Not design, specifically, but I came across a website showing the work of Yukio Miyamoto.

Holy. Crap.

Those files must make Illustrator crash every 20 seconds.

Sam Wick, aka me, just launched a new site. Check it out:

www.samwick.com

Here are some stills I snagged from Mad Men last week that I’ve been meaning to post. Nothing ever happens in that show, but it sure is beautiful.

via swissmiss

My friend Jeanne, a musician, asked me to help her with her new website. I needed a little break tonight from the other work I’m slaving away on, so I did these quick little monogram studies using pieces of musical notation to form letters. Some of the more interesting ones don’t read well as J.G. (her initials).

I need to find some more well-formed musical notation, too. These pieces were from some free web font since I didn’t want to spend my night looking for a nice one.

Came across this great beer bottle design on NOCOT. Thought I’d share.

From Missouri based designer Samantha Wiley.

I got really excited yesterday when I found out that Alan Ball’s new project was a vampire show for HBO called True Blood… set in New Orleans…. with Anna Paquin. Chances are it will be good, but even if it turned out to be horribly bad, I just can’t pass up a new vampire series. 

And here’s the new title sequence from Digital Kitchen. It’s the usual from them: moody imagery, relevant music selection, etc. The part I really like is when they show off the logotype.

and here’s the full sequence for your viewing pleasure—True Blood.

I think we’ll all be expecting a monograph from the Obama design team. This video showed up on the Denver air waves the week of the convention. Appropriately, it uses a song by The National called “Fake Empire”.

enjoy.

Hope

Thought I’d post some pics from the preview party last night at the Academy of Sciences. We did all the exhibition graphics on the main floor. The east side is pretty much complete, while the west still has a way to go. Some of the coolest looking stuff is the big background images that were printed directly onto plywood. Gives everything a warm feel. It’s been a great project to be a part of.

I’ll post some more photos soon… I seem to be having trouble with the upload.

Cheers,

Talin