Typographic experimentation

This morning I attended a workshop on typography, as part of AIGA Boston's celebration of its 25 years. The instructor was Michelle Bowers, a very talented designer, who does fantastic typography work. You can see her work here, and below are the images that I created during the workshop. It was a lot of fun!

Polish posters

Here is a gallery of some of my favorite Polish posters. The designer, Franciszek Starowieyski, died last week. He was one of the masters of the great postwar Polish poster school

Interesting photographic experiment - Experimento fotográfico interesante

Here is a link to a very interesting experiment. Place your cursor at the top of the photo. You will notice it is 6:10 PM. Bring the mouse down slowly over the photo without pressing any button. Watch how night time appears, the lights come on, and at 7:40 PM, it's dark! 

Este es un experimento muy interesante. Coloca el cursor sobre la parte superior de la fotografía. El cursor dirá que son las 6:10 PM. Lentamente mueve el cursor hacia abajo sobre la foto, si presionar ningún botón, y observa cómo se hace de noche en la foto!

Redesign does not always mean improvement - Rediseño no siempre significa mejoría

When a company decides to go through a redesign of their logo, it is usually done for an improvement. This is not the case of the logo redesign for Blimpie. Here you can see how they changed a logo that was at least playful for an insipid use of the font Futura Extra Bold.

Casi siempre cuando una empresa decide hacer un rediseño de su identidad es con el objetivo de mejorarlo. No ha sido ese el caso de la compañia de sandwishes Blimpie, que recientemente hizo un rediseño de su logo para usar únicamente el nombre Blimpie en la tipografía Futura Extra Bold. Un cambio desafortunado.

Beautiful Book Covers - Bellas Portadas de Libros

Penguin re-published the James Bond novels with a beautiful redesign of the cover. See the artist's blog here and the covers here.

La editorial Penguin re-publicó las novelas de James Bond con nuevas, muy bellas portadas, diseñadas por este artista. Aquí puedes ver las portadas.

Shigeo Fukuda RIP

I just read the news that Shigeo Fukuda passed away on Sunday, January 11, 2009. He was 76 years old.

Fukuda was a very important figure of the Japanese and International design community. His work is full of poetry and discovery. He was, is, and will always be a good inspiration for designers and artists. Rest in peace, dear maestro.

Here are are some of his posters

The Ultimate Fight!!!!!