Seeing

Carl DeTorres, famed graphic designer based in Oakland, California, created this set of posters for IBM’s Think exhibit in New York. Individually the posters highlight five key principles to making the world work better: Seeing, Mapping, Understanding, Believing and Acting. Together the posters form one giant poster that communicates the overall idea of progress.

Mapping

Understanding

Believing

Acting

View more of Carl’s work here.

via Design Envy

In an age of gross maximalism, advertising agency DLKW Lowe reminds us that less really is more.  To advertise Legoland Minibreaks, its resort packages, new hotel and that kids get in free, the agency installed tiny Lego billboards throughout London, shared a Google map with their locations and invited people to tweet a photo of them with a #legolandminibreaks when discovered.  A+ for a creative and cost effective campaign utilizing social media to do all the hard work.

It didn’t take long for me to become completely obsessed with Instagram the very moment I uploaded my first photo. If you haven’t used it yet, think of it as Flickr meets Twitter. They’ve reinvented how we share photos with our family and friends, making it easy to upload to Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr.

I’ve found that everyone, including myself, have started to pay more attention to the details. Thanks to camera phones, we’ve become more aware of the world around us; we’re paying more attention to the sky, the walls, the corners of the room, the gutters, and everyones day to day living.

I follow a lot of Instagram accounts, so it was hard to choose, but below are my current picks for the top 5 Instagram users to follow.

@charmaineolivia
Get an inside look into the studio and personal life of San Francisco based fine artist Charmaine Olivia.

@edroste
Travel the world with Grizzly Bear lead singer Ed Droste!

@markweaver
Mark Weaver is a graphic designer and illustrator based in New York. His photos are beautiful and nostalgic, and every now and then he throws in an “awww”-dorable photo of his daughter, Olive.

@tavitulle
Add some whimsy with a dash of teen angst to your day with everyones favorite young fashion blogger, Tavi Gevinson.

@awallacavage
Adam Wallacavage is an artist and photographer with a skill in octopus chandelier making. Yes, octopus chandelier making. Both quarky and creepy, every upload from Adam is always a treat (you can also catch him hanging out with A-list celebrities and art royalty alike.)

What are your favorite Instagram users to follow?

Harry Potter fans will enjoy this vintage-inspired twist that illustrator and designer Caroline Hadilaksono has given to the magical world of the Harry Potter series.

These posters pay homage to the classic illustrated style that was often used in mid-century marketing materials such as these posters for Disneyland.

Caroline has been a part of some great contributions to the design community, including an open-source typeface collection named The League of Moveable Type.

You can view more of her work at her website.

“Conceived and curated by Thierry W Despont, “Le Cabinet de Curiosités “ is a unique off-site installation in which contemporary art converges with 18th- and 19th- century antiquities in a setting that blurs the confines of time and categorization. Presenting work by Marlborough artists Thierry W Despont, Manolo Valdés and the late Claudio Bravo, as well as rare antique furniture from the Steinitz Collection.” – via the Marlborough Gallery

Despont's mask 95, 2007

Thierry W Despont Insect Collection

You can always expect the unexpected when Tim Burton is involved. Today, Warner Bros. released the character posters for the new vampire comedy Dark Shadows.

Vampires are pale, yes, but their personalities in this colorful journey of love, gothic horror, and witchcraft, are summed up perfectly in each poster below.

In the year 1752, Joshua and Naomi Collins, with young son Barnabas, set sail from Liverpool, England to start a new life in America. But even an ocean was not enough to escape the mysterious curse that has plagued their family. Two decades pass and Barnabas (Johnny Depp) has the world at his feet-or at least the town of Collinsport, Maine. The master of Collinwood Manor, Barnabas is rich, powerful and an inveterate playboy…

…until he makes the grave mistake of breaking the heart of Angelique Bouchard (Eva Green). A witch, in every sense of the word, Angelique dooms him to a fate worse than death: turning him into a vampire, and then burying him alive. Two centuries later, Barnabas is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate has fallen into ruin. The dysfunctional remnants of the Collins family have fared little better, each harboring their own dark secrets. Matriarch Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (Michelle Pfeiffer) has called upon live-in psychiatrist, Dr. Julia Hoffman (Helena Bonham Carter), to help with her family troubles.

Watch the trailer for Dark Shadows here, in theaters May 11th!

It’s nice to see a poster that directly relates to the narrative content of the show instead of just a glamor shot of the cast with some obscure concept supplied by the photographer.

The masthead on every issue of Apartamento reads ‘an everyday interiors magazine’, after reading it from cover to cover, one discovers that it is exactly that.

There is nothing pretentious about this beautifully produced publication. Although published in Spain, this magazine is written entirely in English. It has become a great resource for inspiration and reference. All the location’s flaws are photographed with love and affection. The articles cover locations as they are used. There is no stylist to clean up and rearrange.

Learn more about Apartamento Magazine here!

Finally something for the sports intellectual in your family.  Time.com, Time magazine’s companion website, kicks off March Madness with its first sports blog, Keeping Score.  Unlike other online sports destinations and in true Time style, Keeping Score won’t smell of buffalo wings and beer or yell at the TV unexpectedly, rather Keeping Score will highlight sports around the world, their cultural, economic and political impact.  With any luck, this fresh approach to the discussion of sports could actually win over a few new fans and expand the scope of the topic beyond scores and who fumbled what.

Check out Keeping Score here.