Archive for the Inspiration Category
Two Minutes into the Futura
February 3, 2012 | No Comments | View
Hard to believe it’s been at least 556,188 minutes since we talked directly about a type design here. That’s far too long, considering one of us’ll mutter something about it at least every 5.56188 minutes in our real space. So let’s get back to it, whaddya say? Forget about Helvetica and Comic Sans for a [...]
Instagr/am/bient: Stop, Collaborate and Listen
January 20, 2012 | No Comments | View
One of many lessons to be learned from hip-hop (or Kenny Rogers) is that it’s hard to beat a solid collaboration. For us that goes exponential when you make it cross-media, with bonus points if there’s an iPhone involved. So you can imagine what happened when we got ahold of Instagr/am/bient: 25 Sonic Postcards – the [...]
Tags: ambient > instagram > iphone > music
True and Smart Transparency at the CES
January 13, 2012 | No Comments | View
While every organization under the sun has been grappling with either being or appearing transparent, Samsung’s been making it happen in the truest sense. Behold, the best thing we’ve seen out of this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (admittedly from afar), Samsung’s Smart Window: Weird how it makes that town so small, though. Beta? Bugs aside, [...]
Enjoyable Edification
January 6, 2012 | No Comments | View
Resolutions, diets, and ‘new you’ to-dos are all well and good, but instead of more of that, how about we kick off 2012 with 100 of the greatest gig posters of the last 5 years, as curated by the author of The Wall: Modern Day Music Posters, Tom Booth? It’ll be just as good for you – [...]
Vowels, Mind Control, and You
December 9, 2011 | No Comments | View
Any post that opens with “Here’s something you should know about yourself. Vowels control your brain.” is worth your time. It’s actually a long-standing policy here at BZ, but this is the first time it has come into effect. It’s about time. In an era where vowels, the ‘nuclei of syllables’ get cut with [...]
One for the U2 People
December 2, 2011 | No Comments | View
Tempus fugit. U2′s Achtung Baby is now only a year away from buying its own drinks, and part of the party U2′s team is throwing is an image contest/collaboration, inviting artists to submit photographs and artwork ‘which reflects today’s global environment’ in the same spirit that Achtung Baby and its original artwork did way back in [...]
Tags: Achtung Baby > Contest > U2
Drawing an Excellent Conclusion
November 18, 2011 | No Comments | View
The coolest thing we saw all week just so happens to be a great way to start the weekend, and makes us think that Vimeo et al should work a slo-mo button in somewhere: Keep Drawing is a fantastic short from Korean Studio Shelter about drawing – using many, many differently styled drawings to illustrate the depth, [...]
More of This
November 11, 2011 | No Comments | View
Found a whole lot of awesome in one place today over at the Lost Type Co-op , not the least of which is this post about a mural project in the Highlands neighborhood of Louisville, KY. Awesome typefaces, awesome site, awesome organizational model, presumably awesome founders, and the awesome post about an awesome mural using their awesome [...]
Biggie Smalls and Design
November 4, 2011 | No Comments | View
You don’t have to dig too far in our last.fm history to see that we like a little well-placed, well-done hip-hop while we work. The way good hip-hop has its way with words and ideas can be nice and conducive to a good turn of phrase, design, or entire concept in what we do. Besides, [...]
Face to Face and Street Level
October 28, 2011 | No Comments | View
It’s been a crazy good couple of weeks. Lots of good work, good works, and celebrations. We had Tommy Beaver’s Bluezoom tenth last Friday, and now we’re staring Halloween right in its cold, dead eye. And that ain’t all, at all. Tuesday before last (the 18th) (tempus fugit) there was also one of the coolest things [...]
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