Jeff Lilley's Blog :: Graphic/Web Designer :: Brooklyn, NY http://jefflilley.com/blog Design news & inspiration Sun, 15 Apr 2012 21:41:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The ultimate recycled office space http://jefflilley.com/blog/2012/04/15/the-ultimate-recycled-office-space/ http://jefflilley.com/blog/2012/04/15/the-ultimate-recycled-office-space/#comments Sun, 15 Apr 2012 21:39:16 +0000 Jeff Lilley http://jefflilley.com/blog/?p=365 I’ve always been a fan of recycling wood pallets for things like furniture and home decor, but Dutch advertising agency BrandBase has taken this idea to a whole new level. I have my doubts about how sustainable this actually is considering that from these pictures these pallets don’t appear to have ever been used in the first place, but nonetheless a cool concept. [via inthralld]

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]]> http://jefflilley.com/blog/2012/03/30/kick-ass-website-design-of-the-week-12/feed/ 0 3D hand drawn animated gifs http://jefflilley.com/blog/2012/03/21/3d-hand-drawn-animated-gifs/ http://jefflilley.com/blog/2012/03/21/3d-hand-drawn-animated-gifs/#comments Thu, 22 Mar 2012 01:30:15 +0000 Jeff Lilley http://jefflilley.com/blog/?p=351 I find myself mildly hypnotized by these every time I look at them. [by illustrator Dain Fagerholm via designboom]

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Bored at work? Take a break from watching videos of cats doing crazy shit and head on over to oneminutewith.com, a cool little website put together by designer Conor O’Driscoll. He interviews creative people from all over the world, asking about their lives, work, sources of inspiration, etc. Maybe you work from home, alone, like me, and your life is mostly devoid of contact with other designers (it’s not quite as depressing as it sounds). This a great place to “meet” other like-minded people, see how they work and what inspires them, and maybe in turn get inspired yourself.

]]> http://jefflilley.com/blog/2012/02/16/one-minute-with-interviews-with-creative-people/feed/ 1 The Gridiron League – old school NFL logos http://jefflilley.com/blog/2012/02/11/the-gridiron-league-old-school-nfl-logos/ http://jefflilley.com/blog/2012/02/11/the-gridiron-league-old-school-nfl-logos/#comments Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:58:25 +0000 Jeff Lilley http://jefflilley.com/blog/?p=293 Remember when NFL team logos were actually well designed and looked cool? No? Well, that’s because it’s been a very, very long time, and for many teams it was just never the case. These aren’t all winners, and some aren’t all that disimilar from the team’s current logo, but nearly every one of Wes Kull’s vintage, Vince Lombardi-era inspired logos IS significantly better than the modern and (as he puts it) “swooshed-out, dropped-shadowed, and more commercial-ready” version we see today. See them all here.

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