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VHS in the 21st Century

Contemporary films and television shows packaged as VHS releases, replete with all those wonderful 1980s-style design flourishes. More of the same at BuzzFeed. + Share Facebook Twitter Google+

Reviews of Adobe Comp CC

Here are the first fifteen user reviews from the App Store for Comp CC, the new iPad app I created with Adobe. I’m not really sure what the title of that last one means, but I’ll take it. More about Comp CC at adobe.com or download it directly from the App Store. + Share Facebook…

Furious

This poster for the seventh “Fast & Furious” movie has been all over town for the past month or so. It depicts a downcast Vin Diesel seen in an over-the-shoulder profile, and a stony-faced Paul Walker standing across from him. For a franchise that has always thrived on fast cars and pyrotechnics, the posters for…

Ray Collins

Photographer Ray Collins, who used to be a coal miner and who bought his first camera only eight years ago, has achieved acclaim for his shockingly unfamiliar images of the ocean. His shots capture water as fleeting monuments with almost otherworldly qualities. Collins’s four-minute video profile below is a little overfull with slow motion and…

Posters for Tennis by Kyle Read

These three stunning posters for the indie band Tennis were created by type designer Kyle Read with imagery from photographer Luca Venter. Read’s work is understated and perhaps a bit precious, but undeniably beautiful. See more of it at of his studio and type foundry Badson. + Share Facebook Twitter Google+

Shutterstock Ads at We Transfer

This morning I got a link to download something at WeTransfer, as I do every once in a while. I don’t spend much time thinking about that service, so I was surprised today to see how sophisticated their advertising integration is. They have a deal with stock photo service Shutterstock, which runs various loops of…

Todoist 10 for iOS

Always be launching, that’s my motto. Over the past six months I’ve been lucky enough to bring several of my projects to fruition. Back in November, we launched Wildcard for iPhone, the world’s first browser for cards. Just before the holidays, Kidpost, the family photo sharing tool I’ve been working on with friends, ended its…

LayUp Is Now Adobe Comp CC and It Launches Today

Last October, on stage at the annual Adobe Max conference, I debuted a collaboration between Adobe and myself called Project LayUp, a new iPad app for designers. Today, that app officially launches in the App Store under a new name: Adobe Comp CC. Read the company’s official release for the app is here. Adobe describes…

Instagram’s Endangered Ephemera

Over at The New Yorker, architecture and design writer Alexandra Lange writes about the phenomenon of Instagram accounts that capture design ephemera like matchbooks, clothing labels, postage stamps, machine badges and more. These examples of tiny graphic-design ephemera are brought to our full attention in obsessive, single-serving Instagram accounts. This is not the Instagram of…

Women of SCOTUS in LEGO

This is a homebrewed proposal from editor Maia Weinstock for a set of LEGO toys based on the female justices of the U.S. Supreme Court: Sandra Day O’Connor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan. Weinstock submitted the idea to LEGO, but it was rejected in accordance with the company’s rule against politics or…