rdw | Robert D. Waller

Denis Dailleux, Photographer

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 03:05:42 -0700

Exotic images of Cairo and Egypt by French-born photographer Denis Dailleux.

A Rare Tour of IMAX Cameras

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:00:07 -0700

Gizmodo’s Mark Wilson:

There are 26 IMAX film cameras in the world today. At IMAX HQ, I got to play with 4 of them (and take plenty of photographs for you).

Very cool stuff.

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2009 Logo Trends

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:52:09 -0700

An look back at the logo design trends of 2009.

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Ten Great Free Fonts for @fontface Embedding

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:15:04 -0700

Ten free fonts that support @font-face embedding in CSS3 (via Simplebits).

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Crumpling as Identity

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:12:05 -0700

Swanswell commits to making life’s wrinkles well with an innovative identity that’s part clever word mark, part creative texturing.

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Studio Moe

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:00:07 -0700

Beautiful and rustic, handmade furniture crafted from reclaimed lumber by Studio Moe.

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Ajaxload

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:57:22 -0700

Simple ‘loading’ icon generator that helps you create a custom indicator for whatever site you’re creating.

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Lunch Bag Art

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:06:09 -0700

Hand-drawn illustrations by a dad who makes a new piece of lunch bag art each day for his kids during his lunch break at work. Incredibly fun.

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Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:04:55 -0700

Photos of Frank Lloyd Wright’s largest single site collection, Child of the Sun, at Florida Southern College. The photos are part of an exhibit titled Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward showing the Guggenheim Museum in New York, May 15–August 23, 2009.

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Airline Logos

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:07:46 -0700

A collection of 150 vintage airline logos from around the world, courtesy of the Museum of Flight.

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Facestape

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:05:02 -0700

Moustaches, googley-eyes, schnozes - oh my! Children’s store Our Childrens Gorilla takes mundane packing tape to new heights of expression.

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Flags of Imaginary Nations

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:03:54 -0700

A collection of photos that would make apt banners for yet-to-be-founded nations.

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Subway Systems of the World, Presented on the Same Scale

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:56:07 -0700

As the name implies, a visual collection of the world’s subway systems drawn to the same scale. Great for eyeballing the sprawling size of Seoul compared to the relative simplicity of Vancouver.

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Flipping Typical

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:51:35 -0700

If you’ve ever found yourself making a lists of type set in different fonts, highlight and change no more. Flipping Typical is a simple and seamless Web-based tool for previewing text set in different font faces - using the system fonts installed on your computer.

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The Xerox Star UI

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:46:49 -0700

The Ministry of Type takes a squinty-eyed look at the pixel-perfect attention to detail in the Xerox Star UI.

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40 Excellent Logos Created with Helvetica

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:17:47 -0700

A collection of heavy-hitter logos, all designed with the ubiquitous Helvetica.

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8 Simple Ways to Improve Typography In Your Designs

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:16:04 -0700

Rock-solid primer on Web typography from AisleOne.

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Picture Show: Traffic!

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:21:54 -0700

In honor of Conan O’Brien’s first night hosting The Tonight Show, dizzying photos of Los Angeles traffic.

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A Treasury of Wood Type Online

Mon, 18 May 2009 16:42:35 -0700

Great collection of wood type from the Hamilton Manufacturing Co., courtesy of Hoefler & Frere-Jones.

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Mantras: Joe Lertola’s maps

Mon, 18 May 2009 16:40:22 -0700

Infographics from Time’s Joe Lertola featuring 3D cartography.

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Jacek Utko: Can design save the newspaper?

Thu, 07 May 2009 14:52:53 -0700

Jacek Utko opines about the role design can take in revitalizing the modern newspaper at TED.

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Kitchens, Etc.

Thu, 07 May 2009 14:45:03 -0700

Engrossing collection of vintage kitchen photos from the archives at Shorpy.

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Neon Sign Boneyard

Wed, 06 May 2009 21:11:49 -0700

The Boneyard in Las Vegas is where all good Sin City neon goes to die. Until I have the chance to go back and take my own photos, I’ll have to settle for a vicarious tour through this great Flickr photo set.

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Paper-Made Typography

Wed, 06 May 2009 21:07:24 -0700

Intricate paper typography made by hand (via Coudal).

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50 Totally Free Lessons in Graphic Design Theory

Tue, 05 May 2009 20:45:36 -0700

A collection of articles and tutorials on graphic design, including some previously linked to from this site.

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Modern Alphabets

Tue, 05 May 2009 20:43:42 -0700

Scanned images of type from the 1864 publication Examples of Modern Alphabets Ornamental and Plain.

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All 120 Crayon Names, Color Codes and Fun Facts

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:02:12 -0700

For the five-year-old designer inside all of us, ColourLovers nails down the Crayola color palette for onscreen design. Now you can design your links in Burnt Sienna, Carnation Pink, Cornflower or traditional Blue.

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Capturing Hand Painted Signs in the North

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 02:32:09 -0700

An otherworldly collection of sign typography from the streets of India, captured by Kayleigh Ryley at the Society of Publication Designers.

I took most of my photos from the back of a bike rickshaw in crowded side streets…It’s kind of like trying to tie your shoe while finding your way through a fun house at a county fair.

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A Horse of a Different Color

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 02:27:20 -0700

Lexington, Kentucky sports a logo of a different color for the World Equestrian Games, courtesy of Pentagram.

