“Imagine” is a new Lego campaign by Hamburg advertising agency Jung von Matt. The name alone sets high expectations, but if anyone can invoke the word “imagine” beyond the late John Lennon, it would be a beloved Danish toy company built upon imagination. It’s a series of minimalist Lego designs based upon some of our […]
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He’s Your Man
More Gary Beacom, because this one is as fun as the other. Gary Beacom – I’m Your Man – YouTube.
Posted in Figure Skating
Also tagged boat-rockers, canada-eh, hee-hee, shiny-things, squee, whimsy
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“Boneless” Gary Beacom
I love the Internet. I’d caught this as a kid, and managed to capture it on VHS. I’ve hoarded that tape ever since, assuming the performance would be forever lost to history otherwise, but I didn’t count on the rise of YouTube. I’m not a figure skating fan, mainly because I saw this performance as […]
Posted in Figure Skating
Also tagged boat-rockers, canada-eh, great-ideas, hee-hee, shiny-things, squee, whimsy
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Gorey Messages
I used to be a champion letter-writer back in the day (though in a quantity not quality sense), but never thought about “defacing” my envelopes with art. Too Canadian, I guess. I’m kicking myself for the lost opportunities, now. It’s no secret we’re big fans of Edward Gorey’s, mid-century illustrator of the macabre, whose work […]
Fart Scrolls
I was doing research for another post a while back, and found something a bit…unusual. It was an old Japanese scroll about farting. No, you didn’t misread that last sentence. I’d make a crack* about my own historical research being far less interesting, but I did once read Gargantua and Pantagruel, so I’d be lying. […]
Poetriffiti
I’m no tailor of portmanteaux, sadly, but I love this idea enough to attempt one. (And fail badly.) Scottish artist Robert Montgomery goes about at night illegally plastering over advertisements with posters covered in his poetry. His very pleasing verse is presented in white typography on a black background, screaming out ideas about beauty, consumerism […]
V-Day: Operation Overload
I normally don’t like comics. The ones drawn by capable artists are poorly written. The best written ones look awful. And in almost all cases the story is so inane or introspective it would fail even more horribly as a short story or novel. But even with all these lowering my expectations, I can confidently […]
Posted in Comic Books
Also tagged great-comics, great-ideas, hee-hee, shiny-things, stumbly
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Classic Transit Posters
Salon offers a feature on classic transit posters from Illinois. Some wag with better design skills than I needs to do a modern twist on these for big city subway systems. http://www.salon.com/2012/01/27/posters_that_rival_the_london_underground/singleton/
Lost Type Foundry
This is a great little website for anyone looking for fonts: It’s a pay site with the option for free downloads, but the designers get profits from each sale of their fonts. http://www.losttype.com/browse/
Dancing Books
A nice little viral video, hosted (if not paid for – is this an ad or a public service announcement?) by a Toronto bookstore. I dare you to watch it without smiling. Or wanting to visit!