MetaFilter posts tagged with design and graphics

Somethin' New From Chemistry

mattdidthat — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:59:59 -0800

Graphic Concrete is a process with which textures, patterns, typography, images, or works of art can be "printed" on concrete surfaces, with subtle and dramatic results. Invented by Finnish designer and architect Samuli Naamanka, Graphic Concrete is being used in projects all over the globe.

Poster design and The Beggarstaffs

Brandon Blatcher — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:57:06 -0800

"Pryde and I came across it one day in an old stable, on a sack of fodder. It is a good, hearty, old English name, and it appealed to us, so we adopted it immediately." That's how The Beggarstaffs, a short lived but influential paring of graphic designers, got their name. The Beggarstaffs were William Nicholson and James Pryde, brothers-in-law who wanted to use their artist talents to get rich at commerical art to fund their private art. While their grand plans for making money didn't work out, they did create some groundbreaking images as J & W Beggarstaff, such The Beefeater, Don Quixote, Kassam Corn Flour, Rowntree's Elect Cocoa, Pantomime Poster and A Trip to Chinatown After the duo professionally went their ways, both continued working in the arts. Nichlson returned to printmaking, creating the Nicholson Alphabet, An Almanac of 12 sports, a poster of Sarah Bernhardt and various other prints. Pryde returned to painting and did a series of paintings known as the Human Comedy. He sometimes was an actor and set designer, including the designs for Paul Robeson's Othello run at the Savoy Theatre.

You've Been Served

netbros — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:43:43 -0800

The Served is a family of sites that brings you a steady supply of top quality creative work in specific categories: Fashion, Industrial Design, Photography [some nsfw], Typography, and Motion Graphics. All projects are streamed directly from the owner's portfolios in the Behance Network, along with proper attribution and a direct link to contact information.

Clever clever logo logo

maudlin — Mon, 18 May 2009 11:26:06 -0800

You may have already noticed some of the visual tricks in these logos. Or maybe not. (I never saw the b--- in the T-------- logo before.) Or maybe you just think these are too obvious for words and there are much better examples out there. (via)

Moops Grawfucks and Interaccidents

carsonb — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:08:30 -0800

We've very much enjoyed the beautiful work of the NYT graphic and infovisual design staff bef ore, but what about when those glorious graphs and interactive adventures don't turn out as expected? Still pretty neat.

interactive feature highlights

krautland — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 11:50:15 -0800

Journalism may be going through a painful period but thanks to the web the once lowly information graphic is finally growing up to be all it never could on paper. Especially the New York Times seems to currently stand out in how frequently and quickly they build amazingly detailed and insightful interactive features. Consider the tracking of US Airways Flight 1549 or the piece on raising its engine from the Hudson. Other recent highlights: 9,955,441 parking tickets issues in NYC mapped by street, The Ebb and Flow of Movies: Box Office Receipts 1986 — 2008, Ansel Adams's Yosemite, the view from the 10-meter platform explained, A look at the language of presidential inaugural addresses 1789 to the Present, A Map of the number of medals that countries won in summer Olympic Games, Going to the End of the Line, The 44 Places to go in 2009, an explanation of how the Pentagon responded to criticism of then-Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, The Soyuz Spacecraft, How the Towers Stood and Fell and many, many, more. I am of course aware that it's not just the NYT that's doing great interactive work these days. one example I particularly like is the Los Angeles County Homicide Map but they closed down the accompanying blog. please do feel free to add more great examples. I'm merely trying to get the ball rolling.

Queens of InfoVis

AceRock — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 11:02:19 -0800

Ever see an awesome graphic or visualization in the New York Times and wonder who did it? Chances are it's either Amanda Cox or Megan Jaegerman. More highlights... Amanda Cox Oil Prices Reach a Symbolic Mark All of Inflation's Little Parts The Ebb and Flow of Movies Megan Jaegerman Spotting a Hidden Handgun The Jumping Off Points: Moves that will be made in Free Skating Programs From Mantauk to Cape May: The State of Beaches Forest Field Guide Playing Cornerback: Cover to Cover Much more here.

business card designs

Armitage Shanks — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:17:34 -0800

More cool business card designs. (Previously.)

Blue Vertigo - resources for web design

Gyan — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 23:53:37 -0800

Blue Vertigo | Web Design Resource Links

Visualizing your email as microbes.

