About a month ago Adam Garcia turned me on to the book Antique Packaging. I picked up a copy at The Strand, and it’s been getting me all excited for summer to get here so I can begin hording other people’s graphic junk from flea markets. In anticipation of the warm weather (who knew it [...]
Hello to all the new readers and subscribers who’ve come by over the past few days. For those of you visiting from one of our friends’ sites, we are 160over90, a branding agency in Philadelphia, and this is our Boomerang Table, where we store all of our heirloom ephemera. This blog isn’t all we do. [...]
A couple of weeks back, Forbes ran a little article deeming graphic design “a snooty business,” before profiling a site called CrowdSpring where clients go to throw spec logo projects to a pool of 13,000 Photoshop jockeys. The winning design gets about $200 or so, the rest go back to their day jobs. For some, [...]
“If a major project is truly innovative, you cannot possibly know its exact cost and its exact schedule at the beginning. And if in fact you do know the exact cost and the exact schedule, chances are that the technology is obsolete.” Joseph G. Gavin, Jr., former Grumman president, discussing the design of the Grumman [...]
The April issue of HOW Magazine (which hits newsstands next month) features winners for the 2009 International Design Annual Competition. 160over90 is recognized twice, earning awards for the agency brochure and WHYY posters. Props to everyone who worked on these projects!
Here ye here ye! The world of design hath a new font resource! A medieval “portfolio”, dubbed “The Macclesfield Alphabet Book”, was recently uncovered from the library of the Earls of Macclesfield in England, where it had sat on the shelves since 1750. This pattern book contains not only 14 decorative alphabet styles, but intricately [...]
