Typography and all kinds of design.
July 20th, 2010
Why not steal the whole definition from Wikipedia and go straight to some great examples instead? “Reverse graffiti, also known as clean tagging, dust tagging, grime writing or clean advertising, is a method of creating temporary images on walls or other surfaces by removing dirt from a surface.”
There you go. Let’s look at some pictures then.
Find out more: Paul Curtis (Moose), Symbollix and Dirty Art Car Gallery.
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Images borrowed from inhabitat.com.
July 18th, 2010
I hope you haven’t missed that Grain & Gram wrote a new article? This time they visited printmaker Nick Sambrato and his printshop Mama’s Sauce (you can actually follow them on Twitter — @mamassauce). And they added a film and some more photos than the did in the last feature. Awesome stuff. You can find the article at grainandgram.com/nicksambrato. I’ll post the film right here though. And I know you’ll ask — the song is made by Devendra Banhart and is called 16th and Valencia Roxy Music. You can watch the video below or click this Vimeo link.
July 17th, 2010
Oh, how beautiful is this music video? It is so serene and it feels so zen. The song is called Ljósið (which means Light) by Ólafur Arnalds. Directed by Esteban Diácono.
July 15th, 2010
Pentragram has made the branding of USA’s bid for FIFA World Cup 2018 or 2022. And it looks really neat with big, colorful type and the slogan The Game Is In Us (US). As they put it themselves: “The campaign centers on a phrase, “The Game is in US,” and utilizes a custom-designed typeface called Game and bold color palette to convey the unmatched enthusiasm and amazing diversity of soccer fans in the US.”
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Images and info from pentagram.com.
July 14th, 2010
Love this poster by Jude Landry, Assistant Professor of Art at Mississippi State University. It has got such lightness and precision. He made it when they invited Jessica Hische to do a lecture and lettering demo. “The large letter J was inspired by her daily drop caps. We printed it with a silver spot color on fudge brown paper.”
He has designed several other great-looking posters aswell. Please check out his site and his work at judelandry.com.