10.13.2009

Pr*tty Sh*tty

The other day I kind of happened upon this blog: pr*tty sh*tty--actually, I think someone I follow on Twitter had tweeted about it (and if I could find the original post, I would SO credit you!).

This blog is quickly becoming a favorite, if only because they are not blogging about Target's new Up & Up packaging, or Nickelodeon's new logo, they're covering design that we see every day, yet don't notice all that much. Parking garages, moving vans, movie posters... There's actually a pretty great quote on the about page--from Michael Surtees' Design Notes blog--that does a great job of summing it up:

Designers who win awards for edgy design they did for a friend’s business, with a print run of one hundred or something like that? They’ve got no art director, no creative director, no client’s representative, no agency person. Where’s the obstacle to good design there? But take something like a cheese. When I see a really good package for a cheese, I know what that designer went through to get there. It makes me want to fall on my knees and kiss that designer’s feet, that cheese.


Go see pr*tty sh*tty. It's really pr*tty gr**t.

1 comment:

pr*tty sh*tty said...

Thanks for the very positive review Tracie. Always nice to hear people are enjoying the blog.

Funny that you refer to me as a "they". Does that mean it looks like I'm doing the work of more than one person? The daily updates can be a lot of work, but it's a labor of love.

Anyway, thanks again.