Meme Huffer

"Help me, Obama, you're my only hope"

 

From Ironic Sans

Meme Huffer's tip for the recession

 

(yes, I am spending too much time on ffffound today)

But where's the Biden-Palin ticket?

found at ffffound

Client knows best

We've all been here:

via Today's Big Thing

Honest Design

I was just having my regular Friday flick thru ffffound when I came across this t-shirt:

But what really made the image-trawl worthwhile was when I found this (The Dieline blog via ffffound) a few pages later:

Nice.

Friday ffffound

Thought we'd launch a new weekly post -my ffffound.com image of the week. No reasons, no contexts, just something interesting for your Friday...

Design inspiration

Big ups to Jae for cluing me in to ffffound.com, a veritable cornucopia of graphic design, photos and various cool stuff, pulled together for all over the interweb. Hugely browsable. Enjoy.

And no rapping along, either.

This morning's Guardian pointed us to this gem of an idea for redesigning the London tube ticket, courtesy of The Serif:

The Nu-Rave Olympics

                              

Oh. Jesus. The Horror.

It seems that for their £400,000 fee (!) branding consultacy Wolff Olins went and hired some twat from Horeditch who otherwise scrapes together a living designing self-consciously retro flyers for Klaxons gigs.

I guess its supposed to be fresh and dynamic and "down with the kids"... but it's just plain stoopid, a horrible trendoid schtick that already reeks of early 2007.

And if you think it is cringeworthy now, just wait till 2012 when it will look like a sad relic of a quickly-forgotten retro-circa-1988-flavoured youth revival.

Still, it does go very nicely with the new British Olympic team uniforms:

*UPDATE*

some clever clogs has whipped this up (probably in much the same amount of time as Wolff Olins spent on the original):

First it was fake Louis Vuitton handbags...

Property developers in China are creating themed housing developments that mimic European cities such as Venice, Zurich and Ye Olde London Towne. [link]

One happy po-mo home-owner had this to say about her new hood in 'Venice Aquatic City': "It's just like being abroad, like living in Venice. I haven't been to Venice. I really want to go. I have seen it on TV."

And if that wasn't enough to have Baudrillard laughing from the grave, it turns out that the builders have done such a good job on the fakes that they've been asked to work on a new development... in England.

via Boing Boing