|happy holidays|

Happy New Year's Day, everyone!

|poster post|

How does this poster rank on the EW list? (photo)

Hot on the heels of the latest James Bond poster, I happened upon this Entertainment Weekly article counting down the top 25 movie posters of the year. My favorites from their list include those for The Bourne Legacy, Django Unchained, The Paperboy, and Wreck-It Ralph.

|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...