Thanks.

Picto-mail. Tip of the hat toward Paris.

Turner & the Masters of the Universe

That's All Folks.

The Greatest (Sporting Photo Ever?)

Matisse - L'Escargot, 1953.

"I have attained a form filtered to it's essentials".

Red & White.

I like looking at tall things on Google maps.
This is Tokyo Tower — Click to go large.

Proud Creative - Long Lunch Posters.

Still Not Out of My System.

Hiroshima, Wim Crouwel.

Japanese Typographic Town Logos.

Kanoya, Kagoshima: The blue shape represents the Osumi peninsula,
and the red circle with the gold katakana カノヤ (Kanoya) represents the city.


Minato, Tokyo: The design for Tokyo’s Minato ward features a stylized
version of the hiragana み (mi).

Full set

Japan

Sticker-Friendly Flag.

Notebook: bought and prepared for Japan.

Something I Regularly Come Back To.

Paul Rand.

Journey to the Far Side of the Sun.

Boldly Going.

He's Back.

Man On Wire

Philippe Petit.

Chermayeff

It's Been Too Long I Know - Knock Yourself Out

Supercake-it

Cheers Lucy. Good use of Smarties.

The Modern Flower Co

Fair play Multistorey, that's pretty good.

Finnish Film Festival Poster (idea)

©Jon Rowlandson (just in case)

Aero.

http://cdn-www.airliners.net

The Value of Classic

Even though I've drastically cut down on drinking fizzy drinks (for dental reasons) in the past year, my first choice of cola has always been Pepsi. I've bored many people in recent years about my wish to see them revert to their 80's/early 90's branding on their cans (pictured above) and then I read this crap. The one good, strong and instantly recognisable bit of their brand and they get rid of it (or rather bastardize it).

For years Pepsi have tried to disassociate themselves from Coca-Cola; making themselves blue, big-money celebrity endorsements and the like, when all along all they had to do was realise that they had something valuable in the look of their old cans. On a separate note, they really should also sell it in glass bottles (call me fickle but even though I much prefer the taste of Pepsi - I will go for a glass bottle of Coca-Cola over a can of Pepsi any day. Drinks are much more refreshing and seem to stay cooler in glass than aluminium).

So, taking this on board and compromising on colour (I prefer the original red, but can understand why Pepsi would want to be blue), why couldn't they embrace their original style? (see below).

There's money in classic and more often than not, it never goes out of fashion.

Screenprints for Sale

Mika Nash

Scans

http://bibigreycat.blogspot.com/

Einspuren – Spur Halten

Meet Me At The Horse Shoe Bar & Grill

Club Peachtree Dine & Dance

1972 Munich Olympics system - Otl Aicher.
Ticket, luggage tags, medal.

Mika Nash

mikanash.co.uk

Lady Peugeot; are you trying to seduce me?

I bought a bike. Now I cycle to work. It's mega.
Peugeot PY 10/P. circa 1988.

V&A Friday Late: Blood on Paper

Read it. Thought it was good. Wanted to pass it on.
(Correct postage as well)

Serif Gothic

Cheery drawing

Rolling Bridge

I completely forgot about this bridge by Heatherwick studio that curls
up when a boat needs to pass. It's ridiculously brilliant.

New Proud website

Proud Creative

Paul-Rand.com

I've been looking for a concise collection of Rand's work online for some time now and, surprisingly, one never existed. Until now. Paul-rand.com (which to the best of my knowledge is a new site) does exactly that. And it's brilliant.

Furniture & Colour

Denver

I love this shit.

Pick a colour, any colour

New Proud stationery which use coloured stickers to personalise them.

Visions of the future.

The Atomium. Beautiful building I recently visited in Brussels.
What makes it more incredible for me is that it was built in 1958
(for a World Expo.). André Waterkeyn

There was also some really really gorgeous furniture displayed
inside by Willy van der Meeren.

Supergraphic

From ISO50

Thought for the day.

Graphic design is not art.

Promax 07/Beyond

(I probably looked a bit of an idiot taking this photo, but it sure did turn out nice
- even though half of it doesn't actually exist...)

Que?

I think this is one of my all-time favourite identities - it's certainly 'up there' anyway.
Browns.

Josef Müller-Brockmann

Jon Rowlandson

A type experiment with my name.

Kobler, Pelikan, Pirelli

Alki1 from flickr

Bent Ply

From FFFound

Herb Lubalin (again, again)

From FFFound

Nice.

Emmi

Abram Games

Why I've not posted this sooner I'll never know

Clock in, clock out, numbers by 12

Kodak Instamatic sad pictures
Link – To be honest I don't really know what this site is.

Paper Model Directory

Here.

Herb Lubalin (again)

The Reason I Will Buy The DVD.

