September 3rd, 2010 — 10:10am

Ferocious is a curated, quarterly publication that collects illustrators, graphic artists, short fiction authors and written text.
I came across Ferocious this morning and it looks to be a beautifully curated, designed, and printed quarterly. It will certainly be at the top of my list of pubs to buy. Excellent work!
Ferocious Quarterly is published by Nate Utesch.
Via Grain Edit.
Comment » | DesignBooks, arts, cool, design, illustration, inspiration, kickass, melikey
August 31st, 2010 — 10:59am

Reconstruct is a project series by Rogier de Boevé. Excellent, beautiful work.
Comment » | Awesome, design, inspiration, melikey
August 27th, 2010 — 1:42pm

Since August 2005, We Feel Fine has been harvesting human feelings from a large number of weblogs. Every few minutes, the system searches the world’s newly posted blog entries for occurrences of the phrases “I feel” and “I am feeling”. When it finds such a phrase, it records the full sentence, up to the period, and identifies the “feeling” expressed in that sentence (e.g. sad, happy, depressed, etc.). Because blogs are structured in largely standard ways, the age, gender, and geographical location of the author can often be extracted and saved along with the sentence, as can the local weather conditions at the time the sentence was written. All of this information is saved.
I remember discovering We Feel Fine back in 2005, and it blew my mind. Very creative and inspiring project. I am posting it here today because it has just as much—if not more—value today than it did 5 years ago. And really, to some people this site may be old hat, but it’s still important enough to give a shout-out to. You never know who might discover it today and become inspired to build the next great project tomorrow.
Comment » | beautiful, cool, creativity, culture, dataporn, design, melikey, visualization, web/interactive
August 17th, 2010 — 10:16am

My friend recently forwarded me this great blog post on the great Chuck Norris, Karate master and jean inventor. Oh, how I need a pair of these special CN pants. In this ad, he’s sporting an 80′s style that is surprisingly trendy right now with the hipster crowd, especially with that sweet #1 Karate shirt. I realized that:
1.) He’s so cool, I wish I was the guy in the ad about to get my face kicked in
2.) I want Chuck Norris hair (complete with hidden death fist underneath.)
Comment » | ChuckNorris, cool, culture, melikey, thatsfunny
June 25th, 2010 — 11:35am

I have a new favorite typeface. Florian is the work of 110/design, which is based in Moscow. Beautiful legibility, large apertures, asymmetric wedge serifs, Opentype support. Fantastic. I can’t wait to buy it.
Comment » | beautiful, design, inspiration, melikey, typographic, typography