Oh hey, Fancy Thing, you say you are a picture of a doily? and you appear to me made of LOTS OF LITTLE doilies?
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from design work life
Although I realize how contrived it is, I’m still a fan of baroque ornamentation and piling on lots of it. I like how this poster has all that going on, but offsets it with ugliness.
Anders Bollman
This tumblr is a safe, design-geek-friendly place so I feel comfortable saying that I love package design and I will go one step further and admit that when I go to a big beer and/or wine store I get really excited to go around and look at all the labels. I have a feeling that many of you do the same thing.
When I visited Belgium a little over a year ago I was so psyched to LOOK AT so much high-end beer. I was disappointed that most of these amazing beers that have been crafted by monks for hundreds and hundreds of years all had the same, basic, traditional monk-like beer calligraphy on the labels and not much more.
All of this is a round-about way of saying that I like the Shiner logo because it uses that pointy, middle ages type but it ALSO is original and interesting and way cool.
Shiner Beer on the Behance Network
from design work life
Just as I was getting ready to post this, my friend IMed me to say this:
“what are my favorite things you ask??
that would be glee, kristin chen, roller skating and the boss and oh! tonight they will all be together!”
And I know just how you feel friend! Because three of my favorite things are Ornamentation, symmetry, and lots-of-crazy-shit-going-on.
Now I realize these things can seem stale and trite and over-used, but I feel like the above design pushes it just enough to make it look a little bit different and new.
Oh, and who exactly is the designer in question? I’m glad you asked. For they call themselves
The Official Manufacturing Company
!!!!
This is, without a doubt, the coolest thing you, or I, or anybody has or will see for a long long time.
Somebody combined taxidermy and high art and cake. Can you even believe that?
scott hove’s cakeland.
first of all, i want to point out that this poster looks like an illustration of my most-used tumblr tags. which is an idea that i will now use, because that would look pretty cool.
http://www.ilovedust.com/project/view/lovealbertroad
I’m digging the exuberance - which designers know is an effect that is actually achieved by sitting down very very seriously and thinking very carefully for a long time - and also the use of glyphs as decorative elements
