modern proverbs

The world has changed a lot since proverbs such as "A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle" and "A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step" were spoken, and as such, Nikki Farquharson has created a book of 65 Modern Proverbs. Her proverbs are riddled with modern references including Facebook, rehab, and our generation's obsession with sushi [because seriously, when they said "Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day, Teach him to fish and he'll eat for a lifetime," I'm fairly certain no matter how said man acquired fish, they assumed he would cook it.] Here are a few of my favorites: 

commander in writing.

OK people. As soon as people start getting jobs, interest rates return to sane levels, and people are once again traveling, shopping and dining, then maybe we can nominate him for sainthood, but shouldn't he have to prove himself worthy of such martyrdom? 

The latest in the Obama-rama is a new font based on the 44th president's handwriting [he's a leftie]. It can be yours for just $15.95 - 20% of which goes to charity. Now  you can sign your own legislation, or something like that... 

seeds of cards

Dowling Design created these adorable business cards for a Garden Designer. They are shaped like the little makers you stick in your garden and the horizontal lines  breaking up the contact information even help give it a similar feel. 

I really love seeing fun innovative business cards, but there is a downside to designing them. While they are likely to garner attention when handing them out, the drawbacks are that they are harder to slip into your pocket or business card holder when out and about networking, and they also do not fit into traditional rolodexes [some peoples still use them!], nor do they fit into those business card books. 

the ultimate promise.

These fonts truly make my skin crawl. My favorite art dept. professor ever in college used to just go off on tangents about the evilness that is the comic sans type and I think that everyone should be forced to sign it... or maybe we should just destroy the fonts altogether. The poster is available via Lure Logic. 

power to the poster

              

Power to the Poster is a "graphic design democracy movement" where artists can upload 11x17 politically motivated posters and the general public can then download the posters and post them up in places. Most of the posters are extremely liberal, but some are a little bit more mild like these two. 

Olympic Posters: 100 Years

Besides a handful of sports, I'm not that interested in the Olympic Games, except of course the design the comes out of them. I've already covered the logos, and what do you do with logos? Make posters! In June a new book, A Century of Olympic Posters was published which chronicles the evolution of the historically significant posters over the past 100 years. But you don't have to buy the book to see some of them, check out the collection that Abduzeedo has compiled.