Recently I've discovered the wonderful works of a very talented Romanian illustrator - Livia Coloji.

This is her selfportrait.

She has a very distinctive style of illustration, using acrylics for her paintings and Xara for digital illustrations, a style that is perfect for children books (she already illustrated a few), postcards, greeting cards and all things handmade.

Visit her portfolio and check on Livia's updates.

I have a Twitter account now.
Will be posting quick updates, links and other stuff I might me involved in or find to be interesting.

Follow me to follow you.

After FF Meta got a Serif version, now, with the 80th birthday of Adrian Frutiger, Linotype released a Serif version of Frutiger.

Based on an earlier typeface - Meridien - Frutiger Serif is a new typeface family, updated and expanded from Meridien and was produced by Adrian Frutiger and Akira Kobayashi.
Some of the changes include more weights in the family, a condensed version, lining and OSF, small caps, extra characters, some revised characters and more.

For more details and samples, read Linotype's news page about this release.

On Veer's website you can view three presentations from SweetTalk NYC.

Speakers: Michael C. Place from Build, Michael Gillette a fine British-pop illustrator and Glen E. Friedman, the famous skateboarding photographer interviewed by another photographer, Aidan Kelly.

The presentations are very interesting and fun to watch. What else can you do on a rainy Saturday afternoon...

Ioana Marinescu is a talented Romanian architecture photographer.
She already published in magazines like Architectural Review, Architect's Journal, Elle Deco or Lotus International.

It seems that the old funkyou.ro website has some new owners and its making a comeback.

Funk You is a platform for experimental graphic design and will be the first magazine of its kind in Eastern Europe. Our aim is to present designers with the opportunity to express themselves without the constraints of a usual designer-client relationship.
Funk You stands for experiments and developing new ideas. Everything is possible and we want to encourage people to try a new way of thinking and creating. Funk You will feature both Romanian and international designers.

The guys at Citrus Design, with Stefan Lucut as an Art Director, are releasing through this new platform a quarterly magazine featuring artists and projects, the Funk You website and forum, a new website - minimalexperimental.com - that will organize monthly graphic design exhibitions, then some workshops and presentations organized three or four times a year.

I'll wait to see what the guys have prepared for us, but for now, all this looks very promising. Nice going guys!

We all know the fact that videos on Youtube have bad quality because of high compression and most of them look awful.

Some of the videos on youtube are high quality actually, only they are displayed as a high-compression-low-quality version.

But what if we can see most of them in high quality and really enjoy the details in each video?

Try adding to the url of each video - in the address bar of your browser - this little string: &fmt=18 and see what happens.

It's that easy!