The 2Unfold ($449 / EUR 349) by Hard Graft is handmade in Italy and Crafted from premium leather and italian cotton canvas. The 2Unfold is able to re-arrange, and “Unfold” into 8 different styles and bags.
Head over to Sneaker Freaker for their feature on the history of skate shoes. There are some awesome and perhaps inspiring shots of old school skate shoes.
I recently viewed and read this post at smashing magazine showcasing some interesting and creative calendar designs and concepts. I noticed that they didn’t have a few of my personal favorites in the list, so I thought I would share.
This Year by ThisStudio.co.uk
This poster/calendar is available for purchase at JustGoneSix.
Bubble Calendar
The Bubble Calendar is a massive poster calendar with a bubble to pop for every day of the year. It is type set in Helvetica Neue the Weekends are bolded for quick refereneces; It also has all majoy US holidays marked.
Chrono Shredder by Susanna Hertrich
The Chrono_Shredder is a device that makes past time tangible. It is a hybrid between calendar, clock and waste producing automaton. It has no on/off-button, thus it is unstoppable, just like time. It features the 365 days of the year represented on a paper-roll. The paper-roll is led through a hacked paper-shredder, which is programmed to use exactly 24 hours to shred one “day”.
The Stendig Calendar Designed in 1966 by Massimo Vignelli
“Handmade” by HD Schellnack
An incredibly minimal approach to dates. I absolutely love this one.
If you’d like to share any of your personal favorites that aren’t listed, link them up in the comments.
Blik is a line of surface graphics for indecisive individuals. The self-adhesive wall stickers allow the easy transformation of almost any room. Blik can be applied to any flat surface; Windows, walls, mirrors, ceilings, floors, are all fair game to be adorned with designs, and Blik decals are easily removable when you get tired of a design. The Nintendo product line looks absolutely amazing. Also be sure to check out the Threadless section of the decals. Blik teamed up with the online tee shirt design competition community of Threadless to create an ongoing line of graphics for walls. Favorites from Threadless’s line of tees inspire new sets of wall decals and graphics.
Lines from the movie ” Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels ” put into a typographical animation. Very cool.
By London-based Ben White.
Quicksand is a free sans-serif font family by Andrew Paglinawan, Quicksand comes in 7 typeface weights and styles, including light, light oblique, book, book oblique, bold, bold oblique, and a very interesting dashed version of the typeface. Here’s an example:
Spoon Graphics recently released a free set of 14 hand drawn doodle icons created for bloggers. The icons include Delicious, Digg, Facebook, Design Float, Stumble Upon, Technorati, Feed Icons, Twitter, as well as a few more.
Michael Paul Young works as an artist, designer, director, producer, photographer, and programmer. He was born and raised in Tennessee, but now resides in Bangkok Thailand.
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Upstart Designer’s host, MediaTemple has just undergone a delicate but slick redesign. Check it out.
Conrad Kelleher is based in Sydney, Australia and creates high impact brand identities through logo design and development.
