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Great signage in Tokyo. Notable for the happy-but-creepy effect, neologisms, and invocation of public shame/guilt as a motivator for good behavior.  Also, I’d like to learn more about “the Japanese people’s characteristic love of miniature objects.” Anyone?
Great signage in Tokyo. Notable for the happy-but-creepy effect, neologisms, and invocation of public shame/guilt as a motivator for good behavior.  Also, I’d like to learn more about “the Japanese people’s characteristic love of miniature objects.” Anyone?
Great signage in Tokyo. Notable for the happy-but-creepy effect, neologisms, and invocation of public shame/guilt as a motivator for good behavior.  Also, I’d like to learn more about “the Japanese people’s characteristic love of miniature objects.” Anyone?
Great signage in Tokyo. Notable for the happy-but-creepy effect, neologisms, and invocation of public shame/guilt as a motivator for good behavior.  Also, I’d like to learn more about “the Japanese people’s characteristic love of miniature objects.” Anyone?
Great signage in Tokyo. Notable for the happy-but-creepy effect, neologisms, and invocation of public shame/guilt as a motivator for good behavior.  Also, I’d like to learn more about “the Japanese people’s characteristic love of miniature objects.” Anyone?
Great signage in Tokyo. Notable for the happy-but-creepy effect, neologisms, and invocation of public shame/guilt as a motivator for good behavior.  Also, I’d like to learn more about “the Japanese people’s characteristic love of miniature objects.” Anyone?

Great signage in Tokyo. Notable for the happy-but-creepy effect, neologisms, and invocation of public shame/guilt as a motivator for good behavior. 

Also, I’d like to learn more about “the Japanese people’s characteristic love of miniature objects.” Anyone?

weltenbuerger: LEFT> the original brooklyn made Rope basket from DOUG JOHNSTON in our store in Los Feliz… RIGHT> the Target cheap 6.99, god knows how manufactured knock off !!!!!! … It came to our attention that Target knocked off our Designer Doug Johnstons iconic rope baskets … Knowing how hard it is to offer well made pieces and make a living … We would like to support the designer and therefor the basket shown in the picture 100% of the sale price will go to Doug Johnston … Give it a new home and support the Originators !!! @hawktrainer #real #fake #dougjohnston #weltenbuerger #1764nvermont (at 1764 N Vermont Ave // Weltenbuerger Store LA) Friends: support Doug Johnston in holding Target accountable for replicating his designs without his permission by buying his gorgeous rope baskets. (Angelenos: if you buy them at Weltenbuerger on Vermont, 100% will go directly to the artist for this purpose.)

weltenbuerger:

LEFT> the original brooklyn made Rope basket from DOUG JOHNSTON in our store in Los Feliz… RIGHT> the Target cheap 6.99, god knows how manufactured knock off !!!!!! … It came to our attention that Target knocked off our Designer Doug Johnstons iconic rope baskets … Knowing how hard it is to offer well made pieces and make a living … We would like to support the designer and therefor the basket shown in the picture 100% of the sale price will go to Doug Johnston … Give it a new home and support the Originators !!! @hawktrainer #real #fake #dougjohnston #weltenbuerger #1764nvermont
(at 1764 N Vermont Ave // Weltenbuerger Store LA)

Friends: support Doug Johnston in holding Target accountable for replicating his designs without his permission by buying his gorgeous rope baskets. (Angelenos: if you buy them at Weltenbuerger on Vermont, 100% will go directly to the artist for this purpose.)

This Can’t Actually Be the Official Logo, Right?! A Designer’s Guide to Political Convention Design.

election:

Hey! Tag Savage here, Tumblr election correspondent and graphic designer by trade. I spent the last two weeks researching the visual and logistic aspects of the conventions, interviewing design consultants, chatting with locals, taking it all in. Here now: a guide to the logos, scenes, and set designs of both the DNC and RNC — and my grades for how the respective parties stack up. 

Logos:

Democrats

The logo for the Democratic National Convention is flawed in frank and obvious ways. At even a small distance its figures blur into a jammy smudge.

These figures, these silhouettes, why are they so precisely drawn? You can make out the thick-rimmed glasses on figure number two, you can see the flyaway hairs on number five. Number one looks to be Bill Nye, whose appearance here lends scientific credibility to the Obama campaign.

I suppose the idea is that the Democratic coalition is a diverse one, and this loopy level of detail makes that diversity fairly apparent without having to actually spell it out, or to reduce it to potentially offensive stereotypes. So, on a certain strategic level, it “works.” Also, the circle is kinda pretty.

But still: there’s no getting around the smudge. Nor the Pepsi-ness. Walking around the arena halls one couldn’t help but suspect that Pepsi sponsored this whole affair. Pepsi did not.

Logo Grade: B–

Read More

Tag’s feature was worth the wait! Read on to find out how a designer and political outsider grades the US political parties up on logo design, set design, and host cities at their Conventions.

Congrats to this year’s Personal Democracy Forum Tumblr Fellows

At this year’s PDF, Tumblr is providing conference scholarships to ten innovators at the intersection of tech and politics:

Faye Anderson, Cost of Freedom Project (follow Anderson@Large on Tumblr!)

Lou Aronson, Votifi (follow Votifi on Tumblr!)

Alex Budak, Start Some Good (follow StartSomeGood on Tumblr!)

Petra Farinha, Purpose (follow prntscreen on Tumblr!)

Nick Gaines, GovHub

Amisha Ghadiali, Think. Act. Vote.

Eyal Halamish, OurSay (follow OurSay on Tumblr!)

Marly Pierre-Louis, Brooklyn Movement Center

Jed Sundwall, Measured Voice (follow Jed on Tumblr!)

Paul Ten Haken, Click Rain Elect

You all inspire us, and we can’t wait to met you on Monday!