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Amidst all the gimmicky design trends and hot looks that last for a month or a season or a year, it’s nice to know that certain visual tricks and designs will never stop catching our eye. Print Mag has done a bang-up job chronicling one especially popular design trope’s many iterations in magazine design, album [...]

Getting lost in the pages of a website is one thing, but actually breaking it can be somewhat humiliating, like ending up naked in front of a bunch of webmasters. It feels a little less awkward when those designers take the time to create a nice error page; it’s like crash-landing in a field of [...]

We don’t “heart” the “I Heart NY” shirt because, well, it’s just too popular. Wearing that shirt is like saying you love something that we all love, like air, it’s pointless. Still, whoever came up with the “I Heart ____” tee shirt template must be rolling in dough these days. Or maybe he or she [...]

We claimed we were going to hold off on Halloween-related posts, but with just over a week to go that seems pretty pointless now. Plus, today’s Halloween listicle is really clever and creative, and may have helped us find our costume for this year. Graphic designer Charlene Chua has made a series greeting cards depicting [...]

While we generally find emoticons silly and pointless and another, rather terrifying example of how digital communication is fast reducing our ability to express genuine, complex emotions in actual words (maybe even sentences!), some of them make up for whatever semantic damage they may do with sheer creativity. Such is the case with a small [...]

It’s easy to forget, in these days of handheld devices and interactive, hyper-dynamic web design, that websites were pretty much hideously ugly 10 years ago. Or maybe our aesthetic standards have changed and they actually seemed acceptable at the time. Either way, perusing the Telegraph’s listicle of How 20 Popular Sites Looked When They Launched [...]

Sure, we admit that in this advanced age of corporate synergy and super-sophisticated PR, getting video artists to make ads for giant corporations is a dubious enterprise to be applauding. However, to make it in such a competitive art world and design marketplace one has to, as they say, “pimp the system,” so we applaud [...]

There’s a great deal of perverse pleasure to be taken from ruining the endings of movies. That pleasure is heightened when the film in question takes great pains to provide a twist ending, like, say, Fight Club, Planet of the Apes, Citizen Kane, Soylent Green, Psycho, or the office favorite The Usual Suspects. All these [...]

In the kind of advertising stunt that will instantly win over music nerds everywhere, Beck’s (the beer, not the nerdy musician) commissioned 10 graphic artists to come up with new cover art for 10 albums culled from Pitchfork’s Best Albums of the Decade lists from the last 4 decades. After those images were unveiled, the [...]

We’re always pleased when some graphic designer takes it upon themselves to spruce up the look of an oldie but goodie music album, videogame or film. Today’s re-looking project comes courtesy of designer Huw Gwilliam (aka Littlepixel), whose re-imagined 39 Classic Album Covers as Vintage Penguin Books. Our favorite would have to be this version [...]