Things We Like: Cartype
Cartype, the online archive devoted to everything car-related, has posted an impressive selection of decals from remote-control cars of the 1980s.
Things We Like: Hair Posters
For some of us, the best part of getting a haircut is checking out the salon’s posters of people with conspicuous hair. Designed for a hugely broad clientele, hair posters run the gamut from the informational to the inspirational. Depending on where you go for your coiffure, you might get plain, documentary-style snapshots that present haircuts like items on a Chinese-food picture-menu. Or you might find slick, composed shots flaunting poetic hair-structures that inspire patrons to make rash and probably regrettable decisions.
Some of these hairstyles resemble the plumage of exotic birds. Others, their nests. Some haircuts look like topiary or tortured lab animals, some like wedding cakes or charred sand castles. Others still look simply like it’s school picture day in an off-vintage.
We’ve cruised the interhairnet to bring you a deep gallery of the finest in hair posters. In doing so, we’ve noticed that most hair models seem unhappy or angry, quite possibly about the haircuts that have been inflicted upon them. In conducting our research we’ve also been reassured that what we consider our own bad hair days might not actually be so bad after all.
Without further ado, we present you further hairdos…
Things We Like: Hand Lettering Still Alive In Barcelona!
One of the wonderful things about having a cell phone with an integrated camera is that you can shoot a picture anytime you see something worth photographing. (Well, as long as you haven’t forgotten your phone.) At any rate, we saw these restaurant signs close to home, in Barcelona, and wanted to share them with you. Because food will always better if there’s a beautiful … more
11 Contemporary Artists To Watch
Base partner Dimitri Jeurissen is an avid art collector. We asked him to cite ten contemporary artists he is watching right now. Like all creative types, he came back with eleven. … more
Things We Like: The Power of a Custom Typeface
It’s offensive when someone says, “Fuck You.” But when sweetly written in a cursive, happy font, it can make you smile instead.
Things We Like: Free Art Fest in São Paolo
The Mônica Filgueiras art gallery in São Paolo last week hosted Free Art Fest, a two-day exhibition and event featuring street artists from around the world. True to the show’s name, all of the artwork included was given away. How it worked: The first 200 visitors were issued a number according to the order in which they arrived. Everyone was then given a preview period in the gallery, then visitors were called in numerical order to select a piece to take as their own. … more
Adam Kalkin vs. His Mother
A small part of the Adam Kalkin MOMA exhibit. Fall 08.
A very low budget TV ad, we kind of like…
Agency: Wieden+Kennedy