Visual Research and Development Center

MAXKERNING

shawn — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:03:58 +0000

I love this site. I love the idea and the execution. Resize the window and watch how awesomely the content adapts. Anyone that knows me knows how much I despise all-flash sites, but this one almost gets a free pass (minus 10 points for not having unique URLs for the links at the top).

Tara Donovan: Material & Form

sonja — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 05:48:58 +0000

And there’s more on Design Observer This artist is crazy and utilizes repetition to create environments.

Signage Install

shawn — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 06:33:32 +0000

A while back I wrote about how I was working with this cool material that you could print and apply to textured surfaces. The first bits of it were just installed and it’s kind of insane how much it ended up as I imagined it in the mock-ups. The stuff really looks great and it’s relatively inexpensive.

The real deal:

The mock-up:

Mad $$$

kate — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:00:29 +0000

Good: The Hidden Cost of War
by goodmagazine

Illustrator Extreme

shawn — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 05:12:50 +0000

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.

I gots mad web presence

sam — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 04:23:36 +0000

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

www.samwick.com

More Mad Men Stills

shawn — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:28:15 +0000

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.

Like Apple Pie

shawn — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:25:53 +0000

via swissmiss

JG

shawn — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 01:35:16 +0000

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.

Thank you, Skymall catalog

sam — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:19:02 +0000