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.


D.C. in White

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


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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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.


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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Two Thousand Ten

Posted: December 22nd, 2009 | Author: craig | Filed under: Misc., Musings | Tags: , , , | No Comments »

Aina is the Hawaiian word for land and for me 2010 is a year of reconnecting to the earth. In 2009, we experienced a year filled with financial problems, political tensions and fear in the media… As a forest sometimes burns, new life regrows in its place. While we may have had a year of burning I feel like the soil we have to grow out of is fertile and full of growth.

-Mark Boulton

At least I think Mark Boulton wrote that on Colourlovers. I can’t seem to find it  now, but I scribbled it on some paper and I like it more and more each day. I believe the quote was in reference to the color he chose as the color of 2010. Apparently, Pantone decided it’s turquoise.


Holidays

Posted: December 21st, 2009 | Author: craig | Filed under: Illustration, Inspiration, Misc. | Tags: , , , , | No Comments »

xmasHere’s a quick series of holiday sketches that I finished up yesterday. I guess I am in the holiday spirit. Now where did I put my Bob Dylan Christmas Album?


Box Animation

Posted: December 17th, 2009 | Author: craig | Filed under: Inspiration, Misc., video | Tags: , | 1 Comment »

Box Animation from Jordan Clarke on Vimeo.


L.A.

Posted: December 15th, 2009 | Author: craig | Filed under: Illustration, Misc. | Tags: , , | No Comments »

LALately I’ve been having a pen & ink revival. It’s nice to get away from the machine occasionally.