Archive for the ‘Inspiration’ Category

The Obama Logo and Other Artwork

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

Great look into the thought and concepts behind the Barack Obama ‘08 Presidential Campaign.

I must say on a personal note, that the new direction of their marketing really helped pushed the core concepts of Obama’s campaign of “change.” His website was unlike any other, their use of Social Media really enforced their grass roots, bottom-up, approach that ultimately led to victory.

Oh that Gotham font, how I love thee. Which reminds me, I really need to watch that Helvetica documentary that’s been in my Netflix queue for months now.

For more cool Barack Obama artwork, I highly reccomend checking out:

Design for Obama - Gallery of artwork with options to print on your own copies
Zazzle - Has some great pieces to purchase prints of

I thought we’d all be driving these by now..

Sunday, December 14th, 2008



Didn’t you?

It’s a 1968 Bertone Carabo Concept car with a Alfa Romeo V8, apparently Jay Leno owns it, apparently there was only one made and it’s on display in Arese, Italy at Alfa Romeo’s museum. Apparently this car was the inspiration for the famous 1971 Lamborghini Countach (one of my all-time personal favorites) according to jaylenosgarage.com. Another wedge shaped supercar.

I’m absolutely fascinated by these long hard angular body lines. Not to mention these particular photos have a really neat vibe to them. The washed out grainy film and a model who’s jumpsuit screams 1960s, combined with this unbelievably futuristic and advanced design. Well, I guess Lamborghini has continued that trend, maybe that’s why they’re so damn expensive and why most of us haven’t gotten ours

Google Teams With Life Magazine

Saturday, November 22nd, 2008

As part of Google’s mission to organize all information on everything and everything that ever happened in the world to make it accessible t anyone and continuing goal of expanding their image searches, they have partnerted with Life Magazine hosting over two million photos with plans to add all 10 million Life Magazine has in their archive. Life has said that over 95% have never been seen by the public or ever published.

The images owned by Life date back to the 1750s. Wow.

Each photo has the photographer listed, location, date, and description. Also looks like you can order prints of all the images as well. Very cool.

The photos aren’t the highest of resolutions but they’re definitely feasible for any type of screen use. Great to draw inspiration from as Life Magazine has captured incredible moments throughout the world. Truly incredible stuff.

Above is a few images I really liked after browsing for a few minutes. Who knows what some more time could turn up.

Here’s the every important link to check it out: http://images.google.com/hosted/life