|falling for skyfall|

An awesome film calls for an awesome movie poster. (photo)

I saw Skyfall, the new James Bond film, on opening weekend—a very rare occurrence for me—with my dad and friend and completely loved it. But besides the movie, I also really dig this particular poster.  Always drawn to minimalistic design, I love how this one kind of bucks tradition by drawing your eye to the bottom and then up. The classy folks behind 007 succeed yet again at leaving my designer's eye stirred, not shaken.

|10,000|

...to thank you. (photo)

10,000+ views! Thank you all for reading and making this milestone possible.

|bottled up|

It's hip to be square. (photo)

When someone is asked about design, I bet their mind jumps to print or web, or maybe even fashion design. But we are also surrounded by product design. I enjoyed reading about this water bottle design and some of the thought processes behind it. And I'd love to try one out considering how difficult it is to wash my current one...

|skinny fit|

I guess he won't be throwing many huge dinner parties. (photo)

I just stumbled upon this article about a different kind of design: architecture. Construction has begun on the world's skinniest house, a home in Poland only 47 inches wide! I can't even imagine designing a house, much less one this compact considering mistakes couldn't be quickly fixed by pressing Command-Z!

|the nightmare before pokémon|

Besides the rad illustrations, I dig the lettering too. (photo)

Most people either love or hate Tim Burton movies. I'm part of the former camp, my favorite of his films likely being Big Fish. And I actually still haven't seen The Nightmare Before Christmas (I know, a pox upon me). While I'm not a huge Pokemon fan, I do enjoy studying the vast array of creatures, and these Burton-esque illustrations by artist Vaughn Pinpin are ridiculously spot-on stylistically. I hope there are more to come!