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

Up There

Posted: May 7th, 2010 | Author: craig | Filed under: Design, Illustration, Misc., video | Tags: , , , , , | No Comments »

“It takes so much work, it’s kind of ridiculous.”

I stumbled across this great little short film about hand-painted advertisements created by Mother NY and Stella Artois. It’s beautiful, nostalgic, inspiring: everything you’d expect it to be.

(via a nice little article over on True/Slant.)


Alice for iPad

Posted: April 18th, 2010 | Author: craig | Filed under: Design, Inspiration, Misc. | Tags: , , , , , , | No Comments »


The Third & the Seventh

Posted: April 3rd, 2010 | Author: craig | Filed under: Inspiration, Misc., video | Tags: , , , , , | No Comments »

Alex Roman has created one of the most awe-inspiring full CGI works that I’ve ever seen. Doesn’t hurt that it features some of the greatest architecture in the world, either. It’s really worth going over to Vimeo and checking it out in fullscreen HD (they won’t let me embed it).


Little Time

Posted: March 22nd, 2010 | Author: craig | Filed under: Design, Misc. | Tags: , , | No Comments »

Often the simplest idea is the best one. Via Rafael Morgan Studio.


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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