Catch Me If You Can

Eames mash-up.

Russian train car designed by Art. Lebedev Studio

Art. Lebedev Studio

Cool TV we have in the studio.

Google Analytics

After seeing it on other sites, I decided to set up Google Analytics on Supergraphic the other day, just out of interest really, to see how many people were visiting. My favourite bit has got to be the map overlay though, which tracks the places that people are logging on from.

So, in no particular order: Hello Sunnyvale, hello Beaverton, hello Seattle (always wanted to go there), hello Vancouver, hello Atlanta, hello Rocky Mount, hello Herndon, hello New York, hello Boston, hello Toronto, hello Belo Horizonte, hello Buenos Aires, hello Madrid, hello Marseille, hello St Helier, hello Malakoff, hello Stevenage, hello Poplar, hello Croydon, hello London, hello Birmingham, hello Manchester, hello Bradford, hello Edinburgh, hello Neuchatel, hello Zurich, hello Mannheim, hello Bielefeld, hello Bremen, hello Odense, hello Grenaa, hello Zagreb, hello Warsaw, hello Tallinn, hello Melbourne, hello Sydney.

Crazy non?

The Zak Kyes poster I bought yesterday.

Stamps

See them here.

My Haus.

Would you buy one of these if I made more of them??
(these 'prototypes' are blatantly just for me)

Printed very kindly and expertly by Mika Nash.

©Jon Rowlandson 2007.

Blackle search: "save the world"

"If Google swapped their white background for black, it's claimed, 750 mega
watts/hour per year could be saved..."

Completely functional, eco-friendlier alternative.

http://www.blackle.com/

Update: Apparently the energy-saving capabilities of "Blackle" are false,
according to something I read that I can't be arsed linking to.

French Graphic Design

The Story of Graphic Design in France by Michel Wlassikoff.
From Things To Look At.

Not new - but nice nonetheless.

Very true (sometimes)

"Don’t over-think a problem"...

"One time when I was in graduate school, the late, great Steven Izenour said to me, after only a week or so into a ten-week problem, “OK, you solved it. Now draw it up.” Every other critic I ever had always tried to complicate and prolong a problem when, in fact, it had already been solved. Designers are obsessive by nature. This was a revelation. Sometimes you just hit it. The thing is done. Move on."

Michael McDonough

G-Wiz!

I saw about four of these on my way to work today and I can safely say that I would never be caught dead in one of them. Idea = brilliant. Execution = pathetic. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for pushing technology to be environmentally friendly, but when will companies realise that to make people truly "go green", they will have to embrace design and make people really want/lust after these things. Obviously, it has been produced cheaply - but a limited budget can be one of the catalysts for brilliant, groundbreaking design.

This could've quite easily been the new mini - but it isn't - at all.

Update: Actually, by the looks of this video - I would be caught dead in one.

Biggest pixel artwork ever (apparently)

All of it here. (Takes a while to load.)

I made this paper camera today.

My hands are covered in glue.

Sol Lewitt

50s & 60s Eastern European Matchbox Labels

Here. (Shamefully pilfered from The Serif.)

Who's the boss?

Porous Walker

Yury Ostromentsky

Daily Type

Proud Vol. 01

Here.

Eatock olympics reponse.

I don't hate this, in fact I think it's alright. I know it's only a logo and there's no clue to how/if the brand would work, but as a mark (maybe with a change to the type) I like it. And without slurring the official one too much, I think Wolff Olins have forgotten that no matter how well an identity can be applied to various media, it's also our job to make it look nice. Relevant, robust and beautiful. That's what makes our job so hard. Eatock.

Acid Haus.

Yes Studio.

ILVA logo: IKEA-esque? Yes. 80's? Possibly. Do I care? No.

Safety First.

Very nice poster

It's just not dust.

Vinyl Wall Stickers (nice table too)

www.domestic.fr

x-shaped elastic bands

Logical thinking. Buy them here.

Rosemarie fiore

Massive spirographs and long exposure photographs of video games.
Look.

Knockman & friends play music

Take a look at the Knockman family

New webulizer

www.proudcreative.com

Pack of smokes

Old link, but a very good one from Design Boom

Miniatures

I saw this on another design blog - boredom is your fault.
More photos here.

The poster I want. (Experimental Jetset)

Posters (that I will get round to printing)

©Jon Rowlandson 2007.

I heart grids.

Free grid creator - http://www.incompetech.com/graphpaper/

Herb Lubalin - old but not forgotten

Parra - seems like a good guy.

Parra, Dutch illustrator. www.rockwellclothing.com

I went to LA and all I got were these lousy photos

LAX Airport (bird's/plane's eye-view)

Bergen

Chatbot says hello.