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Kernie brings us all closer together (Veer blog) 
52 min and 33 secs ago
Call it summer reminiscing or a very soft sell, but there's a new addition to the Merch store we'd be remiss in not mentioning.
In his third, limited edition incarnation, Kernie the type-loving monster stands 11" tall in faux velvet, hugging that which he (literally) holds dearest: type.
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1 h, 43 min and 33 secs ago
From hyper-animated to the positively vacant. Robbie Cooper's Immersion project aims to photograph (and ultimately study) facial expressions of people as they play video games, surf the web, and watch TV.
The New York Times has a gallery of Cooper's stills, plus a video, of kids getting their game face on.
via Mental Floss
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15 h, 4 min and 25 secs ago
A new ad for HP wireless printing – “In The Air” – brings dreamy convenience to the forefront, with a cast of holiday captures floating lazily to the printer from cameras elsewhere in the house. A lovely commercial, from the leaping monkey, through to the final frame reveal of why there's an astronaut photo amongst East Indian fare.
via Design You Trust
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3 d, 20 h and 36 min ago
Through her sculpture and drawings, Patricia Piccinini re-imagines physical and biological realities and creates scenes that are at once alien and familiar.
Perhaps the most unsettling element at work is that the inhabitants of Piccinini's world don't seem all that far-fetched, given the doors unlocked by modern science. The sculpted children who appear in many of the artworks don't seem to mind their new friends at all.
See more of The Long Awaited (pictured above) and other oddities in her online gallery.
via Coilhouse
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[1 views] 4 d and 22 h ago
In 2005, two friends attached 30 red, helium-filled balloons to a video camera, set the bundle adrift over San Francisco, and then (realizing what they had done) chased after it to retrieve the camera. The Balloon Project was born.
The project website houses videos of aerial footage and recovery missions for the 8 balloon flights worldwide, so far. Alternately, if you have a video camera taking up space and weren't sure how to rid yourself of it... this would probably work.
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5 d and 22 h ago
For the second year in a row, the Glenfiddich distillery has commissioned sculptures made from barrels, and based on their five differently aged single malt whiskies. This year, design studio johnson banks had the honors.
You can see the sculptures on display in Glasgow this week, but if that’s a bit of a commute, you can read more and see them all over at Creative Review.
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6 d and 21 h ago
Do you enjoy history, typography, and the low-rumbling blur of a New York City subway ride?
AIGA has an epic, 9-page article titled The (Mostly) True Story of Helvetica and the New York City Subway. The incredibly detailed piece was written by Paul Shaw, a calligrapher and typographer who works and teaches in New York City.
Much more could be said about how eloquent and interesting it is, but you should really just start reading the article if you hope to finish at a reasonable hour.
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7 d and 1 h ago
This past summer we ran a little photography contest called Kern the Planet. The runner up spot went to Stephanie Chrusz for her photo of Kernie-drawing kids from the Brighton School in Seoul, Korea.
This morning we received another photo of the class, posing with the runner-up prizes we sent them – a set of I Draw Pictures All Day sketchbooks to keep the drawing going.
Thanks Stephanie!
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7 d and 4 h ago
To live is to be generic (Veer blog) 10 d and 2 h ago
Clothing makes the (wo)man, but inevitably leads to categorization. Intentional or not, fashion places a subculture title on us all.
For over 14 years, Rotterdam based artists Ari Versluis and Ellie Uyttenbroek have been photographing and sorting specimens into groups of “exactitudes.”
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12 d and 1 h ago
Google is hosting (and has made searchable) millions of images from the LIFE magazine archive. The collection is a still frame documentary of over 250 years, from civil war portraits to Muhammad Ali, and rare gems like Disney artists mugging for the camera.
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12 d and 18 h ago
Illustrator Paul Kreitmann’s work is featured in a set of clever ads for Alka Seltzer, chronicling the plight of a dumpling-shaped protagonist to avoid trouble with a bear, the mob, a magician’s assistant, a beach bully, and a fellow inmate. Subtle visual humor that bolsters the tagline “Dissolve your problems.”
