Dream Diary - 17/10/09 (via Olly Moss)

Olly Moss is a British illustrator who I’m somewhat obsessed with. His film poster reimaginings, his t-shirt designs, his Saul Bass homage poster for Lost, pretty much anything that he posts to his Flickr account. This is today’s post, a graphic illustration of a dream he had.

Pure talent.

I like the new Tumblr iPhone interface. It’s cleaner, responsive, focused on content, and more efficiently spaced. I can’t shake the feeling that it FEELS different though. Not worse, just different. Perhaps this is Jacob Bijani’s design influence?

Also, it amuses me that my quick screenshot of the app includes Blake Whitman, who was also featured on the staff post. Small coincidences always do.

ok, one last inspiration post before I make some popcorn and watch a bad movie on a very quiet friday night. My German skills are failing me, and the text is really small, but if memory serves this is Death saying that he can’t take any more (after the trench warfare in Belgium has caused such stupefying levels of carnage).

via SIMPLICISSIMUS

I have a fascination with the early twentieth century subversive German literary magazine, Simplicissimus, that’s due in equal share to my German history classes, fall spent living and working in Munich right near the Alter Simpl, and appetite for imagery. Simplicissimus was important for more than its art, but it’s so visually stunning that it’s hard not to forget the political message…well, until you see a cover depicting Death stalking Europe during WWI or the “red beast” of Communism rising from beneath a city in the industrialized Ruhr valley.

Anyhow…more to come on this topic.

jacob:

nicotobares:

Thank you David, Jacob and the rest of the Tumblr. staff. You’ve created a wonderful product and an amazing community. :D

I just found this, but I wanted to reblog it. I’m so happy to have V5 finally released, and that it was so well received. There is a lot more coming, just wait.

Also, big ups on using the proper Tumblr secondary/print font ;-)

Agreed. The new dashboard is a great improvement, and I have a feeling v6 will introduce a better way to track reblogs/likes and whatever else they come up with  (answers?) in a dashboard sidebar of some sort.

David, Marco, Jacob, and the rest of you - thank you, and keep up the good work!