Books of art and design, great inspiration

Here are some examples of beautiful books I bought in the last year. It’s like food for me. I always loved those kinds of inspirational books. So for your creative side of the brain :

• Patterns in Design, Art and Architecture
• Tokyo Girls Bravo 
• Japanese Graphics: Beautiful Streamline

Add comment January 10th, 2008

You Know You’re a Graphic Designer When…

(if you’re the author of this text let me know, a friend sent it to me by email…)

• You find your pulse increase at the sight of a lovely ligature, glasses steam up when an unusually elegant arm, leg, or tail comes in view, and a well-kerned paragraph is apt to make you break into a sweat with excitement.
• You know you’re a Graphic Designer when… you buy a CD or DVD for the artwork, even if you have no idea what the actual music or film is like. (even worse, you don’t actually watch or listen to it, just stare at it for hours and hug it in adoration)
• You watch the superbowl just for the commercials.
• You can spot bad typography from 100 yds away.
• You have an appreciation for everything unique.
• Seeing someone use Lens Flare or Comic Sans adversely affects your blood-pressure
• You maintain a grid system for your refrigerator magnets.
• You organize your CD collection according to the Pantone chart.
• You sit at work for eight hours straight just looking at your monitor, waiting for a spark of inspiration that doesn’t come.
• You’re up ’til 5am because you came up with the best idea ever while brushing your teeth.
• You know Lorem Ipsum by heart.
• Activating your entire font collection makes your computer crash
• You deliberately butcher your perfectly cross browser compatible site in IE by placing a “Too Cool for IE” banner on it.
• You use words about fonts you dislike that other normal people reserve for fascist dictators and serial killers.
• Apple+Z is the first thing that goes through your mind if you drop and break something.
• You know that “bleeding” doesn’t hurt.
• If you could go back in time you wouldn’t go back to see the rise and fall of civilizations, you’d go back in time to destroy comic sans and papyrus.
• You can understand everything on this list.

1 comment July 7th, 2007

Bak Magazine

J’ai eu un coup de foudre pour cette image.

Leur site a l’air tout aussi intéressant : BAK magazine.

Add comment June 15th, 2007

Variation confuse sur un même thème

Add comment May 24th, 2007

Création inspirée du soleil printannier qui abonde à Montréal

Je me remets tranquillement à créer des images, ça fait du bien

2 comments May 21st, 2007

UT, t-shirts, interesting web site and future store

UT will open in 4 days on the web and a new store will open in Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan. The website is really simple for the moment, put it works so well, so many images gives you a good idea how much stock they have produced. OK, it’s only t-shirts, but hey, they are creative.

Add comment April 24th, 2007

Amalia, New York, I love wallpaper

Wallpapers are so trendy. I can’t imagine that in my own flat, because I like more pure and simple designs for myself. But I like the effect of them on walls. This pictures particulary reflect the perfect harmony of the wall and the rest of the room.

More in this month Wallpaper magazine.

2 comments April 24th, 2007

Book : Object that Dreams

This is a fabulous book of Tokyo-based artists Zoren Gold and Minori Murakami. They mixed fashion photography into new collages. The book is available through Die Gestalen web site.

1 comment February 2nd, 2007

Do you like pink?

Today’s pingmag article features an artist (Maurycy Gomulicki) who has been showcasing pink in all sorts of way. Who thought that pink was dead? ^_^
See also the pink blog!

Add comment January 30th, 2007

graphic art. self-portrait. art. art.

Avec un fond hivernal, ma nouvelle couleur fétiche et Belle and Sebastian dans mes speakers…

2 comments January 22nd, 2007