You know the drill: follow Upshot on Twitter to keep up on the latest SXSW Interactive news. It’s only three days away!
We’ve already mentioned that location is the watchword at this year’s SXSWi, but we’d advise you to keep your eyes out for news on QR codes as well. Longtime readers know that we’ve been [...]

No need to dig any further – one glance at this package and you get the gist of Scanwood kitchen utensils. They’re wooden. They’re authentic. They’re natural.
(Of course, you can also zoom in a bit and see the “Designed in Denmark. Made by nature” tagline on the side.)
Scanwood’s packaging instantly drives the message home, especially [...]

Since we recently passed along a handful of helpful tips for creating fonts in Photoshop, we figured we’d round that out with another tutorial on creating vintage/retro images and posters in Photoshop.
This link gathers 20 guides to vintage ads, retro concert posters, and other designs ranging from vaudeville to horror movies.
Everything old is new again.

Well, sometimes.
At least when it comes to Under Consideration’s Most Relevant Brand Identity Work of the Decade. In their year-by-year breakdown of the aughts, they cover the best, the worst, and the biggest logo makeovers under the banner of “most relevant.” Let the debates begin.
Guess where London 2012 fits?

Sure,  this romp through the 2000s is entertaining in its own right (even if many of the referenced events were decidedly not entertaining), but Phillip Niemeyer’s NY Times pictograph does an excellent summing up a decade in simple images and phrases.
(In order to really appreciate the piece, click here or on the image to the [...]

Game on! Mmmm… that fresh, new-decade smell is still in the air. But, that doesn’t mean we can’t still be a bit nostalgic about 2009.
How about a wrap-up of 2009 logo design trends? (And, the more important question: should we follow them?)

All the year-in-review lists wouldn’t be complete without a look at the best and worst logo makeovers of the past 12 months.
While they’re always up for debate, Under Consideration has put together their list of 2009’s best and worst brand identities.
You go, Melbourne.

And you thought barcodes needed to be uniform!
Check out these clever little guys, courtesy of Japanese firm d-barcode. (There’s a larger collection over at The Dieline.)
Besides the fact that this breaks up the monotony of an art director’s day, there’s a benefit here for the brand as well. Remember when we mentioned the joys of [...]

Yup, pretty much what the title says.
The Grain Edit blog has pulled together a series of travel posters from the 1950s-1970s that will alternately make you chuckle and/or want to get the hell out of town (although today’s not-so-bad weather is helping with the latter).
Check out the collection for yourself here.

If yesterday’s type tease didn’t get your inner geek all riled up, perhaps a Pantone iPhone app will arouse your inner art director?
Now available on the iPhone and iPod Touch for a single Hamilton, the MyPantone app unchains you from your desktop computer and let’s you throw together a palette on the go.
Features include:

Fan deck [...]