Thanks to Mitzie Testani for submitting this very cool X as part of the 21Xhibit call for entries. Mitzie shot this while visiting New York and was intrigued by this unusual X. IF you’d like to see some of her design work, you can click here. You can also check out her great photography on Flickr by going here. And once again, if you’d like to submit an X, your image must be 5.5 x 5.5 inches, RGB in 300 dpi. We’ll post all the entries as they are submitted. By the end of the year, we’ll pick the best 21 submissions, and the great part is we’ll print up the top 21 X’s in a nifty little book with your name in it. Each of the winning entries will receive a personal copy. We can’t wait to see your X! Send all entries to info@21xdesign.com, and please include your name. Your X can be a graphic, an illustration, something typographic or photographic. It could even be a still from a video. We’re open to all suggestions and we’re looking forward to seeing your submission!

Here’s the latest X for our 21Xhibit call for entries. This X is from Steve Decusatis. Thanks Steve! You can also check out Steve’s work. And remember, in case you missed our earlier post, if you’d like to be a part of this, we’re looking for a few good X’s. Twenty one of them, to be exact. So, if you feel like being creative this summer, send us your X. It can be a photograph, an illustration, or a typographic image. Really, we’re open to anything, so long as it relates to the letter X. Your image must be 5.5 x 5.5 inches, RGB in 300 dpi. We’ll post all the entries as they are submitted. By the end of the summer, we’ll pick the best 21 submissions, and the great part is we’ll print up the top 21 X’s in a nifty little book with your name in it. Each of the winning entries will receive a personal copy. We can’t wait to see your X! Send all entries to info@21xdesign.com, and please include your name.

Mike McDonald sent us the first X for 21Xhibit. It’s pretty cool, check it out. As we get more entries, we’ll post them here, and eventually to our Flickr account. Check out Mike’s cool work here.

We’re looking for a few good X’s. Twenty one of them, to be exact. So, if you feel like being creative this summer, send us your X. It can be a photograph, an illustration, or a typographic image. Really, we’re open to anything, so long as it relates to the letter X. Your image must be 5.5 x 5.5 inches, RGB in 300 dpi. We’ll post all the entries as they are submitted. By the end of the summer, we’ll pick the best 21 submissions, and the great part is we’ll print up the top 21 X’s in a nifty little book with your name in it. Each of the winning entries will receive a personal copy. We can’t wait to see your X! Send all entries to info@21xdesign.com, and please include your name.

Check out a few more nifty boxes below. Really nice use of halftone dots in a couple of these.

We picked these post WWII era cigarette boxes in a great flea market in Tokyo. The boxes only measure 1.75” x 2.75”. The boxes have an array of wonderful designs. We will feature a selection of our collection on an ongoing basis in this blog so check back.

We launched the Jones Family Farm website in Dec ’09. What an interesting place – this family owned and operated farm/business has been in operation for 150 years. It’s 400 acres is in a charming setting and takes me back to my summers in the west of Ireland. You can feel the history and character of the area when you walk around the farm and look across its stone walls into the valley. Made me feel like putting on me wellies and muckin in! More at – http://www.jonesfamilyfarms.com/

DUBLIN 1980 – As requested we have uploaded more images from our “Time Gone By” series. As we scan in the negatives we are discovering a lost world. I remember taking most of the images and some of the comments or at least the mood as I captured the image. People were always friendly, many joked about being photographed while some told a joke, others were unaware and the kids were always curious and wide-eyed at becoming part of something. This Dublin could be grey and overcast but it overflowed with color from the people that called it home. See more here.

Shown here is a recent book cover we designed for Paul Dry Books in Philadelphia. “Style an Anti-Textbook,” by Richard Lanham is a book that regards writing as “pleasure rather than duty.” It’s basically an antidote to your typical, boring classroom book on how to write “well.” We thought that this “revolutionary” approach to writing lent itself to this typographic treatment inspired, of course, by Russian Constructivism. But I guess, having the title and this typographic, constructivist inspired cover, could also mean that it’s meaning and the book’s content, could also be read in different ways, depending on your perspective. And so it was that the esteemed San Francisco Museum of Modern Art snapped up 60 copies of the book for their in-house museum store, figuring that the book was of course about design, not writing. However, on closer inspection of the cover, they were surprised to see that that book had nothing to do with design, or constructivism, but rather writing and the teaching of writing. Maybe the old axiom of not judging a book by its cover remains true but it also makes me wonder how much text people actually read on a cover?

Sadly, SFMOMA returned all the copies. I suppose it goes to show, that you truly cannot judge a book by its cover, especially if you don’t read all the copy.