This is great for a person like me, who only ever makes it to the MoMA for openings or special exhibits, and often doesn’t have the time to really take in the breadth of their amazing collection.

See for yourself!

OH YEAH. This is all because of a firm called Stamen Design, which I heard about on some SXSW blog!

via Lovely Package

Thinking back to only a few short months ago when I was much more of a packaging designer, and much less of a Photoshop tool, this is the kind of thing that I was always trying to do. Unfortunately, clients like stupid things like gradients and layered textures and photographs, and don’t seem to understand the simple elegance of epothecary typography.

But Target® gets it!

Obama Mix

Gonna see Z-Trip next week for an event called:  ”Hot off the Obama Honeymoon” @ 103 Harriett!

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

www.samwick.com

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.

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

As a W., myself,  I find it unfortunate that the letter has come to mean one thing. So here’s my own w. Its got nothing to do with that other one.

I’m working on this environmental signage project. It’s a lot of fun, but it’s also a lot of work. I’ve spent the lion’s share of the time developing evacuation maps and other “code” stuff. But still, there’s some cool and fun stuff. For the main building identification, we’re looking at this 3M film that you can print on and then apply to uneven surfaces (brick, concrete, whatever) with a heat gun. It looks awesome.

This is a mockup of how those might work:

And even though the evacuation maps are a total pain the ass, there’s still opportunity for fun info-design-ness and icons and such. This is my icon for fire extinguishers:

Moozler’s album, The Vegetable Garden, was recently released on Templo Sagital Records. The packaging has two illustrations I did almost 4 years ago (I’m happy they finally saw the light of day, thanks Mark). Check it out at:

http://myspace.com/templosagital