My Best Work: Michael Bierut

My Best Work: Michael Bierut

HOW's June 2008 issue marked the debut of a new column called My Best Work. We've asked designers of note to tell us about their favorite, most successful, most memorable or otherwise top-of-the-heap project. For HOW's August 2008 issue, Michael Bierut joins the fun.

bestworkbierut.pdf

Unusually Clever Living Room Furniture

Unusually Clever Living Room Furniture Designs: From Coffin Bookcases to Geek Coffee Tables

Written by Delana on July 26th, 2008
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Funny Blogs

Cake Wrecks: When Professional cakes go horribly, hilariously wrong
http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2008-05-20T13%3A59%3A00-07%3A00&max-results=15

The "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks
http://quotation-marks.blogspot.com/
And all this time I thought I was the only one improper use of quotation marks bothered. Hallelujah! I am not alone!

Spoiler Poster

This is awesome! It's a poster that spoils the end of famous movies. Nice!

http://blog.howdesign.com/Spoilers+Ahead.aspx

www.illustrationclass.com

illustrationclass.com is an awesome resource created by Von Glitschka, an Illustrative Designer and 20 year communication arts veteran, for students and professionals alike who want to incorporate more of their own illustrations into their work. illustrationclass.com is loaded with creative exercises, tutorials, handouts, and all sorts of great illustration related materials to help all levels of designers who want to do more of their own illustrations. Very cool. Check it out =)

I saw Von speak at HOW this year in Boston and he was awesome! His presentation along with all of his materials from HOW are available on illustrationclass.com. It's very cool (not to mention generous) of him to have made this all available for free on his site. I strongly suggest you download it and check it out, great stuff!

How low can you go?

AIGA just sent out the most recent AIGA Design Leaders Confidence Index survey (which I first mentioned in a post back in late January), and it's always a reminder to check the index for the survey taken three months ago. It's 64.06, a new all-time low. But, if others answered the way I did, I think we may have hit the bottom and will be on our way back when the index is next updated... Stay tuned...

Folio Weekly wants you to deface their outdoor news stands

Posted in Folio Weekly:

Folio Weekly is known for exposing the unsightly underbelly of Northeast Florida political life, but that doesn’t mean we don’t want to look good on the outside.

Folio Weekly is currently seeking 10 creative (and local) visual artists to beautify, deface or otherwise adorn some of our outdoor newspaper racks.

The racks will be displayed at the September Art Walk in downtown Jacksonville, as well as at distribution points throughout Northeast Florida for at least a year. Participating artists will also be profiled in our September 16 Fall Arts Preview issue.

Those interested in participating must submit a rough sketch of their design, using our official template, by July 30. Templates may be downloaded at www.folioweekly.com and must be either e-mailed as a JPEG file to coverup@folioweekly.com or snail-mailed to Folio Weekly Coverup, 9456 Philips Highway, Suite 11, Jacksonville, Florida 32256.

So get sketchin'. We're ready for out extreme makeover.

(Also, see Urban Jacksonville's interview with the creator of this project here.)