designcloud:

Kalashnipuzzle by Art van Tries

A puzzle you’re not allowed to make: kalashnipuzzle is a kalashnikov gun cut to pieces in the familiar shape of a puzzle. According to Dutch law, a non-working gun-like object is already prosecutable. Everyone who sees the object immediately wants to solve the puzzle, but the result is illegal.

designcloud:

The Last Billboard

A 36-foot-long billboard located at the corner of Highland and Baum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Every month, a different individual is invited to take over the billboard to broadcast personalized messages, which are spelt out using wooden letters that are changed by hand. 

you can follow it’s tumblr here. 

betype:

9 Books and 1 Game for the Graphic Designer.

In this past year, I’ve published some interesting books and items related to typography, this is a recap of some of the best featured here on betype. In case you regretted not had given any christmas gift to your Graphic designer friend, the new year eve is another chance to vindicate yourself.

1. Steal Like An Artist: http://amzn.to/1cy6y0D
2. The Geometry of type: http://amzn.to/18IQpBY
3. Manage Your Day To Day: http://amzn.to/11uyt7h
4. Maximize Your Potential: http://amzn.to/1dRslym
5. Hand To Type: http://amzn.to/15AKKQf
6. Thinking With Type: http://amzn.to/1a4WZGg
7. Shadow Type: http://amzn.to/16h50kP
8. Flip The Script: http://amzn.to/1bdPmKs
9. Inside Paragraphs: http://amzn.to/JXvzah
10. Typeface Memory Game: http://amzn.to/11KocYK

Click on every name to see the original post or click the link to see where to buy it.

designcloud:

Betype’s Against Cancer by Byron Galan.

Byron’s Mom was diagnosed with Uterine Cancer stage 3, so he made an Indiegogo campaign to help her with the treatment.

“Byron: I made this poster to promote my campaign, I want to capture the attention of the young people that aren’t aware of Cancer by making a contrast of concepts, sometimes we are pissed off by little things as a dropped ice cream or youtube restrictions but if you stop and think how many people have hard problems in the world like cancer you will think twice before getting anger. Is far more easy to capture your attention with a simple and cute icon of a funny thing than showing the word in all caps: CANCER.”

Even when the Indiegogo’s campaign achieve the goal, you can still donate, as he said: “you know $5k is a small amount if you think at the whole treatment, so you can still donate the real goal is surpass the $5k and hit the $10k”.

If you want to help him you can make a donation here and get a shirt for $25 donation:
betype.co/cancer.

scott-dootson:

USP - Prototype

I’ll have this completed by tomorrow. Super easy to make, visually effective and cheap to produce. I need to incorporate my contact details so I’ll more than likely include by website address on the back of the wooden block.

During the creation period have have really adopted the attitude of ‘less is more’. I wanted the concept to do the talking and so I’ve used as little text as possible.

Still got more work to do but its really come together the way i planned.

Be great when all the loose ends are tied up.

ianbrooks:

A Spark is All It Takes by Charlotte Estelle Littlehales

The math: 2,600 matchsticks, 720 minutes to create, and 1 minute of fiery immolation to undo it all; Charlotte’s typographic matchstick design is a testament to the creative and sometimes destructive power of imagination.

Artist: Behance / Website / Tumblr