clutter montage 001 by roberthuffstutter (cc by)
Welcome to cluttercore. People have opinions! In fact, every nook and cranny of this thread on TikTok's newest design trend is filled with different, fun, colorful opinions!
And in other news on filling things to the brim, Remittance by the Barrel is an interesting read about Caribbean communities carefully, lovingly curating barrels of items to ship to relatives outside of the U.S. Nice!
What Might this Cardi B?
Speaking of things found on the ground (earlier), Mystery Card. Do you recognize it?
Moasic Monday : feb 25 by ali edwards (cc by-nc-nd)
carlypennylane asks Where are the Visual Inspiration Websites These Days?
Fireman's coat decorated with a depiction of the Toad Spirit
Waiting to come home by mripp (cc by)
Dame posted Retours, "a digital magazine on the intersection of railway history, design and photography."
Famous renamed Crayola crayons, via Wikimedia
In Ask Metafilter, signal is looking for examples of or resources for identifying inherent biases in different kinds of design (industrial, service, interface, graphic, etc.)
IMG_20140630_110754 by anadem (cc by-nc-sa)
anadem asks advice in Ask Metafilter: I made a little boat, a skin-on-frame canoe. It floats nicely when empty, but when I get in it tips me out. I want to make another boat that's more stable with me in it.
Don't miss the cool photos of the building process linked in the post!
The Letter Carrier short film
Furnished: Film and Furniture furnishes you with fascinating facts about the décor in your favourite films
Unfurnished: This Is The Most Filmed In Alley In NYC
Selling the sizzle: This Is Why You Can't Stop Watching Movie Trailers
Selling the steak: Why Dwayne Johnson is the new Schwarzenegger
Crossed: "A Report Of Connected Events," short film blurs the lines between reality and our favourite stories
Double-crossed: Wild Things ... 12 double-crosses in a movie with a runtime of 108 minutes
Defining: Polish Radio Experimental Studio influenced animation soundtracks for generations to come
Redefining: a three-part essay series on costume design for heroic female characters
Time and space: This May Be Stanley Kubrick Explaining the End of 2001
Time and place: "The Letter Carrier," exquisite, chilling fable in a short film
...sometimesnowhere.. by *ines_maria
Take a moment to look around you. Really look. See the city — the streets, the buildings, the spaces between them — and realize for a moment that virtually everything you see has been designed and shaped by men. Now imagine what it would be like if it were women-led. — Katrina Johnston-Zimmerman
supercrayon's Cities of ladies post is a stunning collection of great links about women-built cities, gender, women and urbanism / city planning.
Belle Shore Deco Detail by Atelier Teee (cc by-nc-nd)
What do Art Deco and Archaeology have in common? Quite a bit, if you look at enough Art Deco architecture. Another fabulous deep-dive post from filthy light thief!
Steampunk Pirates cards by Nat Iwata at wopc.co.uk
misteraitch reveals a full house in his post on the World of Playing Cards, "a living encyclopaedia of the history and visual art of playing cards"
Dog Intelligence by alicejamieson (cc by-nc-nd)
Learning a thing or two, recently in Ask:
How can I improve my vocabulary?
What are some self-help, therapy-ish books that have really helped you?
Where do I learn how to give an injection?
I need to improve my skills at making mobile apps (and websites) usable and beautiful.
And in Mefi blue, Start Your Art Journey Today: a series of drawing lessons for free for all beginners and anyone looking to refresh their artistic skills
Ramses condom package design
Ramses condoms are named after Ramses II, who had almost 160 children. Condoms are kind of all about preventing lots of kids ... And the Trojans famously let a large object inside their city which discharged a swarm of invaders that destroyed it. Again, isn't this exactly the opposite of what a condom should do? – Sangermaine
Arousing, spacey, spicy and dashing design recently on Mefi: Vintage condom package designs; An extravagant symbol of a man who can’t hide his true nature – A brief history on Spats; Taxi Fabric connects young Indian designers with taxi drivers; When Airlines Looked Cool and Showed It, posters from flying's golden age; In the '70s, NASA commissioned a redesign of their "meatball" logo... unfortunately a lot of NASA engineers hated it. And of course, Mefites weigh in on the Google logo redesign.
and in the Green: Who originated the ubiquitous laser/neon grid design of the '80s?; Cool examples of generative art?; How can I make beautiful Powerpoint Slides?; "The best way I can describe it is 'whimsical'" – Where can I get more plates like this?
Design Faves Logo Design by The Logo Smith (cc by-nc-nd)
In Ask Me recently:
Online resources for teaching basics of good document design?
Give me your colorful, cute, glam office supplies yearning to be free
Looking for the best dish drying rack ever
concept sketch of shoe art
Member rodeoclown shares an incredible story of designing custom Nike shoes along with a young diabetes patient, and the extra lengths they went to make it really great.
One "on the side" project I've been lucky enough to do was creating a special shoe for a 10-year-old boy as part of a long-running fundraiser (for the past 10+ years, Nike has worked with kids from the Doernbecher Children's Hospital here in Portland, letting them design custom shoes, actually bringing them into production, then selling and donating all proceeds to the hospital... ~$8 million dollars raised so far.)
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