Global Graphica

Absolutely brilliant idea for an Apple Store display: Suspending a new MacBook Air laptop from a floating balloon.

To views of  the entrance tent to the 2011 Art Los Angeles Contemporary art fair at the Barker Hangar at the Santa Monica Airport, in L.A.

Wonderful mural of faces along the wall under the Sunset Boulevard bridge spanning Glendale Blvd. near the Echoplex in Echo Park, in Los Angeles. We were there last night to see the band Deerhoof play a show.

Graffiti on a Bowery hoarding: “CALM PASS ION ATE BAND IT SPIES HELL YES WHAT IS CRACK KING GUILD QUIET VICTOR LANKE ALOT.”

Davos, Switzerland, is a famous Alpine resort town now better known globally for being the site of the annual World Economic Forum than for its ski slopes and chalet.  The WEF takes place this week, from January 26-30. In reading recent news about the event and town of Davos itself, we recently stumbled upon the official “wappen” crest, which we find striking in it’s utter simplicity and, frankly, its dullness. And , yet, it has a refreshing look.

Multiple stencils of hip-hop supa-dupa-star producer and rapper Kanye West on the protective wood lamp post hoarding in Nolita, in downtown New York City. “Diddy Sucks” (a reference to music mogul P. Diddy, a.k.a. Puff Daddy, a.k.a. Sean Combs) and “You Would” are written next the image of Kanye. Too funny. The stencil looks great.

( Red ) “2015″ campaign advertisement mural on the side of tenement building on Mulberry Street in Nolita / SoHo, downtown New York City.

We landed in snow at John F. Kennedy International Airport just after another massive blizzard hit New York City. The JFK runways and tarmac were blanketed in snowfall, which made for a high-contrast backdrop for all the planes and other vehicles and their colorful logos. The logo for this Cargolux Boeing 747 taxiing for take-off really pops. Love it.

Wonderful, bright light on a winter afternoon at the wonderful, bright vintage-modern De Jaren Cafe in Amsterdam, one of our favorite places for killing a couple of hours reading over a coffee or beer.

Along with the Sartorialist, the Style Rookie is another of our favorite go-to style blogs. Also known as “the New Girl in Town,” the site is written by 13-year-old Tavi Gevinson, who in a couple of years went from obscurity to becoming an influential voice in global style, invited to sit in the front row at fashion shows and pen stories for magazines.

We recently unlocked the Foursquare Fresh Brew badge. It was a pleasant surprise. But what we found even more pleasant was the badge design itself, which is elegant in its simplicity. Good stuff.  (BTW, we unlocked the badge while checking in at Intelligentsia Coffee at Sunset Junction in Silver Lake, in Los Angeles.)

The man and photographer behind one of our favorite blogs, The Sartorialist, is profiled in this short-form documentary video, part of Intel’s Visual Life series.

Dangerbird Records office and the landmark Pablove Foundation’s “PabLove One Another” mural on Sunset Boulevard  in Silverlake, in Los Angeles.

Lovely open wood-shutters on a classic Dutch townhouse in Amsterdam.

Our Global Graphica friend and all-round creative force of goodness,  Richard, sent us this pic from the road and it put a massive smile on our face: The “Meat Without Feet” truck somewhere in the wilds of greater New York City suburbia (quite possibly Conneticut). Clever touch of marketing. LOVE IT.

Image Copyright 2011 Richard Haase. All rights reserved.

Love the logo and design of this Jupiler beer coaster we found in Amsterdam. Jupiler is a massively popular Belgian lager widely available in Belgium’s neighbor, the Netherlands.

Robot graffiti drawn in red ink in a cafe bathroom stall in Amsterdam’s Nine Streets / Jordaan neighborhood.

Select shots of life-size letters sculpture of the “I Amsterdam” logo and slogan in Museumplein park next to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Holland.

The wonderful graphic design of the Echte Boter wrapper in Holland.

Dutch traffic tow-away warning sign in Amsterdam.