I saw this “COLD GOODS” mini fridge and I just had to share it. My buddy Jonny bought some cheap and ugly mini fridge on Craigslist and decided to turn it into pretty much the awesomest mini fridge ever made.

I like where this series of simplified insects and bugs based on the golden ratio is going. It’s being made by Graphic Nothing, who describes his own work as “Retro Futuristic Folk Graphics – until that is, I can think of an even more absurd pretentious description.”

Great atmosphere in this typographic polaroid photo by Harpy.

I love the cover for this 1975 Soviet Children’s Encyclopedia. This is “Technics & Manufacture”, there are also images for “Foreign Countries” and “History” thanks to Flickr user TAKECARE.

This is a very nice retro inspired identity system for “The Terry Shop” created by Ed Nacional.

These Travolta graphics by Curtis Wingate just made me laugh. You really can’t get much more awesomeness into an image.

This is nicely put together, I just wish we were actually as united as this print suggests…

It’s a photo of Ernest Hemmingway kicking a can, and probably one of the most poeticly simple and powerful photos I have ever seen.

Nice use of symmetry in this gig poster for Why? (who happens to be my favorite musician as of now).

Andy Kehoe’s illustrations are perfect for Autumn, (via anyways.us).

I had said in my last post that I was posting my favorite work by Mark Weaver, but then he had to go and make this beauty!

Something about this Concorde ticket holder from 1963 just awes me. I can’t remember what my recent ticket holders looked like but I know none of them were this beautiful. That white on black tightly kerned Concorde is perfect, and I love how the lowercase “i” in “airways” is missing the dot so that the even space between the two words isn’t disrupted.

I don’t much about this, other than that it is some kind of diagram, it’s from 1887, and it’s awesome.

Clever and well executed photo by David Skyes, plus I’m a sucker for balloons.

As most people already know, Mark Weaver does a lot of cool stuff, but this is probably my favorite. EDIT: It’s avaliable as a print on his Etsy store.

Pretty sweet cake design, the noisy iphone photo quality only adds to it in my opinion.

I’m tempted to buy this print of a Sarah Watts illustration for an M. Ward show; that elephant is amazing!

This is totally the type of toy I’d want my future kids to have, but $35 is a little steep. Doesn’t look too hard to make though…

Speaking of cameras, how awesome is this Polaroid Swinger? I’d love to have one just to look at.

Golden Porsche Sessions is still churning out mysterious graphics that delight and intrigue me. That font is beautiful!

This is the winner of a logo contest for the Hugo Awards judged by Irene Gallo, Neil Gaiman, and Chip Kidd. This might be one of my favorite logos ever and for some reason I want to describe it as “charming”.

The colors! The pinwheel! The weathered type! What’s not to love about this photo of a drive thru sign for a Charlie’s Mongolian Barbeque taken by designer and photographer Jesse Southerland.

The Moontree Letterpress blog has started up a reader appreciation tradition of giving away a print every Monday. Of course, you have to earn it by doing something like captioning an illustration, or writing a 6 word story based on a theme and replying with your entry in the form of a comment on the blog post. This weeks 6 word story theme is “The Economy“, and so far my favorite is this one:

The contest ends at 10am ET today, so if you missed it be sure to subscribe to the blog so you’re ready for next Monday!

There’s some great stuff in this gallery of posters designed for Flight of the Concords’ Spring 2009 tour.

Great color and texture in this illustration.

Kyle Poff does some nice identity designs.

Love these artistic handmade rugs by Reuber-Henning.

Wow, Hammerpress created this amazing wedding invite, its my personal favorite so far!

I can never get enough hot air balloon things.

Ok, I’m kind of tired of the Venn diagram humor, but this one actually got me to smile.

A nice collection of vintage ads promoting unhealthy medicines.

I like these handmade notebooks with a letterpress graphic on the cover, you can find them on Etsy at the moment.

A dreamy photo by m a r i e.

Erin Hanson leaves colorful reminders around her house for herself.

I want a high quality print on this photo soooo badly, I would even pay money for one if I found it.

It’s a serif slab, get it?

No photoshopping here, this was actually printed on glass and shattered.

Love this vintage pop can, lots more in this set.

Nice photography by David Foster Nass

Love that shape in this design.

Delicious colors in this photo.

The Poster Dezigner does good posters.

Awesome multi-colored tree, even awesomer photo of it.

HUGE collection of vintage travel brochures!

Love the way the type interacts with the enviornment.

Leslie David does good design.

Would love to see more of these Mitten’s Movie Titlers in use.

Nice work by Stas Polykov.

Polatype, a nice little collection of polaroid type photos.

Really nice package design for Rebel Green by Wink.

Clever ad, I hate mangled toast!

I never knew a rat could be this beautiful, it makes me want one. The colors and bokeh on this photo are flawless.

I love the colors in this vintage illustrated ad from a 1960 issue of Fortune.

I wonder what the story is with these central park benches, I guess the fun comes in imagining it.

Fun wood type letterpress print, such a perfect word for playing with wood type.

Very nice logo, these dual image logos are so hard to pull off this well.

Really interesting type design for this building, I love the slim counters and tight kerning.

Really cute illustration based on one of my favorite songs.

The Archer and Gotham typefaces are looking really nice on these hand painted wooden signs. Does anybody know the font on the top sign?

