With Bryce Dallas Howard
The colors! Oh the drama!

Yeah... when you read it - looks like it will be SUPER easy to win!
Totally bringing this to his film... via 

Reminds me of the Bingo card I made for the Secret Life of Bees. Did I mention I didn't see the film first?
Everyone was too weepy to play! :(

Please, fonts have feelings too you know! They also have personalities.
(Except for Comic Sans and Papyrus - they are each dumb as bricks).

So what happens when a font gets lonely?

Enter the Type Connection! As her final thesis for a M.F.A. from MICA, Aura Seltzer designed an online dating game for typefaces!

From her site:

Type Connection is an online game that helps users learn how to pair typefaces. Like a conventional dating website, Type Connection presents potential “dates” for well-known, workhorse typefaces. Users are matchmakers. They decide what kind of match to look for by choosing among several strategies for combining typefaces.

Brilliant! The accompanying exhibit is now closed, but the website is still up.
Help out some wanting typefaces!

And here's the story behind the project at Felt & Wire!

And it's in limited quantities!
Font designed by Andrew Clifford Capener.
For $200 buckos here!
Via / link

Still pretty awesome tho!

The setting of this ring was custom made for a customer using our 3Design CAD CAM software and cast in 14k white gold.

If you ask me, she should take a REAL good look at the fiance! You don't wanna get stuck changing oil diapers later on...

Swiped from Geektastic! link

CUPPOW!.

Make ANY jar, into a travel mug!
How awesomely recyclable is this?

Considering I have a stock pile of jam jars... this. is. Genius!
Oh, and how cool is the packaging?




$7.99 here! via

Don't know why it took me so long to post this. I have literally read each of these like, 18,000 times - and repeated them at the most awkward places. (i.e. work, home, meetings, bathroom, to the boss).

Put your neighbor to shame with these Yo Momma's a Shitty Designer printable notepads. The file is 8.5x11 without bleed so print away on any standard printer and then just tear the sheet in half. 

Best one imo? Yo momma's so fat, she thought RGB was a sandwich!
Or .. Yo momma's so lo-res, she can't even save for web!

Btw, there is a call for entries! You got a good one? Share it!

LINK to get yar own!!!!!!  via

Mammamia! Maybe I should have posted these yesterday. MEOW!

From the amazing illustrator Malika Favre! via Zoe-Zoe

Ever have that feeling? When you are redesigning a website, and nothing is looking good and you just start to HATE EVERYTHING ABOUT IT? No? Maybe it's just me.

But I thought I would share some fun linkage for awesome color inspiration at ColourLovers! Users create color palates and share with the group their creations. Sure, it sounds like another Social Media experiment gone awry, but it has a great section of Website Color Trends!

And there goes another 4 hours of my life gone!

While I'm at it, there's also Color Schemer - a palette generator, and Design Seeds - PREEEEETY.

My new favorite blog!
Brickhut.. where movie posters are boiled down to the important bits.
I like to play the game of "Can I guess the movie before I read the title?" Really brilliant design!

I'm sure every can appreciate these :)

From the illustrator, Rami Niemi:

DDB in New York liked some of my stuff, so they asked me to draw a series of posters for Art Directors Club, based on their ideas. These were used for a call-of-entries campaign. What a job! So much fun… man. Thanks to everybody at DDB and ADC.

More at Design Work Life!

This is the most amazing packaging I have ever seen.
Really.
No, seriously.

The Dieline sums it up "Poking fun at himself, The Bitter Chocolatier tells his tales of misfortune throughout his life through the different flavours"

Get it? Cause he's BITTER! and needs Chocolate to get through it! (that last bit might be my interpretation).

Too bad this is student work, cause I would like one of each.... maybe personalized....

via The Dieline

Yeah, not sure I like the "original" claim or that it won't make you go blind.

Nice packaging tho...so I guess I'll post...but, I wonder what the Deliverance locals will think of this. Do they even have internet?

The Original Moonshine site / via

That is some ANGRY packaging!
Hilarious, but the cookie looks like it tastes like pomade and has the density of a hockey puck.
Mmm...delicious.

via Brian! Link

Whooo hoo! My favorite artist Takashi Murakami made today's Summer Solstice Google Doodle!
With oozing saccharine monsters like this, how can you NOT love him?

via Uproxx

via HypeBeast

Oh, and looking for things to do on the Summer Solstice? How about some Naked Hiking on the Appalachian Trail?

For the meat lovers of the world!
Random Lorem Ipsum Generator... For Bacon Lovers!


Here's a quick excerpt:

Shankle drumstick tail corned beef ribeye. Pork chop sausage flank sirloin. Pancetta swine rump, turkey t-bone hamburger shank. Pastrami sausage shoulder, short ribs jerky chuck chicken. Chicken pig pancetta, bresaola corned beef tail meatloaf pork chop sirloin ribeye. Shankle sausage shank beef ribs. Tenderloin venison bresaola, jerky drumstick jowl cow beef ribs pancetta.

Most excellent. Oh, and in case you didn't know... Gangsta Lorem ipsum!

Fight the lactose intolerance!

Dear gawd, this is some funny stuff.
Specially since...oh... about 80% of us are Lactose Retarded!

Awesomeness brought to you by the designer of the famed t-shirt Jill!

50 Reasons Not to Date a Graphic Designer... By A Bourbon for Silvia (aka a Sarcastic Designer Whore who knows us a little TOO well).

Some Favs:
5. They drink and eat all kinds of weird shit just because they like the packaging.
21. You can not decorate the house without consulting them.
32. On vacation they will take you to countries that you do not know exist and have no beach.

via Mark(of course)

(and now some pretty pictures to illustrate my Designer Short Attention Span and quest for pretty things... wha? NUMBER 11 LOOK IT UP)

book covers designs by illustrator Sara Mulvanny / via
DIY Paint-by-Numbers Hex Symbol Coasters!