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i found another great site full of really fun and sometimes raunchy ads from around the world. surprisingly enough, it's called ads of the world. be sure to have your headphones plugged in and make sure your boss isn't walking behind you, bc some of the quicktime ads posted aren't all pg-13.
i got back to work yesterday after a weeklong break, and found a package from art prositute. enclosed was a bunch of flyers for national forest design's steven harrington and justin krietemeyer's exhibition at the art prostitute gallery in denton and their artist's talk at january's dsvc meeting.
i took a look at their site and their work. very very nice. if you're in the dallas area, i encourage you to haul yourself and your design inspired friends and go see their work in denton, and see their talk on wednesday january 4. they start at 7pm at cityplace.
"... i hope to find these under thee..."
so, to counter the upping of my dork factor with this post title and lead-in line, i'm offering the special little tid-bits i learned from an email newsletter sent to me by daily candy:
alpha, gear for gents is selling $50.00 lomography fisheye cameras for $37.50 with the check out code: ALPHDC. enter that code to recieve 25% off everything on that site.
DEALS is the code to recieve 25% off items at shop intuition (everything is pretty pricey to begin with, so you'd still be spending a lot of dough, but if you like a good deal, and that deal means saving 80 bucks off a dress that starts at 240, then go for it!).
and last of the deals i'm willing to tout is 25% off of bongenre.com items by entering the code: DCPLATES. the site is worth checking out even if you're not going to take advantage of the discount. it's full of cool melamine tableware in distinct patterns to rival your ikea shopping arch nemesis.
so, it's been almost five years since i graduated from university - graduated the communication design program - and yet, the book, "the elements of typographic style" is again infiltrating my desktop. but instead of the wooden desktop i used to work on - the one full of scratches, sticky with spray mount and decorated with the out-of-the-line markings of prisma colors - it's my 2-d computer desktop, with the rotating pictures of my nephew and my cat.
this time, it's the the elements of typographic style applied to the web. finally, something to reference when our programmers tell us we have to live with their inability (or lack of professional accountability) to make our body copy look halfway decent.
my friend sent me this link for fancy parking. it's a fun site with videos, photos and tutorials about parking atleast 5 times fancier than your neighbors. and it's not badly designed either. props to the diagram makers. if only driver's ed had graphics this cool.
twiddling my thumbs at work, wondering when the motivation will come for me to draw up some pencils for this annual report i'm supposed to be working on. so surfing online for inspiration, and decided, "hey, why not see what's new on the art prostitute site." and so i did.
as i am already attention-deficit this morning, i'm not really reading the site info - unless you count the intern's blog of short notes without too much substance or informative information. that might actually be the reason i'm just listening to the music and only looking at pictures, like the linked sites on their homepage...
leading into my picks for posting as "cool lookin sites" that i'll admit, i'm just looking at them, not really reading them:
poundabearhug.com which leads to the 1300 gallery which is a distraction, go back to obey which i think is a store, and then i finally find the event page and scroll to the triple crown link and the site of the month, - both of which are my favorite discoveries in my art prostitute workday tangent.
Supermarket by Rudy Vanderlans is a great-photography-book-possibly-a-nice-christmas-present. For lovers of Emigre, and its photo-graphic stories, this book is a definite must-have. It's full of Vanderlans' spirit of capturing the everyday and turning it into eye candy. In this case, he's taking the California desert and developer's initiatives to settle it, and delivers captivating images of surprising beauty.
Originally published in 2001, the book is priced from $45 to $53, but can be found for $14.99 and $11.99 used.
