DesignBrawl

Niels “Shoe” Meulman

craig — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:55:12 +0000

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.

From the Calligraffiti site:

“The fairly new art of Graffiti and its somewhat rigid rules prompt us to look further back into the history of writing. This is exactly what Niels Shoe Meulman has been doing since his teens, and at the beginning of this century he started combining the two. Thus resulting in Calligraffiti: traditional handwriting with a metropolitan attitude.”

Oronoco Rum

craig — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:57:38 +0000

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

via the Dieline.

A Fig

craig — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:19:14 +0000

“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

D.C. in White

craig — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 04:56:48 +0000

Lost & Found

craig — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:33:51 +0000

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

Olga Feldman

craig — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:43:11 +0000

Super.

Sanjuro/Yojimbo

craig — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:45:33 +0000

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.

Audience

craig — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:15:05 +0000

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

Extraordinary Joe

craig — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:31:13 +0000

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

craig — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:18:06 +0000

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.