Via NewSugar
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12 d and 19 h ago
Old sugar has nothing going for it, but NewSugar has universal appeal. Weighing in at 112 pages, the illustration mag's new issue is filled with fresh art, plus Q&As with a cast of working illustrators.
After you check out an issue or two on their website, stop in and share your thoughts at the NewSugar group here on Veer Ideas.
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12 d and 22 h ago
A couple hundred faces in, the Unusual Suspects has turned out an amazing and eclectic variety of mugs and thugs, and one extraordinary bug.
If you tried to build a face earlier and found yourself in the 20% of patient, good looking folks with an incompatible version of Flash … we’ve updated things on our end and it should work perfectly for you now.
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14 d and 0 h ago
Maybe it’s the wide-eyed enthusiasm. Maybe it’s the way she says “grenouille”. Beyond adorable, this video of a little French girl making up a story is a burst of pure creativity.
Add an accordion track and a montage of black and white photos, and this child's imagination would be screening at your local art house theater.
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14 d and 1 h ago
Want to know more about design? Read some design books. On his new site The Designers Review of Books, designer Andy Polaine reviews only design-related books.
As Andy suggests, The Little Know-It-All could be a good place to start, and a good Christmas gift for the bathroom-reading designer in your life.
(Shout-out for the nice use of Ale Paul's Buffet Script in the masthead, too.)
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14 d and 4 h ago
It seems nothing is more magnetic (at least to us humans) than another face. A weird, distorted one? Even better. The endlessly amusing Unusual Suspects face builder app proves it (witness a few amazing contributions), as does Chris Ro's Efface book project, which achieves a similar effect on the printed page. Says Ro:
“Fourteen faces were constructed, de-constructed and fused in the hopes of assembling experiences that are simultaneously simple and yet very complex. The objective was to encounter the human face as one previously may not have encountered before.”
Via QBN
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17 d and 1 h ago
If we were handing out awards for dreaming big, today's would go to Bulgaria. Sixty years ago, a flood caused their ancient city of Seuthopolis to be submerged at the bottom of a lake. Now they're taking it back in the name of tourism.
At the hard-to-miss city limits, a circular embankment will hold water back, allowing Seuthopolis to stay dry in a 1,377 ft. diameter recess. Just enough space to hold our collective awe.
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18 d and 1 h ago
Clever street art is a constant joy. Like this set of photos by urban remodeler SpY, whose work ranges from the flower-pot-in-a-basketball-hoop variety to wielding a welding torch to liven up the city's bike racks.
If social statements aren't your thing, here's one of summer's best examples of street art as opportunistic hilarity.
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19 d and 20 h ago
Toy store FAO Schwarz and Jim Henson's Muppet Workshop appear to have joined forces, for the betterment of all mankind.
The Muppet Whatnot Workshop lets you choose a body, eyes, nose, and outfit for your puppet, preview the ensemble, and then place your order for $90. Hand rod included, for wild, frog-like exclamations.
via Jason Santa Maria
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19 d and 21 h ago
Nothing stirs the imagination like an empty page, so it's no wonder people have long been fascinated with ruins and ghost towns. There's that haunting sensation that you're all alone, but you shouldn't be... and that haunted sensation that you're all alone, but are you really? Add some historical context, years of grime, and a bank of fog rolling in and around the looping tendrils of a decrepit roller coaster, and you've got atmosphere that's off the charts.
Check out this great photo showcase of abandoned theme parks, theaters, schools, and pools.
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20 d and 20 h ago
Cool Hunting has shot, stuffed, and mounted a post about the Flickbooks service. You upload a short video and customize your book’s design, then it arrives by mail in all its low-tech flip-animation splendor.
We don’t want to sound the holiday shopping alarm, but these look perfectly gift-sized…
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21 d and 1 h ago
The stick has joined the cardboard box (and 36 objects of a more manufactured variety) in the Toy Hall of Fame.
The honor was bestowed on Thursday, with curators praising the stick's universal appeal and its versatility to become pretty much anything a child can imagine.
