It's like Wikipedia for Type

I stumbled upon this new finding from Firebelly Design's blog about an hour ago.
It's a great resource that places typefaces into different classifications like blackletter, script, sans serif, ornamental... etc.

Love the concept! Anyone can join and add or edit typefaces on this site.

Check it out at Typedia.com

Inspiration from Dental Mannequins.

I had no idea that these existed.
I love the concept of just the mouth, metal for a skull, and pole for a neck.
They have a very industrial feeling to them.
Dentists in training won't have a problem with shattering mannequin heads with these!

Source: Blog.Makezine.com

i went to the SOFA event at navy pier. i found this chair pretty cool.

Featured on National Equality March

Mint Male Magazine was just featured on the National Equality March page on Facebook and Joey, the founder of Mint Male, was just emailing back and forth with Robin McGehee an hour ago and she loves the magazine and the 50 page spread on the march. I am so happy. Just thought I would share.



T-Rex

Fresh off the Presses

These past couple of days have been spent on my computer wrapping things up to have the November issue of Mint Male Magazine done yesterday before 9pm (deadline). It was an awesome month. We all went to Washington DC to cover the National Equality March in early October. We received press passes, photographed the event, and met a lot of great people. The march was so full of energy and I tried to capture that visually so that you could also experience it and see how many people were really there (around 250,000). It was such an amazing experience minus the 26 hour car ride driving to DC and back. The premiere of our first issue was a success and things are only getting better. A lot of time, sweat, and hours were put into the 132 page magazine that was launched late last night and I would love for all of you to check it out and give me your full critique on my work. Also, if you have any ideas, suggestions, or pieces we could add to future issues I would love to hear them.

Here are a couple of tear sheets from this issue:

November Cover- Lady Gaga at NEM

Political Fashion Spread- I played off of the reflection of objects each

model was wearing.

National Equality March spread

Thanksgiving spread

The rest of the magazine can be viewed on Issuu.com

www.issuu.com/mintmale/docs/november09

I hope everyone is having a great week! 

Oh and never decide to cook a pizza at 2am while extremely tired... I woke up at 3:30am to smoke and had to air out my kitchen all night. So happy the smoke alarm didn't wake up my entire building. 

T-Rex

Inspiration Here. Check it out.

Wow. That's about all that came out mouth when i viewed Printmag.com and Gregoire Alexandre's photography was on their inspiration page. I actually caught myself with my mouth open staring at the computer screen.

His photography, design, and placement of the props really makes him stand out from the rest. Who else would think to incorporate a small origami unicorn (the size of a horse) with a model?

So unique.

Here are some of my favs (you can view the rest of his portfolio on GregoireAlexandre.com):









I now need to purchase a large white and gray backdrop so that I can try out new concepts.

-TRex

3 Materials + 6 Hours + 1 Vision

Here are some photos from our design challenge where we had to design an outfit made from paper, tape, and honeycomb cardboard.

Jody and Ilana start sketching ideas for our design.

The design is to reflect our design philosophy:

Design is a visual expression of modern society, bringing 

your vision to a reality. Creating an innovative, inspirational,

edgy look on mainstream design.

This black capelet was a piece of inspiration that

we found in Surface Magazine. 

Also from Surface Magazine, we were inspired by 

these heels and how we could design and create them.

Our studio decided to create an outfit that was

unique, driven by lines and angles, and cohesive

in many ways. These were our sketches for 

our design.

This is the beginning idea of how we wanted 

the heels to look.

Then we found these awesome egg carton-like

pieces to complete the heel. 

Above is the sketch of the heels.

This is a picture of Jody in front of the massive 

amount of paper that we had to use in order to 

create the skirt.

Here is a picture of Ilana holding the heel

before she became Lady GaGa's clone.

Above is Jody playing dress-up with the 

huge shoulder pads.

Viola! The beginnings of the skirt!

This was quite a long process of making sure

that the skirt covered Ilana as well as not

making it overly creased. 

Ilana modeling the first incision (diagonal cut)

into our the skirt. 

Cutting the back of the skirt so that

it matches the angle of the front.

This was hard to do since we couldn't 

take the skirt off of Ilana.

The skirt and capelet are completed (roughly).

Ilana is uncomfortable... you can tell by her big

smiles! =]

This is the process of placing masking 

tape on the cut out of the large collar.

We were super excited that the collar

turned out so well.

Above is a sideview of the completed 

piece.

The collar and strong angles turned

out great. She looked killer on the 

runway.

Haha! The left shoe took a dive and fell 

apart post-runway. It just kind of collapsed.

This experience was a lot of fun. We created a 3 piece outfit from scratch, laughed at a lot of different ways certain pieces had turned out, and learned a lot about how people on Project Runway feel with the time counting down to the last second. 

More to come! Stay tuned... Same Bat Time, Same Bat Channel!