Saturday Morning Animation – Sintel
Made with Blender, the open-source 3-D creation suite. Worth watching full screen over at YouTube.
Adrian Tomine Poster for Skylight Books
I love this poster that Adrian Tomine did for Los Angeles book seller Skylight Books. You can try your hand at winning one of ten if you are so inclined.
(via OMG Posters)
New GAP Logo
GAP has decided to redesign their logo:
Well, that didn’t turn out well. This looks like it was designed by a corporate committee. “Hey, Helvetica is still hot, right? Use that. And, hey, tack on a blue box somewhere so that people can still relate to the old logo. OK, gotta go play golf!”
Really bad.
Too easy.
Fujifilm FinePix x100 Digital Camera
I am speechless. No, not really because I am about to go on. Take a look at the upcoming Fujifilm FinePix x100 digital camera (expected release: early 2011). Wow. Did the designers get this right? Yes. They did. Even down to the screw hole in the trigger button that accepts an old school cable release! Amazing.
My second thought after “WOW!” was that of of disappointment in that it has a fixed 23mm (135 equivalent: 35mm) f2 prime lens meaning that you can’t zoom or change the lens. I am over that disappointment remembering that sometimes the limitations of some things is what makes them great. Everything else that they thought of will make up for that (and the lens sounds super anyway). Like a large CMOS sensor. Solid metal top controls. A hybrid viewfinder and a small built-in flash as well as a full TTL hot shoe. Fuji GETS IT.
I just bought a new Olympus Pen E-P2 and I really like it despite it is missing a couple of features that I am baffled that they left off (built-in flash and built-in viewfinder). I do love that I can use my Voigtlander lenses on it though. HOWEVER, if the fine people at Fuji would like me to be a tester for what I think could be the camera to watch in 2011, hey, it is the least I could do. SEND ME ONE! Pretty please? Seriously, anyone know anyone at Fuji? Anyone?
*tap tap* This thing on…?
Saturday Morning Animation – Logorama
Been around a while but worth a rewatch. (There are swears. Just sayin’.)
Legacy of Letters
With so much done on computers these days, it sure is lovely to see someone so masterful at doing something by hand.
Saturday Morning Animation – MARS
Alien Vs. Predator Skate Deck
This is a skate deck really tickles me.
Wait, that didn’t sound right.
This is a skate deck I can really get behind.
No, that’s not right either.
Never mind.
(Thanks, Andy!)
Letterpress Birth Announcement by Ty Mattson
An simply stunning letterpress design from Ty Mattson beautifully designed and executed. Seriously. Everyone else can go home now.
Printed by the always amazing Studio on Fire. (Check out their blog Beast Pieces to see what I am talking about.)
A Tiny Apartment Transforms into 24 Rooms
I don’t know about the orange windows but, otherwise, pretty fantastic.
Johnny Lee demos Wii Remote hacks
Johnny Lee is brilliant.
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