Make Your Franklin
August 8, 2011
HERE’S a collection of re-created 100 dollar bills. Some are really terrible, one is guilty of using a stock graffiti font, but most are pretty cool. Feel free to participate.
HERE’S a collection of re-created 100 dollar bills. Some are really terrible, one is guilty of using a stock graffiti font, but most are pretty cool. Feel free to participate.
Our friend Tom Kirkby over at Breaks of 10 just launched a new version of their site. Check it out!
This post is long overdue, but Travis Collier and his friend Ryan Romero started their own design agency a while back called CLOU and they were hired to do all the creative direction for The Cheaper Show, a huge art show in Vancouver. The video after the jump documents the process of printing the book [...]
Honestly, I don’t know what took so long for this Q&A with Jon Contino to happen. Harrison and I both love his stuff, we’ve featured him on here before, so there really is no excuse. Anyway, Jon Contino is an amazing illustrator based out of New York who specializes in hand lettering. His work looks [...]
Bnqt hit us up to do a “best of” feature on their site covering some of the top content we’ve had on Defgrip. I dug through our Analytics and put together a list in no particular order of the top 10 most viewed pieces of content we’ve had on the site over the past years. [...]
Brandon Galosi is one of the dudes responsible for making ALYK look sweet. Go HERE and eyeball his site and work.
Illustrations by Gianmarco Magnani. Pretty, pretty, pretty good! Check out his site HERE and order prints HERE.
Check out a great series of typographic treatments based on cities around the world from designer Albin Holmqvist.
The artist Cy Twombly passed away on Tuesday. Gaining notoriety in New York in the late 50′s along side his friends Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, Twombly’s simplistic scribbles and drips have been a huge influence on artists over the past 20+ years including Jean Michel Basquiat. He passed away in Rome at the age of [...]
I’ve always noticed these Crucial ads (like above) in the mags, and kind of wondered who was behind them. Had I looked a little harder at the edges of the ad, I would have know sooner, but oh well. Today I came across 99 Seconds, which is the studio behind the ads (and some other [...]
Check out a great video on artists Tom Sachs directed by The Selby, shot by Ed David.
Nuno sent over a link this morning to a blog titled ‘All the Buildings in New York’… Which is “An attempt to draw all the buildings in New York by James Gulliver Hancock.” Pretty stoked on the drawings and it would be amazing if he completed his task and actually drew every building. Check out [...]
Check out some great collage work from Los Angeles based artist Victor Antonio.
If you’re a fan of US History and design, than Momentus is for you. Even if you’re not a fan, this is still rad. Momentus is a new project that launched today, which involves a slew of designers/illustrators taking on certain events in US history. The first one just so happens be from one of [...]
In addition to being a nice looking site, the Lost Type Co-Op could be a useful place for you designers out there (or anyone randomly in need of a cool font). Remember when Radiohead decided to release a pay-what-you-want album? Well, Lost Type Co-Op is basically the same concept, but with fonts. 100% of the [...]
Artist, designer, lady magnet, and stunt biker Travis Collier has a new tumblr going called Nomadic Buffoonery. It’s a great glimpse into the wonderful and strange things that Travis comes across in his life and I can’t wait to see more of the wild stuff he thinks up. Some of the pictures definitely caught me [...]
This has been floating around the web for a bit now–John Cyr’s photographs of famous developing trays. Featuring the trays of famous photographers like Sally Mann, Ansel Adams, and various notable organizations and photographers, this is an interesting photographic study and something I’d love to see prints of in person. Head to Cyr’s website to [...]
Carson Leh, who’s custom leather seats we posted about a few months back, has been staying busy and has setup an Esty store to sell his custom seats. Check out his store here and keep reading to see a few more photos.
I was browsing Tumblr earlier and came across the above graphic, which caught my eye. Being a fan of simple graphics with feeling, I had to know who was responsible. Since credit is hardly ever given to random stuff on Tumblr, you never know who the hell has done what, which led me to unleash [...]
50 AND 50 IS A CURATED PROJECT WHICH ATTEMPTS TO CONSTRUCT A HANDSOME NEW WAY OF LOOKING AT OUR COUNTRY. FIFTY DESIGNERS, ONE PER STATE, HAVE ILLUSTRATED THEIR STATE MOTTO, CREATING SOMETHING STEEPED IN HISTORY BUT COMPLETELY MODERN AND UNIQUE: A KIND OF DESIGNER’S ATLAS. All these came out awesome. Go HERE.
Shout out to random comic strips that make me laugh. Via – Kerry Callen
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