The Donut Project

Umm, how sexy are these? TSOVET Time Instruments, or watches to the lay person, are inspired by vintage industrial gauges and avionic instrumentation. The inspiration is apparent, and makes for some nice looking watches.

Feel free to pick up the all-black SVT-AT76 for my birthday. Find your favorite at www.tsovet.com.

Who doesn’t love a beautiful hand painted sign? Even if that’s just me, its hard to deny that these signs by New Bohemia Signs aren’t gorgeous. Just check out the before and after for Mike’s Liquor. What a transformation!

Located in San Francisco, New Bohemia has been hand painting signs since 1933. They recreate art provided to them, but also provide custom designs (all images shown are custom).

Check out more of their work on their site and their recent work on flickr.

(via faye + co)

Last Friday I received an email from your friend and mine Cee Lo Green (of Goodie Mob & Gnalrles Barkley Fame) simply titled “F You”. He shared the video for his new song F**k You from his upcoming album “Lady Killer.”

Within a matter of seconds the video was everywhere from Facebook to Twitter. It was even posted on my grandmothers blog and if you search for it on Youtube you’ll come across an astonishing amount of covers, remixes and sing-alongs.

Honestly I’m just glad to see the masses gaining such respect for good motion graphics and typography (set in Knockout by H&FJ). The times they are a-changing.

If you’re looking for a gift for me, I’ll take one of these sweet Chicago L-Shirts.

If you know Chicago, you know the ‘L’. And now you can wear it.

The current CTA ‘L’ signage is a modification of the original 1969 design, known as the “Kennedy-Dan Ryan” signage, set in Helvetica and color-coded to match the eight corresponding CTA ‘L’ lines.

Chicago pride is induced by the kinship we feel with our neighborhoods and the transit lines that connect them. That sense of pride, coupled with our affection for typography and design, have inspired us to create this series of transit t-shirts (also known as L-Shirts).

Currently, the only stops available for sale are the four Chicago Avenue stops along the Red, Blue, Brown and Purple lines. We hope to have more available in the future.

I’m a blue-liner, so blue please. Buy shirts at www.chicagolshirts.com.

Join the School of Visual Communication Design in a celebration of the life and creative spirit of Eric May in an exhibition of his work from Type High Press. August 4–21, 2010

Location:
The show is to be held at the Downtown Gallery located at: 141 East Main Street in the heart of Kent, Ohio. Gallery hours are Wednesday – Friday 12-5 PM and Saturday 10-4 PM

Downtown Gallery
141 East Main Street
Kent, Ohio 44240

Reception:
A reception, open to the public, will be held at Saturday, August 14, 2010, 6pm-9pm

For more information on the show visit theericmayproject.com or vcd.kent.edu

This Fall The Cooper Union will join forces with the Type Directors Club to offer a Certificate in Typeface Design. Principles, techniques, and history are just some of the areas in which the program aims to take its participants. For more detail check out coopertype.org

Friend of TDP, designer Mig Reyes, has launched his new website. The site shows off some of his professional and personal work, along with a news section to (try to) keep up with him, and an about page that is not an afterthought like most sites.

The most exciting part though is the thoughts section where Mig will begin writing articles. Having already spoke at the HOW Conference and been interviewed by numerous people, Mig’s voice in the industry is one worth listening to. His first article is posted, and talks about the evolution of his personal site. It’s cool to see where he started years ago and the evolution to the clean, more mature site of today. It gives the rest of us hope to be awesome.

Check it out at www.migreyes.com, and you can follow him on Twitter @spigumus.

Music Philosophy is a weekly project from Mico Toledo where he graphically/typographically interprets the lyrics from various song favorites. Anyone can submit a song lyric for the project or you can purchase your favorite lyric as a t-shirt!

(via seesaw)

The Big Caption, a compliment to The Big Picture, makes statements and jokes through typography. A lot of recent posts have to do with results of the oil spill in the Gulf, but there’s still some to make you chuckle as well. Take a look for yourself here.

(via design crush – kelly, you post such greatness!)

Created by Jen Murse, Plastique is an acrylic jewelry line with a graphic designer’s touch. Just what any designer needs to show everyone just how much they love what they do!

Jen designs and assembles each piece in her office space, meaning that each laser cut acrylic piece is unique. Purchase your very own here.