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Decked out in Ghostly International

I got a pack of laptop decals from one of my favorite record labels, Ghostly International. The vinyl decals feature the Ghostly logo and go perfectly with any Macbook combination. The decals fit right over the apple logo, giving your ghost some awesome glowing eyes.  I initially put on the black decal (with much luck, I was able to line it up perfectly) and later decided I would go silver. The decal is surprisingly easy to remove, leaving no residue, but is also a bit irritating to get on just right. If you mess up you don’t really get much of a second chance depending on how far along you were – trying to pull it off will warp the decal.

I busted my silver decal, and luckily, the guys over at Ghostly were kind enough to send me over a replacement decal and I put on the new one with precision. Many thanks!! I taped down a corner, aligning it perfectly over the apple logo and then proceeded to roll the guy on. Beautiful!

I actually love both decals for the opposite reasons. I love that the Black decal is incredibly striking and actually matches the silver/black look of the recent Macbooks quite well. The thing just pops (and happens to look better in pictures). The Reflective Silver decal is very subtle, but the glowing eyes still have the same effect. Silver is also flat out cool and it looks great in person. I’ll rock the silver for now but one day in the future maybe I’ll get another pack and throw on the black. Or maybe I’ll just put one on my work computer.

The decals come in a pack of 3, including a black, reflective silver, and red sticker. They can be purchased at The Ghostly Store.

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Dijital Fix L.E.S. Opening x Hipstamatic

Photos from the grand opening of Dijital Fix’s Lower East Side location. The space is pretty amazing – store upstairs, cafe downstairs, gallery in the back.

This is so adorable.

Those aren’t manakins – that’s actually Weileen and Walice.

Creepy photo of me thanks to Eileen. Eyes very non-Asian here.

Dijital Fix founder David Auerbach.

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ICFF Offsite: Sounds Like x DDC Lab

I went to the ICFF Offsite opening of Sounds Like at DDC Lab this past Friday. The exhibition is curated by Joey Roth who released his Ceramic Speakers earlier this year. The speakers were given to nine of his favorite artists and designers to “modify and reshame using their own visual languages.” The exhibition features designers Srull Recht, John Pomp, David Lynch, Stanley Ruiz, Toblas Wong, Sougwen Chung, Matthew Waldman, Savania Davies – Keiller and Roberto Crivello and music from Miho Hatori, Matmos, Ben Frost, Sepalcure (collab between Machinedrum x Praveen & Benoît!), and Gunung Sari.

It amazes me the power of social media. I got to meet one of my favorite designers, Matthew Waldman, founder of Nooka, at the event, and from our previous contact through twitter and facebook it felt like we already knew each other. He didn’t even realize we hadn’t met in person before. Matt was (and is) super friendly and nice enough to introduce me to a bunch of cool people like Miho Hatori, Shinya Nakamura, Sherwood Forlee and Mihoko Ouchi from The. and many more. I got caught up talking to amazing people and only later realized I should’ve taken more photos! Alas.

w/ Matthew Waldman of Nooka

w/ Sherwood and Miho of the.

Matt modeling his piece which featured music by Miho Hatori.

http://soundslike.org/

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ICFF Offsite – 400 Square Feet Later: Cite Goes America

Some photos from the ICFF opening of 400 Square Feet Later: Cite Goes America curated by Alissia Melka-Teichroew and Jan Habraken.

http://www.citegoesamerica.com/

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DesignNotes – Michael Surtees’ Parsons Design IV Presentation

For a while now I have been following Michael Surtees’ DesignNotes blog. Really like this presentation he did for Parsons’ Design IV class. In his presentation he talks about the publishing of his blog, why he does it and the types of things he chooses to write about, goes through some projects he’s worked on, and then discusses Agile Design. I particularly like his ‘Why I Blog’ slide. Go check out the presentation.

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Matt McInerney’s ‘The Trustworthiness of Beards’ Graphic is Awesome

This is an amazing graphic from Matt McInerney that shows the Trustworthiness of Beards on a gradient from “Very Trustworthy” to “Disastrous.”

Check out Matt McInerney’s page at http://www.pixelspread.com

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Patrick Jean’s Pixels

PIXELS by PATRICK JEAN.

This is an amazing video for NYC and old-school arcade game lovers out there by Patrick Jean entitled “Pixels.” SO. AWESOME. Found via Michael Surtees’ DesignNotes

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123klan x Just Blaze = Awesome Super Street Fighter IV Campaign

Awesome Super Street Fighter IV “artist series” ad campaign features one of my favorite design firms, 123klan and hip-hop legendary producer Just Blaze collaborating for an awesome tv spot. Eye popping colors and as always, I love 123klan’s style. Looks kinda retro, kinda future – Super hip! I wanna play!

Check out the badass poster too!

Other artists featured in the campaign are Dalek, Futura, Cody Hudson, and Grotesk.

123klan | Just Blaze | Street Fighter

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Photoshop 5’s Content-Aware Fill Sneak Peek

Photoshop Product Manager Bryan O’Neil Hughes takes us through an amazing tool that will probably make a bunch of photo editing jobs irrelevant. That being said, this tool is SO COOL – just watch and have your mind blown. The photo stitch at the end is ridiculous. Thanks to Dinesh for the heads up on this one.

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Matt McInerny Gives Away ‘Raleway’ Font – Also Makes Cool Shirts

This is a badass font from Matt McInerny that I came across through some twitter browsing that can be related back to a post I saw by Jeff Sheldon of Ugmonk. Matt has made his font available at The League of Moveable Type. As you can see, the font is being used on the byline under the logo up top.

I also just got two t-shirts from Matt’s apparel company, Turn Nocturnal, which he runs with his friend Jack Strong. These shirts feature some nice typography. Now gotta wash ‘em and shrink ‘em so I can rock ‘em.

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Amazing Open Source Fonts

Now here’s an awesome website I’m surprised I never heard of until just now. The League of Moveable Type offers beautifully made, free & open-source fonts. Check out the website.

http://www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/