Pretty typeface animated!! Wouldn’t it be awesome if typefoundries started to release animated typefaces??

Scott Belsky offers some advice on how to bring great ideas to life in this article from GOOD. In the article he mentions something really interesting, “Idea-to-idea syndrome is the tendency to launch new ideas while still executing other ideas. As soon as an idea becomes an active project, we become burdened by the minutia of execution. Long days and late nights cause us to get lost in what I have come to call the “project plateau”—the part of a project when excitement and energy run low and the end is still out of sight. The quickest escape from the project plateau is simple. Conceive a new idea. Immediately, when you get excited about something new and shiny, your hopes lift as your creative juices kick in. But, as a result, your previous idea is left stranded in the project plateau amidst other carcasses of abandoned ideas.” Do you guys feel like this happens to you more often than not? Read more here on how to make good ideas a reality.

Many times I’ll pick a new restaurant to try out not because I hear the food is wonderful but because the restaurant is beautifully designed. Above are images from the book, Gusto: A Journey Through Restaurant Design. It’s a great collection of restaurants from all around the world.

Above are images from the book Eat Out! published by Gestalten. I’m going to use these books as travel guides when I head out one day on my foodie world tour.

Asylum is a Singapore based design firm that has a portfolio filled with amazing environmental designs. Also, if time permits, check out the Restaurant and Bar Design Awards.

Check out Latvia’s branding for their pavillion at the Shanghai World Expo.

Came across this print piece and thought the quote brings up an interesting comment. Since I’m a designer fresh out of school, I’ve been wondering about this. Should I do work for free to get exposure/experience? Similarly, there’s an interview in the current issue of PRINT with Joe Duffy that talks about how designers must find a balance between business and art.

He mentions, “When we’re young, we say, I love what I do so much I’d do it for free, and that’s where the trouble starts. It’s one thing to trek off to a garret somewhere and become a starving artst for the sake of artistic freedom, yet it’s quite another to open a business and create design for peanuts. It not only hurts you as a business person, it also has a negative effect on the overall business of graphic design, and that’s why we practice our trade in a cottage industry-the definition of which is a business that can be run from someone’s home, usually a craft. It’s essential that designers strike the balance between craft and business principles that earns them the respect commensurate with the contribution they make to the success of their client’s business.”