The Typeface LOVE Connection!

Please, fonts have feelings too you know! They also have personalities.
(Except for Comic Sans and Papyrus - they are each dumb as bricks).

So what happens when a font gets lonely?

Enter the Type Connection! As her final thesis for a M.F.A. from MICA, Aura Seltzer designed an online dating game for typefaces!

From her site:

Type Connection is an online game that helps users learn how to pair typefaces. Like a conventional dating website, Type Connection presents potential “dates” for well-known, workhorse typefaces. Users are matchmakers. They decide what kind of match to look for by choosing among several strategies for combining typefaces.

Brilliant! The accompanying exhibit is now closed, but the website is still up.
Help out some wanting typefaces!

And here's the story behind the project at Felt & Wire!

Archimedes’ Scale Fruit Bowl! aka science is fun!

Archimedes’ Scale operates on the principle of buoyancy, submerging part of its body up to the appropriate line to measure the dry ingredients within.

That is pretty darn brilliant.

Or how about the Principle of Communicating Vessels?

This principle states that the liquid levels in two “communicating” containers will stay at equal levels in both. By making use of this principle, these vessels keep potted flowers and cut flowers supplied with fresh water.

And there's more amazing product designs from Acquacalda Designs on their site here!
Where were these when I was in grade school!? via

iPhones regress to the 1800's (a.k.a. the trend of modern vintage products).

Rotary Dialer for your smartphone! For those times when you need to dial someone FAST (<---sarcasm)

via Can't hear you youngster! Let me get my iPhone MEGAPHONE
Megaphone from RACOON_STUDIO on Vimeo. Via Or perhaps you just need a sneaky pocket bookcover to hold your phone?

via I guess it's true, what's old is new again?

Brickhut Movie Posters - Getting to the Crux

My new favorite blog!
Brickhut.. where movie posters are boiled down to the important bits.
I like to play the game of "Can I guess the movie before I read the title?" Really brilliant design!

Art Directors Club Posters "Get it"

I'm sure every can appreciate these :)

From the illustrator, Rami Niemi:

DDB in New York liked some of my stuff, so they asked me to draw a series of posters for Art Directors Club, based on their ideas. These were used for a call-of-entries campaign. What a job! So much fun… man. Thanks to everybody at DDB and ADC.

More at Design Work Life!

Have you seen me?

Via Molly!
And here's some more goodies from
Neatorama and Heavy

Bitter Chocolatier or Angry Ex Chocolate Packaging

This is the most amazing packaging I have ever seen.
Really.
No, seriously.

The Dieline sums it up "Poking fun at himself, The Bitter Chocolatier tells his tales of misfortune throughout his life through the different flavours"

Get it? Cause he's BITTER! and needs Chocolate to get through it! (that last bit might be my interpretation).

Too bad this is student work, cause I would like one of each.... maybe personalized....

via The Dieline

Solar Powered Lounge Chair for the Outdoors!

THIS IS OUR FUTURE!

From If It's Hip, It's Here (obvs):

Professor of the Practice of Architecture, Sheila Kennedy, and a group of Design, Architecture and Engineering students from MIT have designed solar-energy storing modern wood rockers on which you can lounge and chat or charge. Smartphones, cell phones, mp3 devices, laptops and other gadgets can be connected via USB. What's more, the soft rockers are designed with a solar powered ambient light that gives them a soft glow in the dark.

P.S. Hmm... I'm not sure if I could fit more adjectives into the title (<---sarcasm). SO here are some more that I can come up with! Super-power, electrical, eco-savvy, brilliant, useable, genius, pretty, need-able... that's all I can come up with. You guys have any others?

P.S.S. I love MIT <-link to an awesome project my buddy Don helped develop.

Tiny Felted Bear Skin Rug - aka Great Beer/Bear Coaster!

 

Sometimes while I'm browsing Etsy, something so spectacular crops up, I have to repost. As in - HOLY CRAP THIS IS AMAZING! Look at dem teeth!

Quote from FforFelt:

This is a 100% wool brown bear skin.
He hasn't been hunted, on the contrary, he voluntarily left the Wool Mountains to support the cause, so make sure you treat him cool! :)

Perfect for holding a whiskey on the rocks at my unicorn hunting lodge.

Cheers!

I think it's safe to say I applaud your "black-ish side of humor"

Curiousity Calendar for May: TIKI-Tastic!

Awww!!! Curiousity Calendar for May has arrived!

We're so excited here at work... that oh... like 10 of us (slight exaggeration) just had a giant paper cutting party! Now we all have Desktop Tikis with a Secret Friend inside!

Adorables! Print from the pdf here! and a link to the others!

The Joys of Sugar Induced Super Hyperactivity... and Mean Mommies!!!!