To me, this is what branding is all about. It’s iconic; it’s creative while keeping true to the client; and I love the saddle-blanket-as-event-banner concept.

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Vintage Supermarket Photos

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 02:21:15 -0700

My guacamole-loving friends would go crazy over the ten cent avocados. A great collection of vintage supermarket photos from the 1950s (via Coudal).

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Floating Sign Photography by Matt Siber

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:54:24 -0700

Matt Siber’s ethereal, post-modern photographs of commercial signage floating eerily in midair.

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Coudal Partners’ Layer Tennis Week 5 | Layer 1

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:51:12 -0700

Layer Tennis luchador Armin Vit puts five typographic terms in an illustrative headlock in round one of the March 20, 2009, Coudal Partners’ Layer Tennis match.

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Deep Font Challenge

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:44:59 -0700

Step on up and test your knowledge of font minutiae in this carnival-style game for typographic sharpshooters.

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Digital Marketing: The Golden Rules of the Web

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:42:23 -0700

Proverbs for socializing online from AdAge.

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Moffett’s Law

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:35:05 -0700

DesignADay’s Jack Moffet on the importance of usability in implementation:

Another way of stating this is that it is hard to make things easy…But as I told one of my co-workers today, it’s better to inconvenience one developer during implementation than to inconvenience every user for the life of the product.

Exactly.

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Exploring Cufón

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:01:05 -0700

Cameron Moll reviews the differences between the popular font embedding technique sIFR and relative newcomer Cufón, with a great set of examples.

Cufón’s lack of text selection and a :hover attribute give me pause, but I completely sympathize with Moll’s desire to never have to open Flash again.

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Ignacio Macri Logo Design

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:47:23 -0700

Inspiring set of logos from Argentinean designer Ignacio Macri (via Simplebits)

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jQuery Sparklines

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:19:03 -0700

Splunk’s Gareth Watts releases a sparkline generator plugin for jQuery that I can’t wait to try.

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Infographias Sobre Tauromaquia

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:21:57 -0700

While bullfighting elicits a range of emotions from fans and critics, these infografias sobre tauromaquia (infographics on bullfighting) from Spain garner cheers of “Olé!” for their creative spreads diagramming the ritual and pageantry of bullfighting. Also worth applauding, these bullfighting infographics from countries beyond the Iberian Penninsula.

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KÄSCH In-Floor Bathtubs Keep Luxury On the Down-Low

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:46:17 -0800

In-floor bathtubs bring openness and the vibe of jacuzzi luxury to European homes. I just hope they come with a cover so that you don’t accidently fall in.

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Fuego Modular

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:43:56 -0800

Red-hot modular outdoor kitchen by Fuego (via Coudal).

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26 Years, 85 Notebooks

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:20:23 -0800

Graphic designer Michael Bierut on the importance of notebooks.

The notebooks function like a security blanket for me. I can’t go into a meeting unless I have my current notebook in my hand, even if I never open it.

I agree. More how Michael Bierut use of design notebooks (via 43 Folders).

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Drawing Board to the Desktop: A Designer’s Path

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:13:43 -0800

A New York Times profile by Pentagram partner and graphic designer Michael Bierut:

When I arrived for class on Monday, my poster was in every hallway, in every stairwell and on every bulletin board in school. Among my peers, I was considered a good artist, but the miracle of mass production took things to a different level. More people saw my poster than would see the play. It was then that I decided to become a graphic designer.

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Inside the Graphic Design Archives at RIT

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:22:39 -0800

An amazing photo-field trip inside the Graphic Design Archives at the Rochester Institute of Technology. The Graphic Design Archives includes one of the most complete collections of the work of American graphic designers from 1950–1980 including works by Paul Rand, Lester Beall, Saul Bass and others.

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New Work: The Museum of Modern Art

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:56:36 -0800

MoMA’s Creative Director for Graphics and Advertising Julia Hoffmann reapplies the iconic MoMA logotype with the help of Pentagram, bringing a much more modern feel to the museum’s printed collateral.

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Give Up and Use Tables

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 05:36:35 -0800

A reminder against semantic navel gazing:

We’ve scientifically determined the maximum amount of time that you should need to make a layout work in CSS: it’s 47 minutes.

I’m looking forward to the 10 minutes to get a doughnut part.

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MoMA Atlantic/Pacific

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 05:32:49 -0800

Breathtaking, in a good way: MoMA’s takeover of the Atlantic Avenue/Pacific Street subway station.

In a gift to the city’s subway riders, MoMA takes over Brooklyn’s Atlantic Avenue/Pacific Street subway station, filling the station with reproductions of over 50 works of art in the MoMA collection. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, walk through the station to see images of works by Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh, Charles Eames, Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol, and many other great artists, filmmakers, and designers.

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In Brief: The Wrong Kind of Breathtaking

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 05:24:53 -0800

Brand New on the justification behind Pepsi’s new identity system:

The contents are at once hilarious, pretentious and delirious as they try to establish Pepsi as the center of the universe.

Considering the time and effort that went into the creation of this document will literally take your breath away.

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Paul-Rand.com

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:00:25 -0800

An incredibly dense resource for all things Paul Rand including a gallery of work, biography and overview of the designer’s philosophy.

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Saul Bass: Jack of All Trades

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:58:42 -0800

A great collection of movie poster and logo designs by the eminent Saul Bass.

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