The Donut Project

Gold Panda from the record label Ghostly International is an electronic artist out of the UK. A great little piece on him by Shai Levy who followed him on his tour as he talks about life on the road and his music. Check out some more Gold Panda after the jump.

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Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
—Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs’ wonderful 2005 Stanford Commencement Speech ends with a quote from a catalog “Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.” — and I intend to live my life that way.

I’ve been trying to figure out something insightful to say about the passing of Steve Jobs, but nothing I write seems to capture my thoughts. I don’t wanna talk about iPods or phones or even the fact that I have a career partly because of his team’s work.

Every time someone passes away from cancer, I’m reminded of my little sister, my partner in crime, who passed away from cancer 4 years ago. Things like this bring that back like it was yesterday. It reminds us that this terrible disease can strike anyone.

Tonight, I urge you to spend $25.

• Go to the local pub, and raise a glass to Steve Jobs, the greatest visionary of the last 25 years.

• Then, donate the remaining $20 to the American Cancer Society.

We gotta find a cure for this.

Thanks for everything, Steve. You will be missed.

Junto is a startup for startups.

Designed for entrepreneurs who are looking to build a tech startup without a technical co-founder, Junto is powered by the creative and production prowess of Polymathic. Junto provides an all-online funding, R&D and incubation environment for Juntors’ big ideas — and a robust community of funders and supporters helps each idea evolve into a finished, market-ready product.

The Junto kids have become new friends for me in Chicago (they’re good people) and they’re a mere $165 away from hitting their initial funding goal of $10,000. I say we put them over the top.

Head to jointhejunto.com, give a few bucks, and help get this off the ground, so they can help others get off the ground.

So, my dudebro Andy Luce just finished this kick ass hand-lettered wall for a muffler shop here in Chicago.

New Express is a Muffler & Brake shop in Chicago’s Bucktown neighborhood. I developed and hand-lettered the type, then painted it onto the shop over a few day period. I’m so excited about the finished job!

Work with this much care just doesn’t happen very often anymore. I mean, how much more awesome is this than some lousy default sign? See more of his work at visualarmory.com

A little late on posting this, but oh well. Neon Indian’s latest release Era Extrana is pretty fantastic and here is the first single off the album called ‘Polish Girl’ by Tim Nackashi. Happy Monday.

This September marks the one year anniversary and fifth TDP posting (We realize – we may have abused our posting privileges) of Good Fucking Design Advice a collaborative project between TDP contributors, Brian Buirge and Jason Bacher. To celebrate this momentous occasion, they’ve released a feature video on their newly redesigned site “Getting Shit Done: The Passion Behind G.F.D.A.”

G.F.D.A originally started as a humorous side project while in graduate school and his since has taken off. During its first year G.F.D.A. released a series of products designed to inspire the masses including desktop wallpapers, shirts, posters, coffee mugs and buttons. As the six-month mark came around, they determined that the workload of site (in addition to their other responsibilities) had become too great and thus the two hired their first intern, Eric Courtney, for the summer of 2011.

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Designer Nicole Meyer has taken on a large task – that of creating a logo a day for Minnesota’s 10,000 lakes. She figures it will only take a little over 27 years. No big deal.

I’m really enjoying the clean solutions and simple genius that some of the names provide. Make sure to check out Nicole’s progress so far here, more work on her site, and follow her on Twitter while you’re at it.

via @DaveWaite

Fracture is a 3D typeface made up of more than 200 randomized fragments. See the whole typeface and download it for free here. Found via Typography Served