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Erik Brandt in Bolivia

Posted by Chris Burns | 11.23.09 | Permalink

Hoootah! Our hero and friend super-designer Erik Brandt is in Bolivia! And you know what that means – lots of typographically amazing photos! Typography is a specialty of the eyes for Herr Brandt, and his camera helps him help us to understand the lovliness of his environment. Explore with me, and him, if you will, a collection of 120+ photographs of graphic design and lettering lovliness from the city of La Paz, Bolivia!
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Advertisements, Black, Blogs, Brand, Burlesque, Celebration, Collection, Color, Curating, Deconstruction, Dirty, Environment, Font, Illustration, Kawaii, Paper, Typography, Under the Influence

Hot Steamy Ligatures

Posted by Chris Burns | 10.05.09 | Permalink

All the noodity of lovely bare-legged type. That’s what nakedtype.com was gonna be all about. Juan Carlos Pagan had an idea for a type foundry exploring the perceived humanistic qualities of letters. If you take a look now by clicking http://nakedtype.com/ you’ll see it’s parked by godaddy. We talkin future baybay! For now, while you wait, there’s several really pretty posters for you to peek at. Each of these in the set is 24″ x 32″ printed on medium-weight bright-white paper.
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Advertisements, Ancient, Arcade, Bad Taste, Bits, Blogs, Brand, Brightness, Celebration, Celebritarianism, Chart, Collection, Color, Identity, Illustration, Kawaii, Museum, Outer Space, Pizza Party

Insanely Kitsch

Posted by Chris Burns | 09.25.09 | Permalink

Oh CRIPES what were they thinking? They were absolute geniuses! That’s what you’re about to say like 50 times in this thread. This is World Famous Design Junkies first big retro thread of kitsch, inside is a collection of items that are not big enough to have their own thread, but much too big 2 b 4gotten. Most or ALL of them were made before the internet age, and are therefor just as good as new. That’s the rules of the internet. Discover for yourselves the wonders of the kitsch design universe.
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3D, Blogs, Celebration, Collaboration, Collection, Color, Distro, Environment, Event, Fashion, Handmade, Internets, Kawaii, Moving Parts, On the Street, Posters, Printing, Screenprinting, Sponsorship, Typography, Wall O Stuff

Crankin’ Minneapolis Wheels All Winter Long

Posted by Chris Burns | 04.08.09 | Permalink

Spring is officially rung in with this year’s “Art Crank” show. It’s a bunch of “affordable artwork” from bike-enthusiast artists from across the city (and the state.) Taking the form of posters, prints, and at least one photo, each work is available in a limited run for a price right around $25 each. See inside for some exhibition photos and full details, including a full participating artist list with webpage links.
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3D, Architecture, Banners, Bits, Black and White, Blogs, Books, Celebration, Celebritarianism, Charts, Collection, Color, Conceptual, Curating, DIY, Degree Project, Destruction, Environment, Event, Experimental, Fashion, Hair, Hand Writing, Handmade, Illustration, Interactive, Internets, Kawaii, Museum, News, On the Street, Painting, Photography, Pizza Party, Policial, Public Space, Sculpture, Signs, Street Art, Street Signs, Typography, Wall O Stuff, Weird

You Must Visit These Fellows if You are in the Local UK Area

Posted by Chris Burns | 02.21.09 | Permalink

Visit them or I will punch you in the nose! This is a conversation had by two fellows that had an amazing idea. Tom & Shaun sittin in yer window, doin all kinds of stuff. For a full week(?) they’ll be sitting in this window display, doing all sorts of stuff via internet users all over the world – telling them what to do! And they aren’t half bad at typography and the like, are they? They’re totally awesome.
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3D, Blogs, DIY, Deconstruction, Handmade, Industrial Design, Interactive, Moving Parts, On the Street, Vehicles, Wood

Woodcar Style

Posted by Chris Burns | 12.10.08 | Permalink

From a collection of photos showing genius bits of industrial design from folks with little or no money, from [Dark Roasted Blend].
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Banners, Blogs, Brand, Celebration, Color, Event, Pizza Party, Policial, RWB, Signature, Typography

Barack Obama is President(ial Elect) of the USA

Posted by Chris Burns | 11.04.08 | Permalink

Barack Obama is the 44th President of the United States of America. Look for this man to continue to be the most well-designed President in history. Not necessarily in the way he does business, but look for his surrounding graphics to be excellent.

UPDATE: Check out http://whitehouse.gov/ and see just what I mean.

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Bad Taste, Blogs, Celebritarianism, Collection, Conceptual, DJUNK, Environment, Glam, Glow in the Dark, I Love Design, Kawaii, Lost in Translation, On the Street, Outer Space, Weird

Lost and Found

Posted by Chris Burns | 10.20.08 | Permalink

This post is constantly updated, as if it were a blog in and of itself. It’s a place for weird design-related stuff that doesn’t really relate to any sort of portfolio or anything like that. Take a peek!
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