Modern day dame and graphic designer who loves books, paper, samova tea, fine jazz and some good telly quotes.
Spread from Paul Rand’s Sparkle and Spin (1957), one of 5 (mostly) vintage children’s books by iconic graphic designers.
Information designer Peter Ørntoft illustrates a ranked list of social concerns in Denmark in this ingenious infographic from Visual Storytelling.
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” Cicero’s timeless words in a typographic print, reminiscent of the lovely Live Now project.
I don’t give a damn if the client thinks it’s worth anything, or whether it IS worth anything — it’s worth it to me. It’s the way I wanna live my life. I wanna make beautiful things, even if nobody cares.
The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads.
Großartig: Fotoserie »Deutschland macht Pause« von Frank Schinski heute im Chancen-Teil der ZEIT. Die drei tollen Fotoseiten erzählen kleine große Geschichten von Pausen verschiedenster Menschen. Weitere Motive zeigt die ZEIT unter www.zeit.de/pause … Aber schaut euch die Bilder unbedingt in groß auf Papier an!
Salve! Das großartige Projekt Zeitsprung von Alex Rutz holt »Weimar aus der Vergangenheit in die Gegenwart […] (Oder anders herum.)«Für alle Freunde der Klassiker- und Bauhaus-Stadt eine Freude. Dankeschön, Alex.
»Mad Men is a series in which an episode’s most memorable scene can be a single shot of a woman at the end of her day, rubbing the sore shoulder where a bra strap has been digging in. There’s really nothing else like it on television.«
© Photographs: Annie Leibowitz
Dear Clint Eastwood, thanks for bringing e/motion and jazz to the world.
Clint Eastwood with son, Happy Father’s Day
I love Zim & Zou’s great paper art photography graphic style. They did it again: Their project »Back to basics« shows beautiful classic gadgets—made of paper. It took them a year so take a moment to check it out. Great work!
There are more amazing paper works to explore like this one called »Please Recycle«.
Affairshirts – Love Your Shirt.
I once designed a whole world of shirts with movie couples. For instance this one with Charlotte & Bob—referencing the lovely Lost in Translation by the talented Sofia Coppola. The shop is still online. If you like one? Maybe I should upload all the other pair shirts I had prepared back then?

A good read! Massimo Vignelli reflects on design:
Download The Vignelli Canon (PDF 2008)
»This digital edition has been conceived as a book that could be reached directly by downloading it to your computer, making it available to the whole world, bypassing the problems caused by traditional distribution. Divided in two sections, Intangible issues and Tangible issues, the book describes the basic rules of our work.«