Nicky510 – There’s no time to lose!.
The next time I really have to go (i.e. when I’m in a window seat on a flight or traveling to any foreign city) at least I’ll have amusing mental images to entertain me while I search for a bathroom.
Ooh!
:: Snippets that tickle my fancy
I want to hold you book cover [Carlo Giovani]
This book cover is actually entirely digital, which bums me out a little because I would love to track down the nonexistent original and run my fingers over it. Texture and layers, how I love thee!
The colors are fantastic, the textures of the papers are fantastic, the edges and patterns created within each layer are fantastic, and yes, the typography… mmmm! faantastic!
Created by Carlo Giovani. See more at his site.
Day Without Shoes [John Mark Herskind]
This is mouthwateringly gorgeous.
I love how it melds an organic hand-drawn feel with a crisp digital finish, and how the muscles weave in multiple tones below the skin. (I could do without the 2 circles, but I didn’t even notice this quibble until I was already drawn in and drooling!)
Created by John Mark Herskind to raise awareness for TOMS’s A Day Without Shoes.
Learn more at Herskind’s Behance.
Brown Sugar Logo
Look at this gorgeousness!
Oh how that S nestles and curls within the B!
Look at the delicious negative space within! *Happy sigh*
Thought Bubble -> Cloud -> Puddle
This is thoroughly charming. My thought bubbles frequently do strange things, but never quite like this. But the next time they envelop my head, I’m making them melt into a puddle at my feet that I can jump and splash in!
[Shanghai, China, at a store outside Tian Zi Fang]
egopop
Click through and watch the site respond to where your mouse is. Parallax!! I spent far too long moving my mouse back and forth on this site just watching the little creatures shifting around… #easilyamused
Check it out: egopop Creative Studio
Don’t Click It!
A site where navigation is solely powered by mouse movements. No clicking allowed! Great fun, great idea, now go and play!
via PixelsDaily
Terri Movie Poster [Mojo]
This movie poster literally made me squeak “ooh ooh ooh!” Look at the movie title and how it’s integrated into the scene as a table! I love how the poster feels layered but flat at the same time.
designed by Mojo
via The Font Feed
A story. [Jeannette Woitzik]
It’s a strange combination of nostalgia, earthiness, and whimsy. Time stands still. I am very much drawn in.
I am future man! [Little Big Details]
I’m a fan of the blog Little Big Details, a collection of the wonderful little considerate details in user interface design that make a big difference.
Here’s one humorous detail on a Yahoo sign up form…
Instead of an ugly DENIED! statement, you get a little jocular question… they might have to change this when time travel is invented. (Which, recent research has shown is impossible. Sadness.)
But Yahoo! has a sense of humor! Who knew?
via Little Big Details.
Stuck Songs for a Story [Nigel Grimmer]
We’re meaning makers and story tellers.
From the series Be Careful of Things Left Behind by Nigel Grimmer
Spork!!
Dear Fork,
I understand that we haven’t spoken since I ran away with the dish, but I thought you should know that you have a son. His name is spork. He has your hair.
Sincerely,
Spoon
More beautifully letterpressed hilarity by Sapling Press.
text from dearblankpleaseblank.com
via SwissMiss
Humans and Nature as One [JWT for Ford]
Brilliant ad campaign by JWT for Ford Motor Company Brasil and Conservação Internacional “aiming at encouraging and recognizing projects on the protection of nature and biodiversity.”
by JWT
Take a look at JWT’s site as well. (i.e. PLAY with it.) I love the way it works!
Art + Science and The Sublime
When we are most affected by the arts, whether through participation or observation, we experience the sublime…
During these moments, we are not thinking; in fact, we are most empty of our thoughts. All of our attention focuses on the present moment.
Artists and scientists both, that allow themselves to dwell in these moments of mental stillness, often begin to feel a larger interconnection with all things around them—their sense of self begins to fade.
In a very deep sense, creativity and the sublime, through the arts and sometimes through the sciences, act as a gateway towards a depth within ourselves.
- Jeff Lieberman
on Arresting Stillness: A Photographic Art at Integral Life
(click through for the full quote)
Love + Work
When you talk or write or film, you work with the music inside you, the music that formed you. [...] So for this age, for your time, I want you to just think about this: Think about NOT waiting your turn.
Later on…
If you can… fall in love, with the work, with people you work with, with your dreams and their dreams. Whatever it was that got you to this school, don’t let it go. Whatever kept you here, don’t let that go. [...]
And don’t stop. Just hold on… and keep loving what you love…
- Robert Krulwich, Commencement Speech at Berkeley May 7, 2011
Read the full, very worthwhile speech here.
It’s about journalism, but his wisdom applies to all fields (oh! how the working world has changed!) Read and be inspired… And enlightened!
Meat Here
I love word play!
Spotted and taken by P&M Adventures! at the Portland State University Farmer’s Market.
In/significant You
You are 1 person out of 7 billion people
On 1 planet out of 8 planets
In 1 star system out of 100 billion star systems
In 1 galaxy out of 100 billion galaxies
And you are enormously insignificant.
via swissmiss
(Be sure to click through to read the comments. I especially like the first commenter’s point of view.)
Light BLUB! [Pieke Bergmans]
created by Pieke Bergmans
These light blubs (not bulbs!) bring joy to my life. I also enjoy the sound effects they inspire in my head. And yes, they do take the form of blubs and glubs.
You can’t blub and glub without having a corresponding collapse in your body (just like the light blubs).
According to artist Pieke Berman, a light blub “is a light bulb that has gone way out of line.” This is behavior “you wouldn’t expect from such well behaving and reliable little products. Nevertheless, they seem to be enjoying their new free existences.”
La Figa: Visions of Food and Form
The body is art. Food is art.
Who knew that combined, they’d make a landscape,
also art!
It’s beautiful, it’s playful.
Created by Tiberio Simone and Matt Freedman. Learn more at La Figa.
via Brainpickings
(learn much more there as well!)
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