Robert Haverly: Archive

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Puma's Clever Little Bag

So I picked myself up some Ligas today, and since I finally had the infamous bag in my possession (infamous in the design industry, anyway): I decided to snap some shots and blog about it real quick. Dubbed Clever Little Bag, this unit of awesomeness is not only topless, missing a large portion of wasteful cardboard, cut out of one piece of material which goes together like a puzzle, and comes...

Feb 4th

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Occupy! Cover Design by Kelli Anderson

This beautify designed book cover belongs to an equally interesting book. I haven’t read it, so I’ll not say much about it. But I did want to bring to your attention the incredible detail that went in to this design, particularly the subtle imagery of protesters cleverly masked inside of the typography. It’s edgy and smart, and Kelli Anderson deserves a pat on the back. For...

Dec 16th

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2012, The Year Of Tangerine Tango

Pantone has released its always interesting color of year. This year it’s a feisty shade of orange (or red?), and they’ve dubbed it “Tangerine Tango.” The Pantone code is 17-1463, but since I live in the web world, I’ve recreated it with this hex code: #e1523d. I also took the liberty of putting together some split-complements (see graphic above). Those hexes are...

Dec 11th

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RIP Steve Jobs

“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works “- Steve Jobs Original Article

Oct 6th

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Astonish Me

“Every day we lose more of the natural world. And each time we find something new, we realize there’s so much more out there that we don’t know.” The World Wildlife Fun is certainly no stranger to making great viral videos. But this one deserves a bit of extra credit. Astonish Me is basically a hollywood quality short film showcasing a great message in a pretty unique way. At any rate, I...

Aug 10th

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And that's that.

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Jul 4th

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Kirby! (Kirbi! Kirbé!)

That’s right. I just made a Tony! Toni! Toné! reference. There are times (from no fault of my own, mind you), where I come across extremely strange and mystical things. And some times they turn out to be awesomely inspiring. Today contained one of those times. Thanks to my friend Nate, my eyes befell upon a real gem of unexpected inspiration: Kirby. Yes, Kirby; that weird-ass pink blob...

Jun 20th

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Dogs in the Workplace: win-win.

Now normally I don’t post things that aren’t design related in some way. But Andy Levitt, founder of HealthTalker sent this article to me today. And being that I’m 100% for animal-friendly workplaces, I thought I should share it. Everywhere. Now I (like most people), am of the mind that your dog should go everywhere with you. Including work - provided of course that you...

May 26th

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Google Music!

I’m excited to report that I have successfully received my Google Music invite and got it rolling. Currently it’s automatically uploading my iTunes library, including playlists and album art. As you would expect from Google, the UI is form over function, and leaves much to be [aesthetically] desired. But c’mon. Having all of your playlists available and up-to-date from any...

May 26th

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The Cassette Tape Insert Card

Cassette tape insert cards: We’ve all had them. We’ve also all ignored them. And We’ve also all throw them away, drew on them, put stickers all over them, set them on fire, and got annoyed at them every time they slipped out and wouldn’t go back in correctly unless you used the tape to push it down. But I’m confident in saying that we haven’t done, is enjoyed...

Apr 25th

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Sonoran: not really the next Helvetica

I don’t know if anyone was paying attention, but idsgn had a fun little April fools joke for us this year. It was a slick new font family; Sonoran, and was going to replace Helvetica as the go-to hipster font. Obviously, this was not true (duh, no font can be more hipster than Helvetica). But I love font family sample graphics. I think they’re sexy. So even though this is actually...

Apr 23rd

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You Took My Name

Dorothy is working on a fun project that’s been catching a lot of well deserved web-buzz lately. They call it “stripping famous logos back to their basic graphic form,” I call it a fantastic experiment in brand recognition, and an affirmation of all the work that goes into something that seems so simple in the end: Color, and form. Check out the rest of the pieces here:...

Apr 22nd

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Rhythm. It is, a dancer.

Seriously, what do I even need to say about this? Original Article

Apr 22nd

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What is Consciousness?

