Design

Is An Editor-In-Chief Title In Your Future?

Apr. 30, 2013

MinkWell_Glossi

The answer is yes, if you create your magazine on Glossi. Glossi creates a flip-able, page turning experience that looks great on desktop, tablet, or mobile phone. You can create your own magazines, lookbooks, catalogs, gift guides, design layouts, travelogues, how-to-guides, photo journals, fanzines, recipe books … you get the idea. Embed all kinds of media like your pictures, animations, PDF’s, video and audio. Pull it all together with headlines, captions, articles and links. Viola, you’ve just been promoted.

How did I use it? I had just came back from a trip to Australia and wanted to share my musings with friends and family. Rather than just post some pictures to facebook, I created my own glossi called Diorama (see below). The reaction has been outstanding and a dormant title is back in action. Check it out and let me know what you think.

App of the Week

Mar. 28, 2013


One-up all your Instagram-addicted friends with the power of TYPOGRAPHY.

House Industries has just released Photolettering: The App which allows you to add titles to photos from your library and share them to Instagram and Twitter or email them as a postcard to your friends. You can even create custom head shots for your address book.  The app is free on the iTunes App store and comes with three fonts. Up to 20 extra fonts are available for 99 cents each, or $9.99 for all 20.  Go get it and be the first to add “YUM” to the burrito you  just posted on Instagram.

 

 

AIGA/NY Turns 30, Celebrate With A Poster

May. 07, 2012

Party On: To mark their 30th anniversary, the New York City Chapter of AIGA has chosen 30 iconic NYC designers for an edition of 30 posters. Two of my favorite are below by Alexander Isley ( I interned at his studio) and Maira Kalman. The posters are for sale on Etsy. Which is your favorite?

Meet Stampa, Your New Pal for Art

Jan. 17, 2012

Looking for a way to spruce up your home or office? Check out Stampa. This new site, created by Stephanie Pesakoff of Art Department fame, is a carefully filtered presentation of todays top illustrators. Each artist’s work holds court for 4 weeks and new illustrators are introduced each week.

Our favorite part of the site has to be the Artist Information. Besides getting to know where your new hero illustrator went to school, you get a glimpse at a pithy questionnaire they have filled out, complete with doodles and other ramblings. Scroll down to see two that put a smile on our faces.

From Alli Arnold

From Bo Lundberg

Kern This

Oct. 12, 2011

Good nerdy fun.

Try it

Back To The Future: The Weekender

Sep. 30, 2011

Design
Have you seen a poster in your subway station hyping “The Weekender”? It is a new interactive map that lives on the MTA’s website and gives updates about what track work is being done and station closures. There is a great article here detailing the ups and mostly downs of the original 1972 diagrammatic map created by Massimo Vignelli.