UrbanSilo

Urban Silo

Communication Arts Interactive 13

This site has improved a lot since I first came accross it during the summer. The download time is still somewhat long, but I love the bright colors and innovative navigation system. Great flash portfolio site. Bonus: it begins with a rooster sound.

McDonald's Billboard

Luerzer's Archive, Communication Arts Interactive 13

I found this McDonald's billboard while researching Leo Burnett's ad agency (their site won a Comm Arts Interactive Award). Greenwashing? Yes. Awesome? Absolutely. They made real lettuce grow on a billboard! These are amazing times we live in.

AIGA, Washington DC
Design Army

These promotional materials for the DC regional chapter of the AIGA are playful, fresh, and contemporary. The first a website (It's so rare to see good typography on the internet that I had to include it) and the second is a poster.

AICGS

Art Director's Annual 87th Design Awards

More from Design Army. Who could possibly find fault with large, cropped letters and crisp blocks of color? Certainly not I!

Wax Partnership

Wax partnership
Coupe 017, The 2007 Coupe International Design and Image Awards Annual

This site has a fun, sketchy environment. I like the interface, its ease of use, and my son really loved the panda xeroxing his bum (go to see what we're doing). Tip: the video takes a little while to load. Warning: features people in underwear.

Wildcard Inc.

Wildcard Inc.

Communicaiton Arts Webpick

I don't really know what this website is about because it's in Japanese. I was checking out one of Comm Arts webpicks of the day and got mysteriously rerouted to this other site, which features 4 interfaces in which the viewer's mouse creates the a tral and illustrates the site. Very cool. Enjoy!

Design Army

Communication Arts Annual 2007, Coupe International Awards 2007
Design Army

I just killed an hour browsing through this firm's site and I'm in love! More entries will definitely ensue. I guess, though type-based, this identity package isn't a great typography find. But I like it so much i thought I'd post it anyways. I guess the font is Helvetica?

HOAX REVEALED!

Thanks to Miriam's forensic typography I don't need to do a big reveal this week. The Economist cover I posted last week was, obviously, a hoax. The real cover is posted above. Last week's version has been floating around the blogosphere for a while, so I no longer remember where I originally saw it.

The Economist has a long history of typographic ads and covers, though. For decades they had humorous quotes in a white serif Bodoni or Bodini-like font. Here are a couple examples:


Their most recent ads build on this tradition and incorporate illustration elements. Here's an example:

Economist Cover

This was the the cover for the economist a week or two ago. Nothing says it like Helvetica.