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This girl—Claire Boucher—was amazing. Amazingly weird. Reminiscent of a really good desert party. Cosmic pop, dark and angelic at the same time with a voice that is not from this world. She calls herself Grimes, opened for Lykke Li and totally transported the crowd to the right place. Deep basslines. Crazy high and childlike sounding vocals. Right with her first song. RAD. End your Memorial Day with something memorable.
Get Dark Bloom, Boucher’s forthcoming split 12″ EP (with her Montreal bud d’Eon).
Goddamn, I love Faile. They’ve done it again with a collection of screen-printed wood puzzle blocks that come in a handy, not to mention, ridiculously sick looking case. It’s kind of the ultimate in art meets art lover collaboration. Each puzzle has 3 original Faile designs, but as they say themselves, “in your hands, the real number is infinite. Just swap, flip, and rotate the blocks to juxtapose the imagery and create new compositions. Or, simply have fun solving the puzzle.”
I love it. So how much does it cost? Oh, $15,000.00? Coooooooool.
I recently had the opportunity to snorkle in Puerto Rico & I got to see some of the most amazing sea life. I got to lounge with some sea turtles under water. That’s right – lounge. Anyway, since I’ve been back to desk world, I’ve been pouring through flickr sets of underwater photography. In doing so, I found Alexander Semenov’s macro photography of miniscule creatures on the seafloor. Goodbye productivity.
Tyler Galpin and Riley Cran, each talented in their own rights, have merged their brains together to form a new site called the Lost Type Co-op. The idea is simple. Designers work on a typeface, they host the typeface on the Lost Type Co-op, type junkies like me go there and pay-what-I-want for any of their offerings, and the designers keep 100% of the profits. Everyone wins! Check it out.
Do guys remember my friend Jaime VanWart who designed the Tasty Beverage Co. identity? Well, she’s done some more awesome branding for another cool local business. This time the client is Parlour, Durham’s latest food truck addition, a mini school bus turned mobile ice cream parlor. I have yet to try their ice cream, but it is definitely on my to do list!
Terence Chang (aka Exxonvaldez) has taken some seriously sweet surreal long exposure photographs of aircraft coming and going from the San Fransisco International airport. To have your mind blown even more, check out his flickr set and view them as large as you can get them.
A studio called Handmadefont out of Estonia that specializes in, you guessed it, hand made fonts has just released this series of typefaces called “animated fonts.” Two things: 1. Estonians apparently aren’t very creative when it comes to business/product naming and 2. this is kind of awesome. You can purchase these font sets as animations.
But wait, is this awesome? Or is this a detriment to the art of motion design? The poor man’s solution? I don’t know…what do you think? Check out a handful of their animated fonts under the jump.
Kurppa Hosk, Swedish (of course) based brand and design consultancy, does not disappoint. Their body of work shows how it’s done. Modernist, brilliantly executed across all levels and simple enough to be memorable.
