heidi montag comes to town

gross.

WTF?!

yes, i can read.

i read in an interview a long time ago that chloé sevigny didn't like her face.

is she an insane person.

look at this beaut!

viaffffound

one of these things does not look like the other.

seriously.

score one for plastic surgery.

before.after

one of my favorite things is product/brand re-design before's and after's. i love seeing how something that has such a presence can get re imagined by someone. that is not my strong suit, creatively, at all. I am sometimes a fan of evolutionary re-design, where something is similar ad is a step away from what it was, but i LOVE revolutionary designs where things are just like crazy different. i would love to know how to take something SO familiar to people but competely re-do it without losing the character and integrity of the product or brand.

my favorite revolutionary re-design of ALL time is the Good Housekeeping seal by my favorite branding/graphic designer Louis Fili.



here are some more of my favorite before and afters from TheDieline.


i think in the 90s, packaging got a little busy.
people wanted to know more about the contents and benefits of their purchases, coupled with mass amounts of competition, leads to TMI. I love how clean things have become, and how the shelves of the supermarkets - AND the supermarkets themselves - are just lookin' so zipped up.

Of course, people will get bored of this "everyone's a graphic designer" stuff - look around - EVERYTHING is getting re-designed. i passed an irish pub with faux capital sans serif fixed width wording on their window. it was kind of a little much. however, i do appreciate the sentiment.

people respond to pretty.

spotted!

in a matter of 30 minutes i saw david schwimmer, sam mendes, and kevin kline.

randooooom.

xoxo, gossip girl