these make me so happy

security envelope patterns on flickr.

jackpot!

this flickr is pretty much like if someone found a french version of the book thing and proceeded to scan every page of every book with amazing vintage type and illustrations. i am in love.

urbanism in the house

some finnish architect spitting rhymes about la ville radieuse and geodesic domes to house music? yes, please. this is by far the most enjoyable thing i've heard in a long time.

amen, tibor

i wish i had this memorized. so many times when it would be the perfect ammo...

CLEAN

our first assignment for advanced gd was to repackage something. anything. whatever our little hearts desired. the possibilities were pretty much endless = easily overwhelming. but i believe that every problem has an appropriate solution out there just waiting to be found, and that good design brings both together in an elegant way. so when i discovered the organization clean the world, i knew i had found a winner. this group takes leftover hotel soap and shampoo, recycles it through a steaming process, and sends it to haiti. why? because each year more than five million lives in the developing world are lost to diseases like acute respiratory infection and diarrheal disease. most of these deaths could be prevented with access to a simple bar of soap. and because every day in north america, thousands of hotels discard millions of pounds of soap & shampoo, which end up in overflowing landfills. talk about a need meeting an overabundance. to support the amazing work clean the world is already doing and provide them with another prong of attack, i decided to develop a sub-brand of soap to be sold in stores called clean. in the buy one send one style of toms and warby parker, i imagined clean the world partnering with a soap company already in existence for a limited run branded with the clean logo and the promise that for every bar of soap purchased, one would be sent to haiti. hey, in my ideal little world of hypothetical student design projects, it could totally happen...

just because you're 21

doesn't mean you can't still learn a thing or two from children's books... i loved finding this while working on my re-packaging project for soap. a nice breather from the seriousness of the dieline.

monoprix = love

so nice to see a familiar face in the amazing and prolific lettering work of letman.

collection a day

i'm glad i'm not the only one who saves bread bag ties...

a collection a day

i love college

wait. so i actually get to take a class where we talk about the interconnectivity of things in an intelligent way and make art that makes these complex systems visible? is this real life? i love that i can sign up for a sculpture class and not even get an assignment to make anything until week four because we've been busy reading baudrillard, heidegger, bruno latour, and linked. and that perusing websites like visual complexity constitutes "research." mmhm.