Food Icons

Julian Burford, a Netherlands-based graphic designer has created a series of eight perfect food icons for an upcoming iPhone app. These look so good, you want to eat them and that's not an easy thing to achieve. Those who tried to render or design food know how hard it is to make something look remotely appetizing.

I remember trying to make a hand-drawn Snickers bar look edible back in College, sans Photoshop. Don't even get me started on trying to illustrate milk.

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Ampersands Rock!

Recently, I was looking at some ampersands to use in a logo I was fantasizing about making, (given that it's one of those little personal projects of mine, it might never see the light of day), and I realized how much I love it.

The ampersand & (yes, that eight-lookalike symbol everyone's having trouble drawing has a name and a history, which is actually worth reading on wikipedia) always fascinated me because, i) it was always a challenge to draw and, ii) I don't know, I guess the fact a character deriving from two letters, which bears a story and meaning, excites the graphic designer in me. So, imagine my reaction when I found this blog on the SwissMiss blog. 300&65 Ampersands is essentially a daily celebration of the ampersand, one everyday. 

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An Apple A Day Calendar

Ok, first of all, it's calendar, and never calender... (I just get annoyed when I see that mistake).

This gorgeous letterpress calendar wants to keep you healthy; it encourages you to eat an apple a day, and use the stickers on it to mark the days gone on the calendar. 

You can get one here.

Accidental Constellations

Who said grids aren't sexy? Accidentally created while trying to finish a layout in InDesign.

Sweden

A visual list of all things Swedish.

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Mac Users + Designers = Get The Joke

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The Pop-Up Book Of Phobias

This book explores the most common human phobias. There's way too much work in this book, I cannot begin to imagine how they did this! Apparently, though, pop-up stuff are pretty popular these days, with the pop-up office, the pop-up calendar, and Visionnaire also released a pop-up book.

FYI: I counted at least three of my phobias in this book.

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Stuff White People Like

I loved this series of witty posters. More info below.

Text from Béhance:

Stuff White People Like poster series took the concept of pasting up the same poster for a single event. However, we created 129 different ones for Christian Lander's visiting lecture at the University of Arkansas. Each poster reflects each blog post on stuffwhitepeoplelike.com. Collaboration with Joel Eikenberry.

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Anamorphic Helvetica

More info here.

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Serif Tote Bag & A4 Tee

I know a certain someone who'd love that serif tote, and I would love that A4 tee. I do love being a graphic designer... (via)