Lincoln One-Cent Redesign
Are you KIDDING me? It’s like we’re trying to have the ugliest money on the planet. And succeeding.
Hi. I'm Matt Kirkland, a web & industrial designer.
I'm a part of Brand New Box, a web design and development firm in San Diego. We make City Gates, the content management system for church websites.
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CUSTOM LETTERS - FIRST HALF 2009 — LetterCult
“… the good, the great, and the notable stuff we’ve seen so far in 2009.” Inspiration for my little Catechism Project.
June 17, 2009: The peasants' refrain
I absolutely love this. At first it seemed awkward, but as it repeats throughout the poem it becomes quite lovely - a beautiful, chorus-like refrain. It’s almost incantatory.
“We argued and argued,
Latin Vulgate Bible with Douay-Rheims Side-by-Side
Book Nerd Alert! This is a parallel translation of the Latin Vulgate (the translation British people were reading from, say, the seventh century to 1604). It’s all online, and yet I still feel the…
Marco Brambilla: Civilization
An astoundingly complex video installation in an elevator. Elevator goes up, the video pans along with it, from hello to heaven. Beautiful and disturbing. I’d love to see this in person!
The giraffe-proof fence has its first friend!
Check out the wild costumes created by Estelle Hanania (follow the link and then click ‘Demoniac Babble’). These strike a very similar note to the insane african tribal costumes that we saw at the Natural History Museum last fall. I’m fascinated and disturbed.
June 2, 2009: Trueman on blog attacks
“The gung-ho ferocity of blog attacks is often matched only by the oleaginous fawning of the webwarriors when encountered in the flesh, something which I confess has been, on occasion, a source of…
LOU ROMANO: ART of UP
Fantastic viz work for Pixar’s UP. These are all great, but I’m really impressed with the ‘color script’ at the end here.
