Ampersand love
While designing my wedding invitations, I have acquired a new, fond appreciation of the ampersand. Check out my homies Baskerville & Baskerville Italic‘s curves, wow.
Harry Beck, infographic artist from the 30′s
“The two maps on the top are only a few months apart; however, they are separated by a drastic shift in mindset. The one on the left is the foldout map from 1932, still trying to conform to the geographical accuracy of its many stations. The one on the right, from 1933, was the brainchild of engineering draftsman Harry Beck, who decided to disregard geography for sake of legibility and understanding, leading to an irreversible path to abstraction.”
“A Summer’s Past” Linocut, 2002
Here’s a serious blast from the past, a linocut I did during my undergraduate years at Smith College. I majored in Studio Art and concentrated in Digital — but I sure loved my printmaking courses. After all those years of playing with digital ink, I had to fight against instinct and finally get my hands dirty in the real deal, oil-based litho ink that we used for our linoleum cuts and lithograph prints.
“A Summer’s Past” is featured in the student artwork gallery of the Smith Art department website.
Mary: Time Spent Daily
I was pondering about where my time is spent on an average daily basis so I drew a chart to visualize it. While a fair estimation of how my time is spent, my productivity level needs its own chart.
Story of “Little Red Riding Hood” in infographics
A designer named Tomas Nilsson interprets the fairytale of “Little Red Riding Hood” using informational graphics and animations. My favorite visualization is right around 1:25.
Web 2.0-ified America
Q: What would the United States flag, dollar bill and square states look like if they were updated to web 2.0 standards?
A: They’d have pink gradients, beta seals, bubbley text and rounded corners for sure!
Periodic Table of Typefaces
“As with traditional periodic tables, this table presents the subject matter grouped categorically. The Table of Typefaces groups by families and classes of typefaces: sans-serif, serif, script, blackletter, glyphic, display, grotesque, realist, didone, garalde, geometric, humanist, slab-serif and mixed.”
Periodic Table of Typefaces from Behance Network
My wedding address labels
Here’s a sneak peak of my wedding address labels (pseudo-address included). Hee.
Google cookies
We had an event at the office today and it was sponsored by my department, the User Experience team at Google. To help seal the deal, I designed the cookies with Google stars, map pins and search buttons on them. Huge hit throughout the company! And yummy too.
NYC subway hieroglyphs
Often dismissed as cryptic by the common New Yorker, these NYC subway hieroglyphs actually provide some interesting information about our beloved subway cars to the MTA maintenance people. I think the decals are visually interesting, too.
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