Just a Memo

This is cool… not only because it has something to do with Ninjas haha. I think Shawnimals did a good job designing their Ninja Town characters, world, etc. The site is colorful, animated and simple as well.

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Inspired by Robert Indiana’s LOVE sculpture, I originally designed it as donation-fundraiser for the “No On 8″ campaign. Due to its fluid Design meaning and implications, it can be universally used to express your intolerance to any form of “Hate” (H8).

If you are interested in purchasing t-shirts, bags, hats, buttons, etc. with the NOH8 Design, I have set up a storefront with the NOH8 product line over at:

http://is.gd/82oM

Partial proceeds from this product line will be donated towards the campaign against Proposition 8^[1].

In the meantime, spread the word… http://justamemo.com/noh8

1. Here is my stance on Prop 8, and why I’m against it. [↩]

Kapitza, an independent Design company based in East London, recently published their new book entitled, Geometric.

Geometric is a unique pattern resource book featuring an exciting collection of 264 colourful and monochrome pattern illustrations. Get inspired by Kapitza’s pattern art, all created with the 100 Geometric pattern fonts included on the CD for Mac and Windows. Now designing your own patterns is as easy as typing – but with much more exciting results.

336 pages, 264 pattern illustrations
CD incl. 100 pattern fonts (Mac, PC)
ISBN 978-3-87439-767-4

Pretty colorful right? Add those patterns and shapes, and you have a visual feast right in front of you. It is currently selling for only 55-pounds… about $81.55 (at the time of this post). You may grab it by going to their online store here.

Bang Bang T-shirts made this cool video to promote their Ninja T-shirt. Pretty fun and creative. It was just a simple mix of music/sound, some transition effects, and Type.

Here’s the description and/or build-up they used:

Our ninja t-shirt!! The greatest movie parody t-shirt on the internet! You may have seen t-shirts that are based around movies but, as you know, we at Bang Bang T-shirts want to change the world so we are making movies that are based around tee shirts!!! Forget the new Indiana Jones in 2008, this is going to be the one to watch:

The film of 2008!!!!

Shepard Fairey (”Obey Giant“) and the Obama Hope image was featured Wednesday night on CBS News with Katie Couric. Here’s the segment.

Here’s the infamous HOPE image (aka. “Obama is Hope”), along with others that Fairey created before (and after) the historic election day this past Tuesday, November 4, 2008: