Category Archives: design

Star-Crossed Lovers

Fan-made poster for Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love (2000), currently streaming on Netflix if you’re into that sort of thing:

The Wu-Note Project

The Wu-Note Project – Wu-Tang Clan album covers re-imagined in Blue Note Records style.

Redo your iTunes album artwork. You’ll be glad you did.

Related viewing: Project Thirty-Three

The Greatest Map of the United States Ever Made

“David Imus worked alone on his map seven days a week for two full years. Nearly 6,000 hours in total.”  And it’s amazing.

I got mine in the mail today and I couldn’t be more pleased. Recommended.

To Resolve Project

Chris Streger’s To Resolve Project:

“I decided to ask as many talented designers I knew (or didn’t know) to create a resolution for the new year as an iPhone background.”

(Via Coursekit.)

There Are No Clean Getaways

(Via.)

Here’s Some Free Design

(Via Curved White.)

Related viewing: Mike Monteiro’s “Fuck You, Pay Me” talk.

Malcolm X’s Business Card

Business card of Malcolm X found in his pocket after his assassination.

(Via.)

Typographic City Logos

From Albin Holmqvist’s 40-city typographic logo project:

(Via.)

A Brief History of Title Design

This video reminds me of Uncredited: Graphic Design and Opening Titles in Movies, a book I reviewed for Film & History in 2008. The veritable explosion of love for  movies titles online since then (in addition to Art of the Title, there’s The Movie Titles Stills Collection and Steven Hill’s Movie Title Screens Page) warms my heart.

Noir Aesthetics

The Hitch-Hiker

Number fourteen on Where Danger Lives’ marvelous “100 Greatest Posters of Film Noir” list.