world's rarest

I didn't really put this up because of it's design work. I'm just really enjoying the album.

Fabrizio Font

I'm starting to fall in love with these serif fonts that go completely overboard with the width of the stems and hairlines and stuff. Ridiculous. I love it. I rekon the reason I love this kind of thing so much is because at the beginning of the year, when I had NO idea about graphic design, I came up with a typeface that looked like this:

I'm very proud of it, and to this day it is hung on the pinboard in my horrible bedroom in halls that makes me feel like I'm sleeping in a hotel every night. Anyway. I had no idea about graphics that much so I just did what I think would have some kind of impact, and thinned out all the stuff on the left hand side of the letters and hoped for the best. It got some fairly good responses, and since then, I've always been quite fond of similar typefaces. 

And that's why I love Fabrizio. 

KOKONG magazine.

An un-foldable magazine containing illustrations and literature.

I can't say I'm really sure how this un-foldable thing works. Anyway, this is designed by the names listed here:

http://kokongmag.no/

erm, I can't really figure out how to use the website either, I click the triangle in the middle and wait, and nothing happens. argh. Anyway, it seems they go all out in putting together a magazine that can truly be appreciated as a piece of design. It's not in English but I'm still tempted to get hold of a copy, it comes with a limited edition silk-screen print as well. I had a wild guess at the price of the magazine and placed it at about £15, but it turned out to be a more than reasonable 9 euros. Lord knows what they might be talking about though. 

Brock Davis

Was just cruising through Behance Network, as you do. Anyway I found this guy who's made a little project out of producing something creative every day for a year. He's done very well. It's not strictly graphics or anything, more just like 365 ideas. I suppose it can't be that hard to think of something every day, but to actually do it, capture and record it is a feat in itself. Joker. Anyway I had to pick out a funny little set of photos involving M&M's......made me laugh ever so slightly, not a lot, in fact I didn't even laugh, I just smiled because no one was in the room and it's kinda strange laughing when no one's about. Sometimes I can't help laughing on my own if I'm watching something really funny, like Peep Show. Anyways here they are, I ripped the captions from the site aswell, I didn't make them up myself. That'd also be a strange thing to do.

The Simpsons

Burt and Ernie making out while cookie monster watches

the blue man group carving a pumpkin

kermit the frog about to walk across hot coals

papa smurf gets angry, turns into the Hulk.

you'd have to be a total square not to find this slightly entertaining. or maybe i've just got a crap sense of humour. 

Hydro74

My man Luis showed me some wicked prints by Hydro74 that'd he'd bought online. They were actually stunning, I mean like, they were really something special. They made me re-think my life, I mean it was one of them moments where you think, wow, I definitely need to get cracking if I ever want to be someone worth mentioning. 

So naturally, as any good designer would, I went on his website to look at more of his work, and no surprises, a large amount of it was incredibly good. To be honest, I'm not exactly sure where this kind of art/design work sits in society really. The skateboard designs are obviously for skateboards. I guess it's the sort of work that is more often than not simply visually amazing. Maybe it doesn't need a purpose. 

Luxembourg & Dayan

Haven't really looked into that much design of this sort of nature as of yet. I don't really know what style of design you might call it, but what I can tell about it is that it is expensive design, aiming to appeal to an expensive sort of clientele. Hey, you know what, I could try and explain this myself, but it could at any rate be  explained better by doing this:

"Recent exhibitions include historical surveys of important works of major figures in art. Watson & Company, which is branding the new partnership of Daniella Luxembourg and Amalia Dayan, two merger of widely successful art dealers. The solution is the result of combing both the partner’s previous logotypes and colors creating a restrained and classic new brand with a twist."

So yeah. It's classy, and also goes to show how alternative stocks go a long way to how the company may be perceived. It's not genius, but it has been well thought out and immaculately presented.

Get Some

wooooah. need i say more. Well a bit actually, I mean I'm only referring to the type at the top of this poster. I'm kind of a bit too lazy to open up Microsoft Paint and crop out the rest of it, and this way I guess you get to see it in context as well. Magic. 'Get Some' it says. Like, they are really outstanding, and suggest something a cut above the average. It would look ultra refreshing when stuck alongside the surrounding sea of crap posters that appear on advertising boards and stuff. I love it. In fact, I quite like the whole poster. Someone really took a bit of care when they designed it. It's lovely when people take care to do a good job. Lovely.