Kickstarter is an amazing phenomenon isn’t it? It allows brilliant people to bring their ideas to life by raising the funds to make it happen, this example is no exception. The beautiful wrist watch design above called ‘Vuelta’, was created by Leo Padron, founder of the Minneapolis based Padron Watch Company. His passion and knowledge for restoring Swiss and [...]
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I’ve seen a resurgence of some beautifully designed retro art deco fonts lately. Above are a couple that I’ve really taken a liking to, Cassannet (by Josip Kelava) & Metropolis (by atipo.es). They maintain a great classic quality while also feeling nice and fresh. Both terrific fonts for designers who are looking to shake it [...] The Derelicts a short film by eGarage from eGarage on Vimeo. A friend at work passed this well captured and well told documentary vid along to me this morning. The man behind ICON, modern engineeering, classic purposeful design, discusses his love for the “derelict style”. Love the description “time burned, natural finish and patina”. Visiit -> http://icon4x4.com/ Related [...] PRIME from thismustbetheplace on Vimeo. This beautifully captured short documentary left me feeling bit home sick for NYC, and also a lot hungry for a good ol’ fashioned burger. Well worth the view. Notes from Vimeo: “Prime Burger Restaurant, in Midtown Manhattan. For many of the guys that work here, the restaurant is like a second home – [...] Tumblr has become such an amazingly vast archive of people’s interests, I never know what I’ll discover on my dashboard. Being a car guy, and a fan of all things obscure and retro, I’m having a lot of fun with antiquegleam.tumblr.com. Lot’s of old forgotten automobile designs, ads and odd captures of the classics in [...] When I was in school I thought my typography teacher was pure evil for having us hand letter the alphabet over and over until we got our kerning and serifs perfectly nailed down. Years later, I now understand and greatly appreciate what he was teaching us. Brooklyn based designer Dana Tanamachi has a collection of [...] Today I stopped in and took some pics of the newest retail addition to Seattle’s downtown shopping district, ‘All Saints Co.’ (based out of London). Aside from the nice retro typography, fluid branding and tall windows impressively stacked floor to ceiling with vintage sewing machines, I was also pretty excited to see iPads spotted throughout [...] If you have a second to spare today and you enjoy retro-classic illustration and typography, you should check out Belgium based designer Veerle Pieters’s ‘inspiration stream’. She’s taken the time to curate a nice collection of retro-kitche works by various designers and artists. Her entire site is a great place to click around for inspiration. View [...] Emigre has released it’s ‘Emigre No. 70′ issue that they are calling ‘the Look Back Issue’ celebrating 25 years of superb font creation. From what I’ve seen on type blog ‘ilovetypography’ the spreads are vivid, inspiring and full of classic Emigre fonts. A nice book to have around the house or studio. You can find [...] If your life has become as surreal as mine has lately, then you may need a dose of something so obscurely potent that it may cause your reality to jump the rail a bit and send you down a better track. Or maybe you just enjoy the digitally delicious and crunchy sounds of 8 bit [...] Colosseo: Reimagining the Roman Coliseum with type (Canon 7D) from Cameron Moll on Vimeo. Shot with a Canon 7D, Cameron Moll nicely documents his painstakingly precise type rendering of the Ancient Roman Coliseum, ‘Colosseo’. Using a classic Vandercook press he discusses the detailed preparation involved as well as the need for quality hand craftsmanship and the [...] Rolls-Royce GHOST – World Premiere from 12FRAMES on Vimeo. As a bit of contrast to the previous ‘Logorama’ post… I really enjoy seeing classic brands embrace new ideas and re-emerge in ways that remind us all why they became classics in the first place. Rolls-Royce was obviously going for a very fresh, refined and high-tech vibe in [...] The classic Polaroid self-developing film camera is back with their soon to be released ‘One Pic1000′ instant camera. Since 2007 many loyal Polaroid enthusiasts have been hoping this re-launch would occur. The company plans to release multiple retro-chic designs and has even announced that pop star lady gaga will be the creative director for a [...] I’m very into the work by by Michigan based design duo Laura and Eric of ’64 Colors’. The work is so well done that it almost looks as if it had been sitting in your ex-roommate’s brother’s hairstylist’s elderly uncle from Hong Kong’s basement suffering from water damage for the last 48 years. The line [...] |
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