In this photo of Brighton Certified Cold Fur Storage the white type pops against the dark red bricks, and I love the way a script font lies in between the condensed sans serifs. The script font is a nice one and I like the truncated top of the lower-case f.

This Co. (from the words Sacramento Coca-Cola Bottling Co.) is a nice crop because it is still highly recognizable as part of Coca-Cola’s name. The colors in the photo are muted and that gives the lettering a syrupy color that reminds me even more of coke. The little curl of the metal arm that pokes into the sky is similar to the curls in the type, and is a nice way to tie the bottom half and the top half together.

This photo of a word cropped to read as AUTO almost looks like a landscape painting. There are many beautiful layers in the background with the trees, hills, fog, white capped mountain, and intense blue sky. In front of all of it is a bright red and bold word with a natural drop shadow that may be obscuring some natural beauty, but at the same time interacting with nature in a beautiful way.

The lettering on the wall for Ziegfeld Theatre is another one of white text on bricks, but this time the brick is a beige color. You might think this would result in minimal contrast, but in this case the dark sides of the deep extrusion give the letters plenty of contrast while the white on beige scheme evokes classiness. I love the little bird’s nest that seems to be in the bottom of the lowercase f.

The sign for Beauty World is apparently old and falling apart, and you can tell that even in its prime it wasn’t exactly the most beautiful lettering (very strange “A” and “Y”). The inclusion of the old and crusty looking lot really reinforces the sense of irony. However, the double irony in this is that capturing this scene in a nice photo has now brought beauty to it in my opinion.

This photo of a thrift shop’s sign is just really nice to look at. I love the rusty white letters against the vertically striped, faded teal wall. The type is very cute and quirky itself, and I like how the vertically extended letter forms interact with the vertical stripes of the background. I especially love how the counters on the lowercase “f” disappear, the bar on the “t” stretches out over the “h”, and the tail on the “p” goes straight through it.

This 202 address on a house is a stark contrast with the thrift store lettering above. The numbers are very geometric and balanced, the white and the black are both very clean, and the horizontal lines create a grid for the type to sit on. Even the structure of the photo is minimal and clean, whereas the thrift store photo had an odd shadow in the corner, and upper and lower layers peeking in around the main wall. Both do a great job of matching the style of the lettering with the composition of the photo.

The sign for Jellico Motel has those nice generic black letters on white panels and the blue rectangle with the word “restaurant” in white neon lights. It reminds me of countless forgettable motels along the highways in America. The inclusion of the scenery shows how a generic motel sign gets its individuality through it’s surroundings. I love how the foggy background reminds of those early mornings when you are checking out of the motel before most people are even awake because you have an adventure to continue.

Here’s another photo with a sense of irony, the broken down neon letters from Las Vegas that spell out the word “GLAM“. There is nothing glamorous about the discarded and beat-up letters, but perhaps it is an unintentional comment on the effect living the Vegas lifestyle eventually has on people.

I just love this photo of the word “Meetings” for it’s subtle imperfections. The washed out color, the texture on the wall and letters, the erratic paneling on the wall, and the horrible kerning all provide an interesting contrast with the cleanliness and structure usually associated with Helvetica. As a bonus, I didn’t notice until recently that this photo was taken by Antonio of AisleOne. He’s been talking about getting an SLR soon, and I can’t wait to see what he does with that!

These were apparently “luxury” matches and by the looks of them I’m not going to argue.

This was directly linked to the .jpg in the tumblr post, I wish I knew the original source. It’s simple, but dead on.

Interesting type integrated into a nice photo. I want to try this but I never know what words to use.

Ok, this one just made me laugh. How do I join the American Society For Social Hygiene?

Superb minimalism, great natural gradient, and I just love purple-y photos these days.

I think from the comment on the picture that this design is being made with chocolate, but don’t quote me on that. I just think it’s really intricate and something I could never do. (Edit: It’s actually Henna, my first thought but the comments threw me off)

I want that mint green one so bad.

Clever site design with the code appearing to be behind the page.

Great minimal design for this Lennon album.

Reminds me of an asian woodblock print.

I want to go to there



Really impressive stop motion, I love tiny bits of hand cut paper

Nice book cover, intelligent write-up about the book as well

White text on soft colored photographs is so hot right now

Love the beams of light

Interesting combination of two of my favorite fonts

From a nice looking hand crafted Ampersand book

Just made me laugh

Remember, click on the images to be taken to their source. More “Things I liked last week” posts.

I enjoyed clicking through this nice collection of vintage business cards shared by designer Becca Eley (who also happens to have some nice work in her portfolio that is worth checking out). I especially loved the type in the upper image that I posted, which turns out to be a typeface called Treasury.

Via design work life

Francis Qureshi is a photography and graphic design student. I love the mood created by the color in his photos, especially the signs series. So far he only has one example of his design work, but it’s incredible. If this is the early work of a student, I can’t wait to see what he comes up with in the future.

I’m trying something new where every Sunday I will hopefully post a smattering of things that I recently liked, but didn’t want to dedicate an entire post to. Click on the image to go to it’s source.

I really love the colors and type in this old cookbook page scanned in by Pete Ryan.

Urban Spectacles consists of hand carved glasses frames made of wood. The glasses are beautiful and unique, I just wish the photos and website would do them justice.

Via myturtleneck (a very promising newish blog)