Snow everywhere

NW view of Straja Peak, Valea Jiului, Romania.

Few things can compare with the pleasure of freeriding through the snow powder, down the slopes of the mountain, through woods and alpine plains alike. I only hope that I’ll still be able to ski — meaning, we’ll still have enough snow — in Romania ten or twenty years from now.

Happy holidays everyone, snowy or sunny, just as you like it :)

You can view a larger image, along with others on my flickr. Two videos with my brother and I freeriding are also online on youtube, here and here :)

Later edit:
Well, it seems ‘freeriding’ is a snowboarding term, so the better thing to use would be backcountry skiing :)

Buckets Of Rain

Love this print by Punchgut Studio. It was up for sale at Robot Walrus, a very nice place where you can find lots of posters, but it’s sold out now.

(thanks Alin for finding Robot Walrus)

Type In London

No wonder London designers are so good, growing up seeing such beautiful type treatments day by day surely has its impact.

London Shop Fronts is the blog where you can admire more of these beautiful store fronts.
(via Swiss Miss)

United Visual Artists created the Massive Attack…

…stageset for their latest tour. UVA based their set up around a huge LCD screen, dominating the stage (unforgetable impressive, as I’ve written just after the Bucharest concert). All the animations were superbly syncronized with the music — political messages running on the screen, huge, red or white, flickering, dominating, pulsating, penetrating the wide-open eyes. The beautiful part was that, at first, I thought that the screen was similar to the one Muse brought the year before, coloured streams of light flooding the stage as the music got higher and higher. But when the light began to shape shift into letters, and then into maps, images, drops of water, I could not help but watch in awe a political–manifesto–perfectly–built show, meant to strike everyone to the core — not just a normal music concert.

I’d bet that none present there left untouched.

You can view larger images on UVA’s page about the shows (these ones are from The Royal Festival Hall).

And if you’re wondering who the hell UVA are, I bet you’ve seen this before:

It’s their much-awarded project “Volume“. UVA also did shows for Massive Attack before, U2 and many more, as you can see here and here.

(via fabrikproject — thanks Alin for the tip ;)

Paprika — design from Canada

Outstanding work from Paprika, based in Montreal, Canada. The prints will make you drool, for sure. Emboss, foils, laser, diecuts, you name it. I also admire their identities, minimalistic, simple, most of them based on type and images — one doesn’t need a complicated logo when a good, clear&functional visual identity is present. Another thing to admire is their ability to create both rational, strong design and emotional, delicate design (check out their beautiful packaging).

(via Dieline)

John Cleary — black&white, again

With a retro, maybe even a Magritte feel, John Cleary plays with black and light (must I say pun intended? :P).

(via Monici, thanks)

The Grid System — the org

Antonio Carusone from AisleOne decided to do the right thing and started www.thegridsystem.org, “the ultimate resource in grid systems”.

The website contains links, templates, books, articles, just about anything that has connections to the principles of grid designing. You Work For Them also supports this great initiative (in case you didn’t know, YWFT has some of the best design-but-not-only books for sale).

The website is grid-based, of course, and it’s a pleasure to look at (check out the up-right-side button):

The initiative also has a Flickr group, join up and share your grid creations.