Introducing: Animal Collective with "My Girls" and the movie clip animated by Jon Vermilyea

Animal Collective is a musical collective originally from Baltimore, Maryland, currently based in New York City. The band members met in school and started recording together in various forms of collaboration from a young age. Records released under the name Animal Collective's tracks may include contributions from any or all of the members; the lineup is not uniform. Their music is hard to define, it sound as they experiment with diverse styles and ideas from album to album. Animal Collective on MySpace

The reason why I'm posting anything on this band is the video called "My Girls", that was brought to me by my friend Florian. I immediately fell in love with both, hypnotising tune and the clip!

I'd like to also mention the man, who animated "My Girls". Jon Vermilynea is an outstanding, New York based illustrator, animator and comic book artist. Jon Vermilynea

Animal Collective Animal Crack Box 3LP boxed setArt directed and designed by Rob Carmichael, 4 color silk screen box and LP sleeves

Beasts! Book Two, Fantagraphics Books

He-Man and the 13 Trials of Eternia, silkscreen

bold design association is online

The BOLD Design is a collaboration of three designers of a French origin - Julien Benayoun and William Boujon. Ever since its emergence, BOLD has never been so active. The new website and projects are now on show. I can also proudly announce to be the author of BOLD's fine logotype. Ta-dam!

bold-design

BOLD also can be found on facebook






Revolution, a collection of pieces of furniture and objects based on a system, Julien Benayoun


Blowing Shapes, a result of a research on shapes, taking into account two universes : the digital manufacturing and the traditional blowing of the glass, William F. Boujon

TYPE PLAYER's delivered

I received a copy of Type Player, a book, in which my type works ('Merry Christmas' and '2009 Oh Yeah!' cards) are published next to pieces of Stefan Sagmeister, Underware or Via Grafik. Sweet!

FUNDBÜRO: NBP

NBP stands for National Bank of Poland. This beautiful type comes from a polish banknote that was used from 1972 to 1996. It was withdrew because of denomination in 1995. We may discuss the readability of "P" but still - lovely, classic monogram!

Attent

A photo-memory from the night behind the bar and many others at the Attent, a particular art gallery-music center-nite club in Charloise, south Rotterdam, NL.

All FB'ers are welcome to join the Attent Group

Jordan McAfee Photography

I've recently completed a project of visual identity and website design for Jordan McAfee, promising New York photographer.

The website was coded by DeniseDesign

www.jordanmcafee.com

Harvest Feastival

I had a chance to watch a beautiful performances of two folk ensembles: Polish "Warszawianka" and "Volynianka" from Ukraine. Amazing colours, costumes and those red Sindbad style trousers!

Hrvatska - Balkan winds

hello from Poznań

urbanistyka.info

Urbanistyka.info is a first ever Polish portal dedicated to urban planning and I am the author of the logo.

BBQ - ash.lo.fra.ren.ka

BBQ/picnic in a great company in Vroesen Park in Rotterdam.


Photos by Renate and Frank

Introducing: Fontplore

Fontplore is an interactive application designed for searching and exploring font databases. Fontplore helps you to easily find the right typeface for your project in a collection of several thousands of fonts.(...) And the clou is: It does all that on an interactive table, using tangible objects to navigate and control actions, so the workflow is easy to understand - easy to grasp!"


via www.fontplore.org
The Fontplore application was developed by Christian Hertlein and Marcus Paeschke in summer 2009 under the supervision of Till Nagel and professor Boris Müller | design.fh-potsdam.de

FUNDBÜRO: Old Colour Positive Films [Slides]

Few days ago we received a set of old slides from our friend Ash. We found there photographs taken probably on a trip to Paris and few stops on the road. I choose three slides which I liked the most, scanned them to find details and get some informations on the places, where the pictures were taken. I discovered some cute lettering and messages carried by the signs. With a little help of the world wide web I found out where these photos where taken!

Picture No. 1
I found a sign on the streamer that is on pennant just below the yellow shield with a black bear. As it appeared later this is a coat of arms of Meulebeke, a town in located in Belgian province of West Flanders. The things that the first and most caught my eye were of course the signs in shop windows. Some more details below.



Picture No. 2
On this lovely picture you can see a shield of Nieuwpoort, a municipality located in West Flanders as well. After I saw these two coat of arms, I thought that possibly both pictures were taken in the capital of West Flanders, which is Bruges[fr.]/Brugge[nl.]. According to google the 'Van Mullem' (that's on the picture called 'Institute de Beaute'), the Pharmacy and 'Falleyn' (the next shop with pink awning) are still there, on Noordzandstraat :)



Here's a picture I found on panoramio of the Pharmacy and how it looks nowadays. Still has the same signboard!


Photo by Ainars M-3

Few details to enjoy the tasty resolution of slides and the retro lettering:




Picture No. 3
I choose this picture, because it was very different from the rest of slides - a little plane, particular colours and pretty fine composition.
I managed to read few words of the small sign that is placed on the bottom of the plane. Apparently the plane is the Spad VII a famous 'Vieux Charles' which was flown by Captain Georges Guynemer untill 1917, when he served with the squadron 'Les Cigognes' (the storks). 'Vieux Charles' is now conserved in Le Musee de l'Air et de l'Espace is north of Paris at Le Bourget airport. But the picture was probably taken in Salle Foch in Paris, according to a photo (same ceiling) I found on www.earlyaviator.com



Georges Guynemer in front of his Spad fighter plane.



The symbol of 'Les Cigognes' squadron, 1916. Quite a fighter stork!


Design by Albin Denis, both pictures via L'escadrille SPA 3