Graphic Fix >> It's Never Too Late

...to be what you want to be.

When I first saw this print, I thought it was a movie poster, like the "unsheets" I've been posting.  Doesn't the format, with the line along the bottom and what looks like tiny credits underneath, lead you to think so?  And for a French film, the design would be perfectly suitable.  It kind of looks like it could be for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, no?

And it turns out it's just a lovely print with a lovely meaning by an artist, and unlike the general genre of "inspirational posters," not cheesy at all.  I particularly love the (unsentimental) typeface.
Here.

["Unsheet" movie poster 

posts here, here, here.]

Typography + Architecture >> Colosseo

I just couldn't end the day with that creepy pageant post, and it was actually really hard to find something to follow that, because all of a sudden, knowing that those images would follow whatever I put up next, they started tainting everything!

So anyway... I've had this in the vault for a while and thought, ok, there's no way the pageant pics could have any kind of dialogue with something with almost no allusions or connotations, something that is just purely graphicly, visually interesting.

After a 10-year anniversary trip to Rome with his wife, designer Cameron Moll decided to make the Colosseum his next artistic subject.  Using 16th century calligrapher M. Giovambattista Palatino's work as his inspiration (see bottom), he then spent over 250 hours creating this piece, character by character, using the Goudy Trajan Bembo Pro typefaces.

[Available as a print here.]

TypeSeat

This is just so satisfying to my designy nerd soul.

By Tim Fishlock.

PS - I once found a pair of the Z chair in lucite at a consignment shop for like $200 total, and I decided to think about it for a day, and I went back and they were gone, and I've honestly mourned the decision ever since.  Bird in the hand, people, bird. in. the. hand.  Let me have learned this lesson for you.

PPS - Kyle, I know what you're going to say- we literally have no space or use for more chairs.  I know.  But I looove them.  You got lucky on this one. 

A Winning Combination >> Music + Typography

LOVE these typographic prints of lyrics by artist Mico Toledo.  Done with less sophisticated designs, these could have been cheesy, but the graphic tone is spot-on.  Love the use of fonts, layout, and simple graphics.