Information is Beautiful launched a fun flash app to survey what peoples opinions are about what consciousness really is. As you would expect, the designs in the app itself are super sexy. For the record, I got “Functionalistic Pan Psychic Higher Order Thoerist” Original Article

Mar 23rd

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The "Line-Height-Laziness" Problem

I see this a lot. The infamous one-shot line height, where every line takes up the same level of vertical space. This works great, and is often used in CSS to set the height of certain elements like buttons, list-items, headers, inputs, and other block and inline-block level elements within a website. The problem, however, arises when attention isn’t paid to detail (big surprise there), and...

Jan 30th

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Minimalist Depictions of Music Genres

Edits by Edit put together a pretty awesome set of prints. With the collaboration of 13 different artists they released an amazing set of posters, each using only one element and one typeface to depict a certain genre of music. The result is 13 amazing minimalist depictions of genres. These would go great along side the minimalist music video and movie posters set, and minimalist album covers...

Jan 3rd

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Ampersand.

Ahh, the ampersand. Everyone loves the ampersand, and none of us could live without it. Here’s a collection of 32 inspiring ampersand designs, done by 32 different artists. Original Article

Dec 22nd

Dec 17th

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Some Advantages of Using a Chrome Notebook

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Dec 13th

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Over 3000 Vintage Logos

Eric Carl put up the time to scan in a massive collection of vintage logos from the out of print 1970’s book: World of Logotypes. Original Article

Dec 13th

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Pure Reader is Pure Awesome

Pure Reader, or, “how to make Google Reader not ugly” is an amazing browser extension/plugin by Na Wong to re-skin Google Reader in a sexy, OS matching, and more usable way. It currently works in Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and he also made a Greasemonkey script for good measure. He also provides the CSS in the instance that you want to port it over to another browser or add features. ...

Dec 9th

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The Evolution of Typography

Typefaces and fonts are at the forefront of design, whether it be designing a word document for work or designing a Fortune 500 website. The fonts that we choose can determine how we portray ourselves – as an individual or a business. You can grab the crazy huge version of it here: http://webdesignledger.com/infographics/the-evolution-of-typography-infographic Original Article

Dec 3rd

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Minimalist Album Covers

I tend to post alot of minimalist stuff. If someone came up to my on the street on asked me what styles are art I was most attracted too, I don’t think my answer would instinctively be “minimalist.” But I’m starting to wonder now. At any rate. Ty Lettau from Sound of Design made these awesome minimalist album covers, which are truly inspiring, and go well with the...

Dec 3rd

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Painting Process GIFs

By Richard Wilkinson

Nov 24th

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CSS3 Media Queries

With the rapid growth and immanent surpassing of mobile web browsing over desktop/laptop web browsing, screen size and fluidity is now more of an issue than ever before. Luckily, CSS3 has come to the rescue with it’s far more advanced upgrade of media queries. Remember those @print stylesheets that you always thought would be a good idea to use, but never actually did? Well, now you can...

Nov 20th

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Watch

Colin Haley’s solo ascent of Aguja Guillaumet in Patagonia.

Nov 16th

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Colin Haley's solo ascent of Aguja Guillaumet

Colin Haley’s solo ascent of Aguja Guillaumet in Patagonia. Original Article

Nov 16th

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Shepard Fairey Hits the Sewers

The Don Gallery, in collaboration with the city of Milan, presents a series manhole covers by international artists: Shepard Fairey, Invader, The London Police, Flying Fortress and Rendo. They will have their works embedded in the busiest streets of Milan and will remain for two years. Pedestrians can catch a glimpse of the pieces as early as Thursday.

Nov 16th

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The Sketchbook Project

This may in-fact be the coolest idea ever. The Sketchbook Project, 2011 Tour. Thousands of sketchbooks will be exhibited at galleries and museums as they make their way on tour across the country. After the tour, all sketchbooks will enter into the permanent collection of The Brooklyn Art Library, where they will be barcoded and available for the public to view. Anyone - from anywhere in the...

Nov 15th

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