Icons and Info Graphics

I love the color of these medicine-related icons, but the high level of detail makes me question their practicality and function in the real world (if there is one). Here's a cool idea for how to record the movement in a room over a particular time span.

Working with Texture

Here are two cool ways that posters can become "interactive." The textural experiences complement the designs by simulating the noises if you actually interacted with the physical objects and not just pictures of them.

Also, below is original work from Needle Noodle that may make you salivate. The texture adds an awesome dimension to the work. More work can be found at their flickr photostream here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/needlenoodles/

Cool Things with Type

Part of a set of posters by Sydney ad adgency Publicis Mojo:


Here is an LCD greeting card where you can write any message you’d like within the 2 rows of 8 grooved squares - the raised sections will guide your marker on the right track. Posted originally in Swissmiss, a design blog and studio run by Tina Roth Eisenberg, a "swiss designer gone NYC." I suppose it's another way aside from the e-card phenomenon to digitalize your greeting card?


A sample of Julene Harrison's impressive typographic papercuts:


Unknown work:

A Well-Designed Budget

Where do our taxes go? The budget submitted by the president every February is publicly available, but why sift through thousands of pages of government documents, when a designer can create a comprehensive information graphic to explain it all? Designer Jess Bachman created "Death and Taxes," a 6-square-foot infographic that organizes the budget into an amazing bubble diagram (available as a poster and online). Agencies are assigned their official seals and scaled according to the program's annual expense. A percentage change is also given in spending from the previous year--helpful in understanding our last president's priorities. Bachman has her work set out for her for the 2010 budget design.

Lettering the Body

Peter Chmela wanted to get physical with his work. His "Don't judge people according to their appearance" is a subtle, yet powerful photography project. My favorites: "judge" (yay fingerprints) and "appearance"; I thought their legibility and context were the strongest visually.

Brochure

Type treatment, illustration, and sophisticated silver/light gray for this brochure complement the idea of a sparkling, bubbly drink. Designer unknown.

Designs You Want to Touch

Lizania Cruz is a graphic designer who currently lives in Philadelphia (she finished her BA at Philadelphia University and now works as a graphic designer for Anthropologie). I love the tactile and delicate element she adds to her designs. Samples below include a discount/sewing kit sent to select Anthropologie customers as a birthday gift, an identity for Anthropologie’s bedding collection (designed in collaboration with Anthropologie’s in-house design department), and the concept and design for a clutch bag made out of a FedEx Tyvek envelope.