I’ve been obsessing over logos for a few projects I’ve been working on in school. My lecturer shared this cute video from a designer going through a series of brandmarks with his daughter to get her perspective on their meaning.

It’s kinda scary how she recognized the Starbucks logo. Talk about getting in the consumer consideration set early.

A series of dance prints from Brazilian designer Niege Borges. The story that inspired them:

In 1518, a bunch of people from a french town called Stransbourg were affected by something called dancing mania. It began with one lady named Frau Troffea dancing in the street and end up with, more or less, 400 people dancing on for days without rest, resulting in some deaths of heart attack, stroke and exhaustion. This project is, in some sort of way, a memorial for Frau Toffea. From the silliest little dance to the most elaborate dance sequence of the history of cinema, there were a lot of dancing in the last decades (not enough to kill anyone, I hope). Here are some of these dances.

I’m torn between Bret’s dance from Flight of the Concords and Elaine’s awful attempt at dancing from that infamous episode of Seinfeld as favorites. All of these are so much fun. These and more are available for sale here.

This stop motion video was a promotional tool for the Toronto bookstore Type. From the looks of it it took quite a few hours to complete.

As a huge fan of books and printed publications, I’m happy to see the video get so much attention and wish the store much success.

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Simple yet highly effective logos from designer/illustrator Matt Lehman.

Top to bottom – Blood: Water Mission, General Mills: Connect, Dimes for Darfur, Pray for Hope

I love documentaries of all kind so I’m very excited to see this film.

via Refinery29

I found this video to be inspiring. Sometimes I forget how much control we have over our lives. It’s up to us to put in the work to ensure we attain the results we want.

I also enjoyed Steve Jobs’s thoughts on failure. That’s available here. Enjoy.

Miles Davis – 1969

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Loving the palettes on these visuals from  photographer Nakeya B.  Her portfolio features a wide array of portraits of everyday people to high-end shoots.  Check it out here.

I’m in need of an iPhone case in a major way. My current one is cracked and broken. A really undiginified way to be store such a great device.

I like all these abstract images from Society6. I think I’m going to go with the one on the bottom left though. Captivated by the color palette.

The latest patterns for your sole from Obsorn. I really liked the photography in their 2011 Look Book. Check that out on their home page if you haven’t done so already.