New favorite site EVER.EVVVEEEERRRRRRR.

Becca sent this over with the caveat "Maybe you shouldn't be reading this in class. Last time I read this I was laughing so hard I thought I was dying". (Complete paraphrasing and embellishment for exaggeration's sake - I would NEVER read blogs in class... nor would Becca die laughing).

But she was right! OH DARN WAS SHE RIGHT!
The chick that writes Hyperbole and a Half takes her childhood memories, ramps them up on crack, draws funny little doodles and basically BLOWS MY MIND!!!!

The best reading so far has been The God of Cake (doodles above). All Allie wants is a tiny sliver of her grandpa's cake... then UNLEASHES THE FURY!

Butterbeer Cupcakes!

How genius is this!?
Butterbeer flavored Cupcakes - inspired by Harry Potter's alcoholic drink!
(note: no actual alcohol, but they use cream soda - still delicious!)

The whole recipe/post is over at Amy Bites!!

Now off to a Harry Potter themed party! (Marathon of all 7 movies? That's what... 21 hours? No problem!)

Sad Boyfriends Make Sad Etsy Models aka SUCKERS!!!!

"This guy's thinking about Xbox."

"I guess when your hair is that colorful, you need to tone it down with grays and a sad face."

"Seething rage behind those eyes."

When Becca sent these over, I spewed green tea all over my monitor!

Urlesque has posted a WHOLE list of Girls that run shops on Etsy... who torture their boyfriends by making them models. Oh gawd it's so true! I can see the conversation now...

Girl: "Sweetie, I need a model for my stuff. Can you do it please? And act like you like it?"
Boy: (I better be getting laid for this)

Andy should thank his lucky stars my Etsy stuff doesn't need a model...

..P.S. Captions from Urlesque - it's like they were reading my mind!

Expedition to the New Chicago Tundra

After the great Chicago Blizzard of 2011, thousands of pounds of snow were removed from city's downtown streets. Loaded by bulldozers and heavy trucks, much of the snow was piled in the empty lot between our studio and the railroad tracks.

An expedition was immediately formed.
The goal; a bold assault aiming to place the very first men upon the summit of this peak. Known for their dexterity and grit, Dawson and Matt were selected for the dangerous undertaking.

This is their story.

I have been inspired to attempt to recreate another amazing journey - filming my heroic effort to reclaim our trash can from the alley. Few have known to survive.

link / via

"Back to the Future" Photoseries...It's not what you think!

No Deloreans here.... just some old photos, retaken EXACTLY the same, years later!

From Irina Werning's Website:

I love old photos. I admit being a nosey photographer. As soon as I step into someone else’s house, I start sniffing for them. Most of us are fascinated by their retro look but to me, it’s imagining how people would feel and look like if they were to reenact them today... A few months ago, I decided to actually do this. So, with my camera, I started inviting people to go back to their future.

GENIUS!
DiG and I have decided to relive our past and recreate some of our old photos too! We'll let you know how it goes... there's some great pretty princess pumpkin patch galavanting we could recreate... via DiG!

Update: Very Demotivational beat us too it...

When Parents Text: The Hilarity Ensues

It's as if S*** my Dad Says and Text From Last Night made teenie internet babies!

"When Parents Text"... Thanks for the good look Lrn!

Museum of Unnatural History's Unnatural Packaging!

You've probably seen these around the interwebs already (considering I'm so LAZY), but I thought Loopy Rocket needed to de-LowBrow ourselves for awhile. Hence the posting of packaging awesome-ness from the Museum of Unnatural History in DC (a 826 Chapter Gift Shop)!

It's all in effort to bring attention (and funding) to the 826 Writing Chapters! Seems each Chapter has it's own themed Gift Shop. (For years I've been meaning to see the Pirate Gift Shop of Valencia). But I may just have to make a special trip to check out all this fancy packaging design by Oliver Munday!

826 DC Chapter link / Gift Shop link / via 

Fashion Show

What a cute idea!!!
Although, I'd rather see an overlayed Godzilla re-enactment...

Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

via

Paint-By-Number: Instant Artwork! (not for kiddies).

  

Most excellent. 

Forget all the landscapes and flowers...these Paint-By-Numbers by Brandon Bird separate the Men from the Monkeys!

Now in the flavors of Brave Cone Dog, Uncanny Valley (feat Nic Cage), and Bad Day on the High Sea. 

via / link to buy

Freeze Yourself in Carbonite!

Hmm... so continuing on our theme of Star Wars....
For $50 (+ s/h) you can get yourself or your favorite Nerf-Herder, sculpted in Carbonite!

Personally, I'd like to see Hello Kitty in Carbonite:

But that's just me.

Via Superpunch (where all good things come from. And here he is in Carbonite) / link