DesignBrawl is the weblog of A. Craig Williams. It gets less coherent every day.

Niels “Shoe” Meulman

Posted: March 12th, 2010 | Author: craig | Filed under: Design, Illustration, Inspiration, Misc. | Tags: , , , , , , | No Comments »

Niels “Shoe” Meulman is a super-talented graffiti artist and creative director from Amsterdam. His work is so good, I’m actually shocked that I haven’t seen it before. He has a new book out, called “Calligraffiti” that looks fantastic.

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Oronoco Rum

Posted: March 8th, 2010 | Author: craig | Filed under: Design, Inspiration, Misc. | Tags: , , , | No Comments »

Love the embossed leather label. This is a well-done product, from top to bottom. Bravo.

via the Dieline.

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A Fig

Posted: March 2nd, 2010 | Author: craig | Filed under: Musings | Tags: , , , , | No Comments »

“I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity.”

~Oliver Wendell Holmes

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D.C. in White

Posted: February 25th, 2010 | Author: craig | Filed under: Misc., video | Tags: , , , | No Comments »

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Lost & Found

Posted: February 15th, 2010 | Author: craig | Filed under: Inspiration, Misc., photography | Tags: , , , , , | No Comments »

I just found these photos I took in Eastern Europe way back in 2003. I was convinced that I had accidentally deleted them.

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Olga Feldman

Posted: February 12th, 2010 | Author: craig | Filed under: Illustration, Inspiration | Tags: , , , , | No Comments »

Super.

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Sanjuro/Yojimbo

Posted: February 9th, 2010 | Author: craig | Filed under: Design, Illustration, Inspiration | Tags: , , , , | No Comments »

I came across these covers for two of Akira Kurosawa’s best flicks the other day while looking for another one of his films on Netflix. Love them.

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Audience

Posted: February 2nd, 2010 | Author: craig | Filed under: Inspiration, Music, Musings, video | Tags: , , | No Comments »

This video is a summary of pretty much everything I’ve been into for the past two months.

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Extraordinary Joe

Posted: January 30th, 2010 | Author: craig | Filed under: Inspiration, Misc., video | Tags: , , | No Comments »

This is the second part in a series of beautiful videos on coffee making at Intelligentsia in Venice, California. Video by the Dept. of the Fourth Dimension.

The way everything is kept black & white except for the coffee is incredibly charming.

Thanks to Dan Cederholm for highlighting the first video in this series over at SimpleBits.

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Sign Language

Posted: January 21st, 2010 | Author: craig | Filed under: Inspiration, Misc., Musings | No Comments »

While I was on holiday in the Philippines earlier this month, I had the great pleasure of attending a parade for Fiesta on the island of Romblon. I was loving the signs that each tribe had created, so I snapped a quick series of them.

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