Would-be sword fighters, fairy wand wielders, and that quiet kid at the end of the street who pretends to be conducting an orchestra would no doubt agree.
via Wired
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23 d and 22 h ago
Friday brings a less-teasing, more-pleasing trailer for the new Pixar feature, UP. We get a better look at would-be aviator Carl Fredricksen and his magnificent flying house, plus a glimpse of his 8-year old Wilderness Scout sidekick, Russell.
The film is Pixar’s first foray into 3D, so count on wearing a pair of plastic glasses worn by thousands of people before you when this comes out next May.
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24 d and 20 h ago
Next Thursday, November 13, Under Consideration's Opposites Attract series concludes at the Art Directors Club in NYC, and it promises to be a good one:
"The final event brings together Gail Anderson (of famed Broadway designers SpotNYC) and Robynne Raye (of famed agency Modern Dog), two designers with a range of work that, in spirit, is endlessly adventurous, entertainingly boisterous, and disarmingly witty — all with decidedly opposite results."
If you'll be in NYC, don't delay, as these events are very well attended. Tickets range from $15 to $30 at the ADC site.
But, since the series is sponsored by Veer, I happen to have a few free tickets. To win, be the first to answer this skill-testing question:
Who designed the typeface that Gail Anderson used in the Chris Rock poster spread (above)?
E-mail your answer to Jon at Veer dot com.
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[1 views] 24 d and 21 h ago
Utility boxes, in the utilitarian tradition, favor function over form. Joshua Callaghan helps the necessary hide in plain sight by masking the grey/green monoliths with photographs of the blocked views, digitally printed on adhesive vinyl.
It's a fragile illusion that breaks easily – if you approach from the wrong angle, are too close or too tall, if the environment changes, or the season changes, or the light changes... but nonetheless, it's a clever camouflage that holds up from the predictable approach points, and even the awkward ones at a glance.
via MAKE
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25 d and 0 h ago
You’re trapped in a stark white world, paint gun in hand, and your only chance for survival is … abstract expressionism?
In the yet-to-be-finished video game project The Unfinished Swan, you lay aside the usual weapons of destruction and get your Jackson Pollack on.
When the paint flies, surfaces are revealed and depth is established and you can move slightly less blindly through the environment. Even the description is abstract — best just roll the video.
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26 d and 19 h ago
Sometimes, even new things beg to be refurbished. Kevin Jackson and friends did-it-themselves with an IKEA Fira drawer unit and our fifth anniversary catalog. Presumably because they needed somewhere to put their chainsaws parts, lumberjack shirts, and type sorts. Or, maybe because they knew it would turn out so great.
See more photos of their project on Flickr.
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[1 views] 27 d and 22 h ago
Correct nature's oversight and don fabulous facial hair at the Build a Beard Workshop. Then, take a photo of your newly unshaven self and upload it to the online gallery.
If hilarity and bearded glory aren't enough of an incentive, for every photo uploaded, the workshop will add $1 to your account on Kiva – an organization that helps you lend money to entrepreneurs in developing countries.
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31 d and 19 h ago
You may have already seen Cherry mentioned in our latest marketing, but there's a very charming aspect to this new illustration brand that warrants a personal introduction.
Illustration styles vary as wildly as illustrators themselves, and there are (with all respect to trombonists) few arts where personal style is so pronounced. A glance at any illustrator's portfolio reveals consistencies in palette, techniques, tone – elements that seem shared by a larger, emerging world.
The why is as telling as the how. Illustrators are modern-day alchemists, their concoctions rich with meaning. An illustration can be a mood ring, a soapbox, a love letter, or an epic story. They evoke and confide, jest and sway. Whatever is required or desired.
An appreciation of these subtleties is at the heart of the Cherry collection. Each contribution has a considered, hand-crafted preciousness that outshines the underlying commercial transactions. They are the delicious fruits of a labor of love.
ps. Explore Cherry here.
pps. The illustration above is by Adam S. Doyle.
ppps. Veer loves illustrations, and the illustrating illustrators who illustrate them.
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