It’s blatantly aimed at the retrofetishists out there who remember buying Kenner action figures off the peg, but I don’t recall having seen shoes in a blisterpack before. More views of the shoes themselves on the Superfly Deluxe site
A fantastic blog centered around the grid in graphic design.
(Found via Bully.)
I’m taking a train to New York in the morning and won’t be updating as much this week, so here’s a nice photo by my friend Serene.
It varies quite a bit internationally and recently got a remodel that’s in line with current trends (a drop-shadow on the letters with a stroke on the outside) but the bold, simple design of the old-school IGA logo is always going to appeal to me.
Alfio Bonnano and Christophe Cornubert have created an eyecatching piece of public art for this week’s discussions in Copenhagen.
Fantastic artifacts from an Australian film studio that never existed.
Book City Jackets makes attractive dust jackets for books.
Exergian creates print and digital media with style. Please note some material is NSFW.
This refurbished textiles mill has been turned into a spectacularly sleek modern hotel by Jestico + Whiles.
While I really don’t care about the direct-to-DVD DC animated movies, the opening credits of Superman/Batman: Public Enemies are pretty gorgeous.
The typography alone, you guys.
Michael Otero’s got one of the best naturalistic eyes I’ve seen in lately. (Note that some material on his site is NSFW.)
Simon Hattenstone:
Damien Hirst stares into his portrait of a skull. This is the new Damien Hirst – Hirst the solitary painter rather than Hirst the art world’s flamboyant marketing magician. He has painted these pictures with his own hands, rather than employed minions to produce work under his name, as he has done in the past. But, he says, this is also the old Hirst. After all, like most artists, he started out painting rather than conceptualising and mass-producing. “I gave up painting by 16,” he says. “I secretly thought I would have been Rembrandt by then.”
I give him a look. But Rembrandt was a genius?
He shakes his head. “No, I don’t believe in genius. I believe in freedom. I think anyone can do it. Anyone can be like Rembrandt.”
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