What better way to celebrate the past year and begin a new one than with The Year in Pictures? After all, they say a thousand words. What do these ones say to you?
The Best Part of the New Year
Decoding O'Dell
Shaun O'Dell creates highly coded drawings which draw their inspiration from the iconography of the American Frontier and the "expansionist doctrine of Manifest Destiny".
And They Do it All Well
Post Typography does a little bit of everything. And by everything, I mean graphic design, illustration, lettering & typography, logos & identity, advertising, signage, web design, apparel, packaging, environmental design, (breath) film titles, publication design and writing. 
Typographic Masonry
Richard Niessen and Esther de Vries create graphic constructions of type that defy categorization.
Drawing Inspiration
The incredibly intricate drawings of Keiko Itakura are exercises in creating mind-blowing patterns from what seem like millions of lines.
A Brief Intermission
With the Christmas holiday around the corner, I will be taking a break from The Best Part until next week to deal with enjoy visiting family. Until then, enjoy these random family photos found on the interwebs, some intentionally cheesy, and some not (I'll let you decide which are which). Happy Holidays to all!
Delicate and Dangerous
Poster/Wallpaper/Pattern designer Dan Funderburgh creates intricate patterns with everything from hatchets and knives to shovels and phones.
Apocalyptic Beauty
Photographer Sean Higgins culls material from the NASA photo archives, giving it a touch of the surreal by deleting content until it resembles an apocalyptic skyscape.
Not Your Dorm Room's PBR Sign
I'm loving artist Tim Mitchells' works in neon...ironic statements given permanence in gas-filled glass.
Honoring Natural History Through Packaging
What better to honor thousand-year-old olive trees which have given their fruit for the sake of our consumption for the better half of written history than an amazing packaging experience? The olive oil packaging of El Mil Del Poaig, by Spanish design firm CuldeSac is nothing short of genius. The sensually-shaped spout is designed to leave not a single drop to waste, instead directing any overflow back into the bottle.
Seriously, if you think about it, these very same olive trees could have been picked of their olives and enjoyed by 50 or so generations of people, most likely descendants of each other, since 500 years (give or take) before there was an America. Mind-bottling.
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