- Maira Kalman is back on the NYT (yeah!). “The Inauguration. At Last” is packed with great color, brushwork, and observations.
- The laser-cut grip tape in Core77’s 1-hour design challenge is pretty rad. (Man, how much did I love Powell-Peralta, VSW, and Jim Phillips/Santa Cruz skate art back in the day?)
- Speaking of that, Powell has created The Ripper Art Show, celebrating their most iconic image. (I had a huge poster of it hanging over my bed.) Some 58 artists created their own interpretations. [Via]
- Janine Rewell makes much vectory goodness. (Dig “Helsinki in Berlin.”) [Via]
- Monochrome:
- Having grown up on David Macaulay, I’m a sucker for good B&W detail like that found in this piece from The London Police.
- I love the simplicity of Core77’s welcome from ’08 to ’09.
- Chroma has no place in the new Good Housekeeping logo.
- Is there anything not to like about this animated GIF of a magical little deer? (Answer: no.) [Via]
Hey John! I had no idea you were an old skater. I still own the Ripper deck, though in beat-up condition. Definitely one of my all time favs. Thanks for posting that link. -josh
[Oh yeah, I was way into all the skate aesthetics–really eye-opening for me in a big way. There was just nothing else remotely close in rural Illinois, and I had my whole bedroom door covered in skate stickers.
Unfortunately I’m surreally physically uncoordinated & I kinda hate pain, so I never got good at the actual skating, to say the least. I took photos at events, drew pictures (loving paint-pen recreations on school gear), published a ‘zine–and for all that I got called a “poseur”; painful. I guess “budding designer/photographer” wasn’t really in other 13-year-olds’ lexicons. –J.]
The Ripper was one of my first decks, thanks for the memories, haven’t thought about it in years.
[Yeah, cool design. I went for the classic Roskopp face. –J.]
Your eclectic and all-encompassing design posts are a welcome break in my RSS reader.
[Cool; glad to hear it, and thanks for the encouragement. –J.]