prosthetic knowledge

Geometee

Online geometric generative pattern editor created for tshirts in mind. Several presets available for customization, including text editing.

Try it out for yourself here

Covers

Chrome browser-only online experiment uses a selection of album covers and turns them into real-time audio visualizations:

Css3 / JS albums artworks with realtime music analytics thanks to beatdetektor.js 

There are only a few at the moment, with more being worked on. You can try it out for yourself here

Living 90′s Graphism by Maxime Guyon 

Photography project takes a particular style of mid 80’s / 90’s graphic design and recreates it with real-world objects.

More examples can be found at wanderingbears here

Maxime Guyon’s Tumblr can be found here

Triangulated Binary 

Graphic design project converts number and alphabet characters into triangular forms. Embedded below is a Triangulated Binary clock:

You can follow the project and the various creative forms it takes at this Tumblr blog here.

Geometry Daily 

Tumblr blog by designer @tilman who creates a geometric composition everyday:

Why are you doing this?
I love it. I get a serious flow when I draw simple shapes, combine them and experiment until they start to “sing”. I’m a designer with all my heart. It’s an experiment. A journey into a world of possibilities.
Also I am currently taking a year off of “normal” agency design work. Until September 2012 I stay at home and look after my two little kids while my wife returned to her full-time job. Doing this graphics project besides my dad duties will keep me on my designer’s toes.

Why geometry?
I love geometry. Lines, curves, rectangles, circles, triangles are a simplification of our real world but also their building blocks. Geometry, like physics or mathematics, defines how our world is constructed. I find endless beauty in this construction. I see god in there.

You can see more and follow the blog here

Shanghai Expression: Graphic Design in China in the 1920s and 30s 

50 Watts displays a fantastic selection on of early 20th Century Modernist Graphic Design.

Much more visual greatness here

designboom’s 404 GIF animation

Wallpaper Pin-ups

Alphabet commissioned by Wallpaper for their Sex and Art issue.
Animation by the one and only Maki Yoshikura

Eurobus by Taylor Holland

Photographic collection documenting graphic design featured on European Tour Buses.

There are many more to be found at Taylor’s website here

UPDATE: Taylor Holland has a Tumblr blog

Typ by Ahmed Sabbagh

A collection of experimental Arabic typography. 

Much more can be found at the designer’s Behance Network page here

Portfolio of Scott Campbell

Impressive collection of work, ranging from graphic design, illustration, and screen-printing.

The full portfolio can be seen at his website here
[Via ISO50]

Swiss Graphic Design History - Flickr Set By Alk1 

MODERN DEFENSE IS ELECTRONIC

Transitron Ad from October 1960. Designed by Chermayeff & Geismar (confirmed by an issue of Idea, a Japanese graphic design magazine)

Via bustbright

Creative Tents From Field Candy

Initially reminds me of the imaginary T-Shirt / sweater designs of BAD SMELLING BOY (which have done the rounds on Tumblr), these are actually real. Tent covers with designs from artists and graphic designers. From The Cool Hunter:

FieldCandy tents do not give you camouflage protection in the natural setting, nor do they help you blend in with the rest of the crowd at the campsite. FieldCandy tents are designed to stand out.

So, through a two-year development process, Jersey, UK-based FieldCandy has created what we did not know we needed. Until now. They selected a group of 20 or so artists and designers – photographers, graphic designers, illustrators, branding and advertising designers – to create designs that were then transferred to the ultra-light, waterproof flysheet that covers the two-person tent.

More info at The Cool Hunter here

Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy by Henry A. Kissinger, 1958. 

Cover by Peter Piening, typography by Edward Gorey.

From Kyle K’s Flickr photostream