This is something I am seeing more and more amongst certain sections of (mostly uneducated) youth population in Spain. As ignorance extends due to cuts in the education budgets, more and more young Spaniards abandon the healthier mediterranean diet we grew up with in favor of the fast food culture reflected in the hollywood movies they consume, which present a shinier, mythical view of the USA where everything and anything is better than what they have or even what they are. Very sad.
One of my favorite animated infographic to-date is the opening sequence of the 2007 film “The Kingdom”. Not only is this infographic fantastically executed, beautifully art directed and articulately animated it also happens to qualify for one of my great, … Continue reading
Remember the post on the Lorem ipsum generator? Well, if you liked that here’s a special treat for ya. Now you can fill your copy blocks with pseudo-hipster mumbo jumbo. Just go to http://hipsteripsum.me/, select your number of paragraphs, choose … Continue reading
When Black September went down, during the Munich Olympics of 1972 my family and I lived ten minutes away from the Olympic city. We’d been living in Munich (or Munchen, the city of Monks) for three years already. I was … Continue reading
Going nuts with conversion formulas trying to translate your designs to responsive formats? Here’s PXtoEM.com The site provides a convenient calculator to convert type measurements, from pixels to ems. Le voila! Your type is ready to stretch and fit whatsoever … Continue reading
“Stalin, first your friend, then your enemy.” Remember the Spanglish IPA beer label I designed? Well, I decided to tell all my home brewer friends that I would design labels for free for any beer that was either kick-ass or … Continue reading
This year my daughter and I decided to crank out a new years greeting based on the famous “goes up to 11″ skit popularized in the 1984 cult movie Spinal Tap. We thought you’d get a laugh out of it. Enjoy.
Anybody else sick of all this Trajan? What is Trajan? Trajan is the movie font. Kirby Ferguson releases a brilliant piece on the font everyone uses in movies these days. From Kirby’s Goodiebag series.