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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’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 [...]

Remember those really crazy but incredibly effective anti-smoking TV commercials for Truth? Well, since they’ve fallen off our radar it seems like every other anti-smoking group has moved into similarly clever and creative advertising strategies. After all, competing with tobacco companies for people’s attention is no small task, but we’re continually impressed with campaigns like [...]

When describing our process in interviews and lectures (which we’re constantly giving because, you know, we got it like that), we tend to describe ourselves as versatile over-workers who are slightly neurotic and occasionally derivative. In so doing, we would be checking off a third of the options on Olly Moss’s visual listicle of 12 [...]

As several past lists have proven, making a decent album cover is about as challenging as making a good album. Even worse, if you make a really good album cover you can make people forget (for a moment) how crappy the music behind it is. Every so often, though, a truly spectacular album and an [...]

It’s no secret that we kind of love and are obsessed with short films and animation, so it should come as no surprise to learn that we scour the Interweb constantly in search of new, spectacular, short and sweet animated films. In today’s round-up of recent discoveries we hone in especially on animated characters’ ability [...]

We never really understood the Pokemon thing, nor did we feel particularly moved to try to wrap our heads around it (although one of our cousins once bought us a Pokemon Game Boy game that was totally awesome, thanks cuz). At any rate, now that that fad is over – or rather, has mutated into [...]

You know, our less worldly friends often comment, on those rare occasions they come out from under their bubbly rock of a country, that other nations’ colorful currencies (Euros, Canadian dollars, Indian rupees, etc.) look silly. Of course, when the salmon-tinged $20 bills debuted, the Treasury Department’s commercial campaign was some seriously silly waste of [...]

It’s a sad but nearly universal truth that video game cover art tends to be, well, not great. Still, with more and more designers padding out their portfolios by revising classic (and classically mediocre) pop culture artifacts, it’s no wonder that video games are the latest iteration of the cycle
After film-based illustrations and Modernist album [...]