Category: Design

Bye bye Emigre… [Link]

Back in May I posted about the new BBK logo but I didn’t know who had designed it. Well today John Avery commented on that old post and it turns out the logo was designed by his agency, Financial Design in the UK in collaboration with their associates in Bahrain, Vision. Mystery solved.

Eric Spiekermann designer of my second favorite typeface Meta has a fucking blog! Most of his posts are posted in German and English which makes things easy for me since I neither speak nor read German. My favorite typeface is Frutiger by the way which was designed by Adrian Frutiger. A good friend of mine was very lucky to have met him at a design conference. When he was introduced to Adrian Frutiger he told him that Frutiger was his favorite typeface, Adrian replied asking him at what point size, my friend replied saying 9 ofcourse.

Anyway here is Eric’s blog. [Link]

Comparing my ad agencies office to Widen + Kennedy’s office is so fucking sad. Why can’t I work in a place like that! I want a bigger desk! Lots of pictures after the jump [Link]

I just realized that Evolt redesigned their website. I stopped checking the site in the summer because it wasn’t being updated due to the redesign but now 5 months later the site is back up but I really hate the new look. The old design looked way better in my opinion plus the articles were much easier to read. Luckily I am not the only one who hates their new design and many users have left their feedback on this issue. Hopefully they will read them and fix things up. [Link]

What the fuck happened to B&O?? This has to be the ugliest and least practical item designed by them ever. Its fugly! [Link]

A nice collection of Motel Signs from various parts of the US. I always wanted to stay at a Motel for some reason but I never got the chance, I guess since you see it so much in the movies and we really don’t have any similar places in Kuwait it becomes like something you can’t have which makes you want it more. [Link]

The Design Encyclopedia is a growing, collaborative resource that describes, tracks and explains culture, commerce, politics, media, sports, brands – everything possible, really – through design. [Link]

This is a cool mac app I just downloaded. The application is called Comic Life and allows you to easily create comics using your pictures and text. Its VERY EASY to use and has numerous options for a variety of layouts and balloons. I was easily able to create a stupid but really cool looking comic in like less then a minute since it automatically loaded up my iPhoto pictures automatically in the sidebar and allowed me to just drag and drop images into the layout. You can download it and try it and its only 4MB. [Link]

I was a bit hesitant to check the Leo Burnett flash site out after seeing it on Waxy since I really really hate flash sites. I clicked on the link though and I have to say this is the best flash site ever. [Link]

I am currently updating the website’s theme slightly. If things look a bit off its because its not final yet.

Found this really cool graphic novel for the PSP. Issue 1 is already out and Issue 2 should be coming out this month. [Link]

I.D. has the results of the 2005 Annual Design Review, America’s largest and most prestigious juried design competition. The categories of this year’s best designs are: consumer products, graphics, packaging, environments, furniture, equipment, concepts and interactive. To see the winners click here.

This is such a cool idea, the BBDO ad agency proposed to protrude fake arms and legs the trunks of taxicabs — right next to bumper stickers hyping the new season of the HBO megahit The Sopranos. HBO though refused to run this promotion but are now considering it to hawk the show’s sixth season. [via]

Has anyone noticed these signs on the sea side? They are huge, bulky, ugly and unpractical. They are hard to read, its only in Arabic, and the most important information which is the logos of the restaurants are too tiny to be noticed. I am also sure its impossible to read the sign at night. Who is responsible for approving this crap? I am guessing its the same people who authorized the construction of a tall building to block the Scientific Center.