Persons attempting to find a "text" in this [story] will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a "subtext" in it will be banished; persons attempting to explain, interpret, explicate, analyze, deconstruct, or otherwise "understand" it will be exiled to a desert island in the company only of other explainers.
BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR - Wendell Berry's introduction to Jayber Crow.
Dennis Benson, Piano Service, Web Design, and Photography Services. Dad just finished a fancy new website design. Nice!
Brand Name Pencils — an introduction to the broad and diverse world of pencils produced in the US and abroad. BNP has been featured in Coudal’s Museum of Online Museums (MoOM). I love the Lovely 447’s from Empire Pencil Co. What a gold mine.
Design Observer on the dry wit and extensive use of double entendre in the port-a-potty branding biz. Examples: Drop Zone, LepreCAN, Loader-Up, Royal Throne, Tee Pee, Oui Oui Enterprises, Doodie Calls, and Yesterday’s Meals-on-Wheels.
I was going through some old jayber.org designs of mine, came across a few that caught my eye, and realized that they all have a common theme in that they are: (1) urban, and (2) green. Here are some samples:
Hong Kong Handshake. White & Gold foil stamping on White Shiro 80, 1400gsm.
Oliver Munday business card and resume, printed on quarter roll paper. Very nice.
From BibliOdyssey, here are some Dutch advertising graphics from the 150 years of advertising in the Netherlands collection at the ReclameArsenaal foundation in Amsterdam.
Using passive amplification alone, designer Tristan Zimmermann came up with the Phonofone II, which transforms a personal music player into a sort of mini victrola.
From Science & Sons:
[…] Without the use of external power or batteries, the Phonofone […] exploits the virtues of horn acoustics to boost the audio output of standard earphones to up to 55 decibels* (or roughly the maximum volume of laptop speakers)
This would fit nicely on top of my full-size victrola at home. (Via Veer.)
Thanks to EA, Jayber is being hosted on a new server, and I’m exploiting the opportunity to realign the design. Things are a bit broken at the moment, but if you have any input, let me know.