One of my favorite Philly bands, Dr. Dog, will be performing at World Cafe Live today at Noon. Tickets are sold out, but you can listen live through the XPN stream. If you haven’t seen it already, check out their performance on All Songs Considered’s Tiny Desk Series, it’s a great performance.
Very cool stop motion piece I came across recently. Enjoy!
I’m loving the simplicity of Tim Brown’s video and still life work.
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 designed borders, initials and script.
Historians believe the book was used for one design/bookbinding house, as both a portfolio of sorts (imagine spilling coffee on this one…) and an apprentice guidebook.
While we may have thousands of fonts available for our clients at the click of a button, I’m sure they would be blown away if we brought something like this into a presentation to use for say, a new mailing piece. “This is the 16th century font we thought would be perfect for the cover…”
*Designers take note: The British Library is in negotiations to purchase this rare pattern alphabet book for £600,000 (roughly $867,000). Methinks you could get a pretty farthing for yours too.
On Tuesday the nations greatest minds gathered in Palm Springs to share ideas on how to improve the world. It’s the 25th anniversary of the TED conference, and because of the rising popularity of the TED website in the last couple years, this conference is bound to have the world following it’s developments. It’s one of my goals to eventually attend TED, but at $6,000 a person, I don’t think I’ll be attending too soon. Eventually I’ll get there, but in the meantime I’ll follow the happenings from my desk. A short summary of excitement and how you can follow after the jump.
My colleagues Uncle Kelly and Puberty Boy Brown can attest to the awesomeness of this song, for they were on hand at Johnny Brenda’s last year as the Fleet Foxes unleashed the full force of Mykonos.
FF’s front man Robin Peckinold enlisted his brother Sean to provide stop-motion duties for their latest video. Enjoy.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I gotta send this to my boy Michael Phelps. I’m sure he’ll be mesmerized.