Comments on: We Are The Friction http://www.designsponge.com/2009/08/we-are-the-friction.html Your home for all things Design. Home Tours, DIY Project, City Guides, Shopping Guides, Before & Afters and much more Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:20:13 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Sarah http://www.designsponge.com/2009/08/we-are-the-friction.html/comment-page-1#comment-104672 Sarah Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:32:12 +0000 http://www.designspongeonline.com/?p=31464#comment-104672 I agree that there is some visual similarity with Nicholas Felton's work, I was surprised that it wasn't designed by him! I love that style. No idea if they were influenced by or aware of his work, obviously. I think it's tricky when visual styles or motifs sort of bleed into the visual culture (eg daytum.com, and infographics in general), so it's not really cut and dried as semi-direct inspiration or riffing on a motif, etc. Anyway, I really admire Felton's work, I think he's a brilliant designer. These illustrations look great, too. I agree that there is some visual similarity with Nicholas Felton’s work, I was surprised that it wasn’t designed by him! I love that style. No idea if they were influenced by or aware of his work, obviously. I think it’s tricky when visual styles or motifs sort of bleed into the visual culture (eg daytum.com, and infographics in general), so it’s not really cut and dried as semi-direct inspiration or riffing on a motif, etc. Anyway, I really admire Felton’s work, I think he’s a brilliant designer. These illustrations look great, too.

]]> By: maurene http://www.designsponge.com/2009/08/we-are-the-friction.html/comment-page-1#comment-103924 maurene Sat, 22 Aug 2009 17:47:52 +0000 http://www.designspongeonline.com/?p=31464#comment-103924 Jon Klassen's prints (including the iceberg one!) can be purchased at Gallery Nucleus's website: http://gallerynucleus.com/detail/6015 Jon Klassen’s prints (including the iceberg one!) can be purchased at Gallery Nucleus’s website:

http://gallerynucleus.com/detail/6015

]]> By: grace http://www.designsponge.com/2009/08/we-are-the-friction.html/comment-page-1#comment-103276 grace Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:56:07 +0000 http://www.designspongeonline.com/?p=31464#comment-103276 btw- even vague accusations of copying are taken seriously around here, so if you'd like to accuse something of being inspired, in quotation marks, please leave a real name. anonymous claims don't sit well with us at d*s. claims like this can effect people's careers and shouldn't be whipped off with fake names, emails or handles. grace btw- even vague accusations of copying are taken seriously around here, so if you’d like to accuse something of being inspired, in quotation marks, please leave a real name. anonymous claims don’t sit well with us at d*s. claims like this can effect people’s careers and shouldn’t be whipped off with fake names, emails or handles.

grace

]]> By: grace http://www.designsponge.com/2009/08/we-are-the-friction.html/comment-page-1#comment-103270 grace Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:52:03 +0000 http://www.designspongeonline.com/?p=31464#comment-103270 commentor they definitely look similar, but they also look like an awful lot of other covers out there right now. both remind me of mcsweeny's covers and even earlier, the old "whole earth" catalogs. grace commentor

they definitely look similar, but they also look like an awful lot of other covers out there right now. both remind me of mcsweeny’s covers and even earlier, the old “whole earth” catalogs.

grace

]]> By: commentor http://www.designsponge.com/2009/08/we-are-the-friction.html/comment-page-1#comment-103264 commentor Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:41:53 +0000 http://www.designspongeonline.com/?p=31464#comment-103264 looks like the cover designer was a liiiiiiiiiiiittle bit "inspired" by Feltrons annual reports http://feltron.com/index.php?/content/2008_annual_report/P3/ http://feltron.com/index.php?/content/2007_annual_report/P4/ looks like the cover designer was a liiiiiiiiiiiittle bit “inspired” by Feltrons annual reports
http://feltron.com/index.php?/content/2008_annual_report/P3/
http://feltron.com/index.php?/content/2007_annual_report/P4/

]]> By: Lizzy http://www.designsponge.com/2009/08/we-are-the-friction.html/comment-page-1#comment-103203 Lizzy Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:33:20 +0000 http://www.designspongeonline.com/?p=31464#comment-103203 The iceberg illustration is by the wonderful Jon Klassen. You can see more of his work at www.burstofbeaden.com The iceberg illustration is by the wonderful Jon Klassen. You can see more of his work at http://www.burstofbeaden.com

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