A collection of old-school circus posters. Keep your hand on the volume as you enter, there’s also an old-school barker announcing all the goods. I like how the colors can be so clean and vibrant, despite what seems like a universal beige wash.
Category: design
These three photos for the Wonderbra campaign over in Europe earned the top Epica Awards for fashion print materials. And rightly so. The lighting alone is amazing. Great expressions. [via… somewhere i can’t recall…]
Truth in Advertising, a 12-minute film about the dysfunctional, corrupt world of corporate advertising, though the parable could really cut across any kind of office or industry. (nsfw)
Prog Rock. One of my favorites from the past couple weeks of Prom Night Fist Fight.
Ah, nothing like a comforting spray of clam chowder. [via blankenship]
Here’s a great essay exploring the connections between comics, games, and world-building.
Perhaps when we find ourselves disturbed or bewildered by the popularity of a new genre or medium, itÄôs precisely by giving it that “serious consideration” that we will begin to get to grips with what it is and how it works. But how do we do this, when the new work often seems to have so little to do with our existing aesthetic criteria?
Austin Kleon has drawn up a cool mind map about comics and information design. Apparently he’ll be working on a thesis on some aspect of the relationship between the two. Cool.
Heavy Water, a collection of crisp, detailed illustrations about water and architecture and stuff.
FedEx doesn’t want to ship contents labeled as “rocket fuel”. The containersÄìamong them Rocket Fuel, Neon, Nitrogen, and even CertaintyÄìwere phony package design samples for the Greenwood Space Travel Supply Company, but still too borderline to get shipped.
An brief interview with Ellen Lupton, whose book Thinking with Type I enjoyed very much. “Today, to be literate involves not only reading/receiving, but also making/producing in a range of media. ItÄôs not enough to be in the audience any more.”
The Central Division of the Los Angeles Police Department keeps a weekly map of the downtown homeless population. I wonder what data they are gathering besides headcounts. I’d love to see this map cross-referenced with the weekly crime stats, weather, events, etc.
From the Free Font Manifesto: “Most typefaces created in the free font movement are designed to serve relatively small or underserved linguistic communities. They have an explicit social purpose, and they are intended to offer the world not a luxurious outpouring of typographic variation but rather the basics for maintaining literacy and communication within a society.”
The Bubble Project puts comics-style bubbles on street ads for passers-by to fill in.
More Tufte
Yeah, that Beautiful Evidence was something. Here’s some related material for you:
-I also liked Derek Miller’s review of BE
-The kind folks at 37 Signals report on a Tufte seminar they attended
-Here’s an interview with Tufte on NPR [via kottke]
-Tufte’s infamous essay, PowerPoint is Evil
-And Scott Rosenburg‘s profile of Tufte over at Salon
Mark Larson 