Rumple — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:44:10 -0800

It's not a bug, it's a feature: Carolin Horn has designed Anymails, which represents your email messages and folders as micro-organisms. The morphology of the individual organisms and their behaviour within colonies imparts information about the state of your email. You can view QT movies of the application in action (1, 2), download her thesis, and download the Anymails code itself. See some of her other work here (predominantly in German). via Madame Martin, the "French Metafilter".

TypoWiki

amberglow — Tue, 29 May 2007 08:46:31 -0800

Fontfilter -- ever wondered what font a logo uses? Wonder no more. (site's in German but the chart is simple--there's also a reversed one, by font instead of by company)

Rethinking Software Look&Feel

Gyan — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 23:14:35 -0800

Magic Ink - Information Software and the Graphical Interface

Rare elements

fatllama — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 22:24:58 -0800

A periodic table of visualization methods.

3D Teddy

Gator — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 09:21:03 -0800

Teddy: A sketching interface for 3D freeform design (in Java). Noodle around with the online applet (see the tutorial for instructions; there's also a demo in .avi format), or download the program so you can save your creations. An even niftier upgrade is available, SmoothTeddy (.avi demo), but SmoothTeddy doesn't have an online version to play with.

Alvin Lustig

tpl1212 — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 05:21:36 -0800

The Alvin Lustig Archive - "Alvin Lustig's contributions to the design of books and book jackets, magazines, interiors, and textiles as well as his teachings would have made him a credible candidate for the AIGA Lifetime Achievement award when he was alive...Lustig created monuments of ingenuity and objects of aesthetic pleasure." The archive collects over 400 examples of his book, architectural, and ad-design work (see also AIGA's list of Lustig's Top-10 designs). Via HOW magazine...

The 2005 Adobe Design Achievement Awards

tpl1212 — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 12:14:40 -0800

The 2005 Adobe Design Achievement Awards , which "celebrate student achievement that reflects the powerful convergence of technology and creative arts." You can also browse past winners from 2004, 2003, 2002, and 2001 [via]...

This Quantitative Information, it vibrates?

fatllama — Sat, 15 Jan 2005 23:20:28 -0800

A chapter from Edward Tufte's upcoming book is online. [link contains roughly 2.2 MB of scanned images] Tufte, discussed here previously and author of what could be called the Strunk and White for scientists, statisticians, producers and consumers of visual information, takes a stab at a few issues right up the average MeFite's alley: the 9/11 commission report, fraudulent medical studies, and the rather dubious quantitative work of this unfortunate economist/art historian. For the ShillFilter suspicious, check out some of the great threads that haunt his site.

Crappy CNN front page art.

machaus — Sun, 30 Nov 2003 11:19:29 -0800

A collection of the god-awful news-art that CNN churns out for its front page.

Design, illustration and visual story telling

madamjujujive — Fri, 18 Apr 2003 00:12:26 -0800

The Visual Telling of Stories Archive is a database used to train illustrators and designers. It's a deep, rich resource spanning centuries, and a very fun site to explore. I enjoyed puzzle pictures, the section on poses which includes a wife's grateful gestures and the Neapolitan language of gestures, a group of woodcuts of Boccacio's women from 1473, the hidden language of sex, and far too many other things to cite.

Su — Fri, 13 Sep 2002 21:10:05 -0800

Signwave, the creators of Auto-Illustrator, have now released SleepTight. [Press release]

grumblebee — Mon, 10 Dec 2001 09:06:31 -0800

The biggest web design myth is that screen graphics should be 72dpi. Sorry if this counts as a self-link (it's a long discussion that I sparked on a forum devoted to a vector graphics app called Xara), but I thought it might interest designers & programmers here.

gluechunk — Sat, 17 Feb 2001 23:23:16 -0800

From the "When designers grab random images" file: Many Muslim taxi drivers in Seattle are going to refuse to pick up people from a rave tonight. The rave promoters used excerpts from the Koran on the flyer announcing the event. "We had no idea what any of it meant...It looked good on there."

NickBarat — Wed, 15 Nov 2000 09:38:28 -0800

Did anybody else notice that? Speaking on behalf of .com design interns everywhere, there's really no incentive to try and come up with hot graphics - ours is a thankless job. However, there's still no excuse to be completely lame.