Guinness QR Cup - The Dieline - The #1 Package Design Website
thedieline.com

We’ve seen our fair share of QR codes in every pos­si­ble con­fig­u­ra­tion, but this has got to be the coolest I’ve seen in a while.

The Guin­ness QR Cup reveals itself only when the dark beer is poured into it. Once there, the entire cup becom…

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Michael Zhang, petapixel.com

If you like PES’ stop-motion videos in which ran­dom objects are pre­pared as food, you’ll love this cre­ative music video for the song “Get By” by Delta Heavy. It’s mind-boggling to think about how much time and ener­gy was required to pre­pare a…

Artist Creates Typography Piece Out Of Pins and String
designtaxi.com

Using Illus­tra­tor, thou­sands of pins and hun­dreds of meters of string, Australia-based tac­tile typog­ra­ph­er Dominique Falla has cre­at­ed a large-scale typo­graph­ic piece.

Titled ‘Relax and Unwind’, Falla first drew the…

For Typography Fans, An Animation Treat From A to Z
designtaxi.com

Alpha­bet­ic is a beau­ti­ful romance between type and ani­ma­tion cre­at­ed by Brazil­ian direc­tor and ani­ma­tor Ariel Costa of Stu­dio Nitro, with sound by Marce­lo Baldin.

For this exper­i­ment, Costa used a free and cool…

johnmartz, drawn.ca

Les cartons de Mr. Carton // Gadin alpin (by Michael Bolufer)

Michael promises to make over 12 episodes of Mr. Carton, which I certainly approve of.

Redesigning With Personality
Aarron Walter, smashingmagazine.com

We are very happy to present a sam­ple chap­ter from the upcom­ing print­ed Smash­ing Book #3, writ­ten by Aar­ron Wal­ter. In this chap­ter, Aar­ron explains how shar­ing our per­son­al­i­ties can help us cre­ate last­ing rela­tion­ships with…

How Channel 4’s online team works
Gavin Lucas, creativereview.co.uk

Illus­tra­tor Jack Hud­son has just com­plet­ed two A0 poster com­mis­sions from Chan­nel 4, each designed to show how a par­tic­u­lar depart­ment func­tions and which are to be dis­played inter­nal­ly in its Chan­nel 4’s Lon­don HQ…

“This piece…

Sideshow Sign Co.
uncrate.com

No mat­ter what kind of look you’re going for in your home or office, you should be able to find some suit­able wall cov­er­ings at Sideshow Sign Co. ($65-$475). Each piece — rang­ing from a sim­ple sign to light­ed mar­quis let­ters — is made by…

Etsy Finds: Monkey-Rope Press
Courtney, designworklife.com

Monkey-Rope Press is a Chicago-based let­ter­press shop that spe­cial­izes in prints fea­tur­ing hand-set antique wood type and hand-carved linocut illus­tra­tions. Check out their shop for a more com­plete selec­tion of prints and mini comics.

Love these type based artworks.

A Brain-Breaking Typeface Where Every Letter Is An Optical Illusion
By Belinda Lanks, fastcodesign.com

M.C. Escher, eat your heart out.

If you like typog­ra­phy and appre­ci­ate the mind-bending genius of M.C. Esch­er, this type­face has no equal: An alpha­bet made entire­ly of “unde­cid­able” fig­ures, two-dimensional objects that look like 3-D…