The Sartorialtwist

We all know The Sartorialist and bear our opinions about him and his blog. I am personally fascinated and intimidated by it, if that is even possible. Anyhow, I was very excited to find The Sartorialtwist, which uses images from Scott Schuman's blog cuts them in three modules (head, torso, legs) and shuffles them randomly. Some of the resulting images are super-stylish. Please don't make this guy stop using Schuman's images!

Tony Kelly for American Apparel

Photographer Tony Kelly directed this video featuring mini breakdancers Jalen Testerman and Lil Demon, for American Apparel. One minute and 18 seconds of pure "feel-good".

How Appropriate!

Selected as Cover of the Day, June 13, 2011 by the Society of Publication Designers. I wonder why? Probably because it's SPOT ON!

In Anticipation: True Blood

In anticipation of the 4th Season premiere in about two weeks (June 26th), I thought it'd be appropriate to post this little masterpiece. Especially since I never posted it before.

Anyone else excited about this?

Well Played, Chanel

Chanel's Makeup Creative Director, Peter Philips, created this awesome (stop motion?) animation for the new Chanel Makeup ad. Makeup robots? Why, yes of course!

Well played, Chanel. Very well played.

(via ouffou)

Vitsœ

Vitsœ is a furniture manufacturer for the past 50 years. Timelessly designed by Dieter Rams.

Linotype: The Film

This post might not "touch" everyone, but the typographically aware and design aficionados will definitely feel a certain warmth. 

Linotype: The Film is a documentary film about the Linotype casting machine. The Linotype casting machine revolutionized printing and communication at a time when the process of casting and printing text was a manual and time-consuming procedure. What the Linotype essentially did, was to set a full line of type (Line o' Type) instead of having it done by hand, character by character (or matrix by matrix in this case). 

I remember trying to manually set a body of text when I was college and I found it extremely hard, frustrating and stressful. So, I can imagine (and I envy) the enthusiasm and admiration these people bear for the Linotype. I mean, if something came along and took away a painfully dreadful procedure of my work (hello, quotations and invoicing) I would worship it the exact same way, if not more.