Archive for the Street Level Category
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 [...]
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 [...]
One More for the Map Types
August 26, 2011 | No Comments | View
We’re no strangers to enjoying a good typographic map, so when we saw these fresh transit maps from Fadeout Design, we didn’t hesitate to start down the posting path. Outlining the transit systems for Boston, Chicago, NYC, San Francisco, and Washington DC, the TRNSPRTNATION poster series presents the station names and route shapes, directions, and orientation in [...]
Tune in to The Pursuit of (Cool)
July 15, 2011 | No Comments | View
“Cool over the past five years has changed… integrity is back in style.” – Nail on the head, and refreshingly so, right? R+I Creative (the team that brought us the requisite and excellent Influencers) has given us all a new short series to love: The Pursuit of (Cool). Just like Influencers, it’s right on the mark [...]
Right Stride Rite
April 28, 2011 | No Comments | View
It was just a week shy of a year ago that we watched and listened in awe as Nike + W+K Tokyo transformed the then-new Nike Free Run+ shoes into audio controllers (and then made them sound great). With their latest, equally completely excellent endeavor, Nike keeps its pace but switches tracks, teaming up with [...]
Treasure Trove: Vintage Matchbox Labels
December 9, 2010 | No Comments | View
After last week’s thinking about thinking about thinking (that we’re still thinking about), we were thinking a return to browsing some great designs of yore would not only please your prefrontal cortex, but feel right to your deeper processes as well. With that, we point you towards a vast, wonderful collection of matchbox labels spanning [...]
Tags: print > treasure
Informed, Inspired, & Influenced: Influencers Short Film
November 4, 2010 | Comments Off | View
Andy Warhol. Jay-Z. Both MJs. Steve Jobs. Basquiat. Obama. Shepard Fairey. Ali. The Beatles. Picasso. Paul Newman. Marilyn Monroe. Gandhi. Biggie Smalls. Ramones. Run DMC. Steve McQueen. Einstein. << Those are just a handful of the reasons Influencers may be of the best 13:55 of video you’ll ever watch. Throwing a party with those luminaries [...]
Tags: music > philosophy
Street Level and Rising: Dulux Let’s Colour
October 21, 2010 | 1 Comment | View
“If your world was all black and if your world was all white, then you wouldn’t get much color out of life now right?” – {If you need to Google that quote, then you should definitely Google that quote. You’ll be in for a treat.} When it comes to the Aluminum/Aluminium spelling quarrel, after you [...]
Be Inspired: New Type York
September 23, 2010 | No Comments | View
This sounds kind of dumb to say, but language and communication is effing amazing when you take a quiet minute to think about it: sounds and symbols that allow an idea from one person’s mind to enter the mind of someone else. Dang. How many times as a kid did you furrow your brow and [...]
Tags: fonts
Protect Ya Neck <- And Know Ya Rig
August 26, 2010 | No Comments | View
By now you might be picking up that we have a penchant for live, street-level musical performance. Full disclosure: we just fully realized it ourselves. So here’s our latest fixation along those lines: This quick little glimmer in the turbid shallows of YouTube caught our eye earlier this week (thanks Alex!) and has clearly stuck [...]
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