Product Love. The super-thick May issue of Metropolis arrived last week and we're slowly digesting it. It's the Special Product Issue and at first flip-through, the series Graphic Homage is screaming at us to post it on AT. Metropolis invited five graphic designers to illustrate a product that they find beautiful, useful, and indispensable. The image above is by designers Post Typography of the Post-It Note...
Others examples include:
Lizzie Finn — Zipper
Catalogtree — Pushpin
Check out the whole series online or pick up this amazing issue of Metropolis — it is full of good stuff!
Jonya & Brad's Modern A–Frame 
Quick Cleaning Tip: Keep Baseboards Cleaner With Fabric Softner
Good Food to Share 
The Big Book of Small, Cool Spaces 
Apartment Therapy Presents 
The Eight-Step Home Cure 
Profile Chair by Ma...
Mac and Cheese: The Secret to Making It Rich and Creamy
Summer Recipe: No-Bake Strawberry Icebox Cake
Comments (6)
I had a quick look at the article. I found the thumbtack really annoying- not for the image, but for the following comment;
"We left several other tools lying around that we also used to make the image (table, chairs, MacBook)"
A macbook? They needed a macbook to make that image? Come on!
It is safe to assume they needed a MacBook more than the table and chairs. The image is a combination of halftone screens, most likely achieved in Photoshop.
the post-typography boys ARE MY BOYS! nolan bruce are geniuses, i say!
The thumbtack looks like something from the rasterbator.
This reminds me of an amazing exhibition I saw in a magazine years ago. The artist is deaf and relies a great deal on notes to communicate. S/he (can't remember) kept several years worth of notes written and received - from the intimate to the mundane - and then covered the walls of an entire room with them, every inch, all color coded. I wish I had seen it in real life.
This reminds me of a piece done by one of my favorite artists. The gallery director was retiring and they decided to commission Adrian Gollner to do his portrait. He decided the post-it notes would be appropriate considering the office environment.
http://adriangollner.ca/pancho.html (Scroll down to the bottom.)