http://laander.com The online profile of Lasse Boisen Andersen Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:05:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://laander.com/2008/12/08/latitude/ The guys over at Blog Action Day really deserves an applause. By now, over 12,000 blogs have participated in the event and that's over 12 million readers in estimated audience! In summary, Blog Action Day is about generating awareness on a particular subject though mass participation - this year poverty. The idea: awareness ... http://laander.com/2008/10/16/focus-on-poverty-blog-action-day/ Real cool post on Abduzeedo on typography flavoured with ornaments and fleurons - or "frilly bits" as it has come to be called. Check out a few previews below: [gallery] Full post Tutorial on how the Abduzeedo wallpaper was done Nice post with resources for brushes and vectors http://laander.com/2008/10/13/typography-frilly-bits-style/ I've recently began reading "Choke", a novel by the guy behind Fight Club; Chuck Palahniuk. As with Fight Club, I'm completely enthralled by the straightforward provocative story line and edgy mentality towards life and how to live it. Some things are just totally absurd while others make so much sense ... http://laander.com/2008/10/07/choking-on-employee-emergency-codes/ Now, this is cool! Ad for a new Nintendo Wii game featured on YouTube - check it out: http://www.youtube.com/experiencewii I encourage you to see it twice to get all the details :-) http://laander.com/2008/10/01/awesome-wario-land-ad/ With visual perfection, the japanese design agency WoW has made an animated short film called "WOW" - an artistic depiction of typo design. I like it a lot, subtle and stylish. Beautiful! Permanent link here. http://laander.com/2008/09/30/wow-a-typographic-short-film/ Colors can be very intruiging and attractive. If used in the extreme, contrastive colors create a very strong, visual look with alot of energy embedded. Combining a multi-colored palette with a dark black base can turn out really exciting - judge for yourself:           Focus on the above is on the ... http://laander.com/2008/09/23/10-dark-color-intense-designs/ I've had a few "moments" earlier in my life, where I seriously considered buying a Polaroid camera. Now, I'm having one of those again. I totally love everything about Polaroids: the vintage colors, the overexposed ligthing, the neat on-the-fly film print and the camera itself. Man, the more I write and speak about, ... http://laander.com/2008/09/18/polaroid-love/ I really like dark, earth-like colors as found on brown paper and cardboard. I also like stencils and monochromatic cut-outs. And, I also like Charlize Theron. Combined, it resulted in this: It should be seen full-size to really reveal the details in the work. Flickr doesn't like very large images, so you ... http://laander.com/2008/09/15/stenciled-artwork-lize/ For the last few days, I haven't had much spare time (if any) behind a computer. Therefore I failed to meet the "one post a day" goal. Well, I figured that as long as I've posted one post a day in average throughout the week, it's OK :-) So here's the next ... http://laander.com/2008/09/14/3-twisted-comic-strips/