Interesting project of personifying typefaces that is steeped in its history and our current perspective by Anna Lucylle. Looking forward to more!
(Source: annalucylle.wordpress.com)
I’m sharing this today in an effort to encourage you to just go for what you want. There are always going to be roadblocks in your life. Even if you’re in school for something else, even if you have very little time, even if you have very little money, never let that hold you back. Explore the path you’re interested right now, even if it’s 10 minutes a day. Dream up self-initiated projects and learn all you can — relish your freedom and soak up the inspiration around you. You’ll be that much more prepared when it’s finally time to make your move.
On of my favourite design bloggers on self initated projects. It’s always great to take stock of how far you’ve come!
Name Your Hood
In the past few decades, a multitude of campaigns have flourished that are bringing back the age-old values of the community, creating microcosms of unity within cities and within suburbs. Dividing maps into neighborhoods—places that were already there, but just needed a name and a spot on a map to be externally (and in some cases, internally) established – builds on the reputation and environment that each offers. This provides not just a sense of identity, but assists in the navigation of the city too (think New York, Paris, London etc). In South Africa, Cape Town’s Central Business District is commonly referred to as “Town” or just “the CBD.” There is a lack of identity.
The Name Your Hood (NYH) campaign in South Africa is changing this. From Mouille Point, which borders the Atlantic Sea Board in Cape Town, to Moerat, the newly named Hood in Gugulethu (one of Cape Town’s townships), each neighborhood represents the uniqueness and variety of lifestyles that make up South Africa.
(Source: GOOD)
"Failure more often stems from ineptitude (not properly applying what we know works) rather than ignorance (not knowing what works)."
— Dr. Paul Farmer (founder of Partners in Health), Rebecca Onie and Heidi Behforouz in a recent Stanford Social Innovation Review article.
(Source: GOOD)
An original by one of my favourite YouTubers to start Friday!
Mural “El Maset”.
Look here, an organic food shop can look very stylish too! Barcelona based graphic designer and art director Jordi Rins created these handmade letterings for Mural “El Maset”, an organic food store.
More of the handmade letterings on WE AND THE COLOR
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We share Stuff all the time. We only need one barbecue, one table saw, one lawn mower, one fax and scanner. Because we share so much, we buy and consume and throw away less Stuff. Sure, we save money and conserve resources, but the real benefits are not material.
We share advice. When we face difficult decisions in our personal or professional lives, we have a set of trusted, time-tested life coaches. I had five sets of parents to watch as role models in parenting. We swap services. Someone who is good at baking makes almost all the birthday cakes; another who is handy with a wrench is there in plumbing emergencies. We carpool. We watch each others’ kids. We host parties together, sharing the costs of setup and all pitching in to clean up the next day.
Windows of New York | http://windowsofnewyork.com
“The Windows of New York project is a weekly illustrated fix for an obsession that has increasingly grown in me since chance put me in this town. A product of countless steps of journey through the city streets, this is a collection of windows that somehow have caught my restless eye out from the never-ending buzz of the city. This project is part an ode to architecture and part a self-challenge to never stop looking up.”
José Guizar is a Mexican graphic designer in New York City. Driven by curiosity and a constant desire to learn and evolve –among other more material things, of course–, I’m a devoted pursuer of the well-rounded designer utopia. I strive to create playful, clever, yet strong messages that let others communicate, and let me play entertainer.
Simple but interesting!
