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Since its inception in 2009, Nanamee has grown to include over 25,000 curated stock images, vectors and audio, in a community that has grown to over 10,000 members.

Now, we are very proud to present The New Nanamee, and we hope you’ll agree with us that it is simply the most elegant, efficient way to purchase the best stock art online.

First up, the obvious–Nanamee now comes in a full-width layout, and you can now purchase items right from the thumbnail, thus making the shopping process a one-click transaction. If you have credits in your account, you can simply fly through the site selecting beautiful images, vectors and audio. Think of it like a prepaid phone card, rather than a shopping cart. We think this presents a much more efficient way to browse Nanamee’s massive stock library.

The interface is now sortable by media type at any point, and everything has been re-optimized. The images are much larger, resulting in huge previews in both “thumbnail” and “page” mode. Audio files now show runtime/duration in the file title, as well as Genre/ BPM details. There is also a new “Shuffle” sort option, which can be a great way to find inspiration for your designs.

Also, Nanamee is now powered by all-new credit pricing options, with packages as low as 70 cents per credit! Credit is available for purchase with any major Credit Card and/or PayPal.

The New Nanamee has been completely re-coded, which has increased the speed of the site by a factor of 5x, and all of the account areas have have been overhauled. “Likes” are much easier to add, view, and navigate, and “Follow” is much easier as well, with all-new sort and filter capabilities for designers you are subscribed to. You can also now log in to Nanamee using either your YouWorkForThem or Facebook account.

Sellers can now upload 20 files at a time–no more “one by one” restrictions, and the tool for adding new stock has been made faster and more efficient. Sales reports are now easier to read, and you can now export to CSV for use in your own local software/records. The new profile page design follows the new full-width layout.

Finally, thousands of new items have been uploaded into Nanamee from our exclusive YouWorkForThem stock library. For the first time ever, you can now buy these items individually, outside of their standard sets on YouWorkForThem.

And there you have it, folks. The New Nanamee. It’s live right now. Get over there and start downloading. Because with better stock art, you design better stuff, and that’s what we think 2013 is all about: Being Better.

nanamee-launch

We are very excited to announce the birth of the Nanamee community – a new, custom-built stock media community for designers and customers to do business. Nanamee comes with style already in place, as the sister company to YouWorkForThem, the world-renowned font, stock art and graphic design shop. This is the best and the brightest stuff in the world and it’s free, and presented in a simple system that is easy to use for designers and customers alike.

So what does all that mean for you? If you’re a contributor, it’s somewhere you can sell your work alongside a community of world-class peers, with the unique niche of curation by a world-class design brand. Follow and be followed within our community, and benefit from our custom system, designed for you to be able to move quickly from inspiration to marketplace. If you’re a customer, rest assured that we carry only the coolest stock media, and we offer extremely competitive pricing.

Join Nanamee today!

2010.11.30

Our studio and our lives are in the city of Bangkok, known to the natives as Krung Thep (“city of angels”). Like most creative folks, we draw our inspiration and our passion in part from what we see around us every day, and so we thought it might be nice to take a break from serving up fonts in order to illustrate some of the most common (but understated) sightings in everyday life.

With Bangkok being such a massive and complex city, this idea could of course take years, or even a lifetime to fully explore. We chose to keep it simple, and in so doing, we took a quick look at seven different small happenings in Bangkok life. We looked at the delivery drivers, the elderly, the commuters, and the traditions of our city of angels. These are the quirkily sublime; the fantastically normal; the heavenly ordinary events that happen every day, and we salute and marvel and celebrate them all.

The seven pieces were shot on the consecutive days of the week, and each has only about 10 seconds to capture a moment on the streets, and tell it in type, with a few letters and one font. The clips are simple, focused and to the point. The musical scores were completed by our partners at Madsound with the same idea in mind, keeping things simple with only a single rhythmic element and a single wind instrument.

Each day, for the next seven days, we will post one of the videos on our blog, which will then automatically spread out to Facebook, Twitter and Vimeo for everyone.

Font: Tee Franklin
Creative Director: Michael Paul Young
Art Director: Jackkrit Anantakul
Soundtrack: Madsound

2010.11.29

Our studio and our lives are in the city of Bangkok, known to the natives as Krung Thep (“city of angels”). Like most creative folks, we draw our inspiration and our passion in part from what we see around us every day, and so we thought it might be nice to take a break from serving up fonts in order to illustrate some of the most common (but understated) sightings in everyday life.

With Bangkok being such a massive and complex city, this idea could of course take years, or even a lifetime to fully explore. We chose to keep it simple, and in so doing, we took a quick look at seven different small happenings in Bangkok life. We looked at the delivery drivers, the elderly, the commuters, and the traditions of our city of angels. These are the quirkily sublime; the fantastically normal; the heavenly ordinary events that happen every day, and we salute and marvel and celebrate them all.

The seven pieces were shot on the consecutive days of the week, and each has only about 10 seconds to capture a moment on the streets, and tell it in type, with a few letters and one font. The clips are simple, focused and to the point. The musical scores were completed by our partners at Madsound with the same idea in mind, keeping things simple with only a single rhythmic element and a single wind instrument.

Each day, for the next seven days, we will post one of the videos on our blog, which will then automatically spread out to Facebook, Twitter and Vimeo for everyone.

Font: Taffee
Creative Director: Michael Paul Young
Art Director: Jackkrit Anantakul
Soundtrack: Madsound

2010.11.26

Our studio and our lives are in the city of Bangkok, known to the natives as Krung Thep (“city of angels”). Like most creative folks, we draw our inspiration and our passion in part from what we see around us every day, and so we thought it might be nice to take a break from serving up fonts in order to illustrate some of the most common (but understated) sightings in everyday life.

With Bangkok being such a massive and complex city, this idea could of course take years, or even a lifetime to fully explore. We chose to keep it simple, and in so doing, we took a quick look at seven different small happenings in Bangkok life. We looked at the delivery drivers, the elderly, the commuters, and the traditions of our city of angels. These are the quirkily sublime; the fantastically normal; the heavenly ordinary events that happen every day, and we salute and marvel and celebrate them all.

The seven pieces were shot on the consecutive days of the week, and each has only about 10 seconds to capture a moment on the streets, and tell it in type, with a few letters and one font. The clips are simple, focused and to the point. The musical scores were completed by our partners at Madsound with the same idea in mind, keeping things simple with only a single rhythmic element and a single wind instrument.

Each day, for the next seven days, we will post one of the videos on our blog, which will then automatically spread out to Facebook, Twitter and Vimeo for everyone.

Font: Interval
Creative Director: Michael Paul Young
Art Director: Jackkrit Anantakul
Soundtrack: Madsound

2010.11.25

Our studio and our lives are in the city of Bangkok, known to the natives as Krung Thep (“city of angels”). Like most creative folks, we draw our inspiration and our passion in part from what we see around us every day, and so we thought it might be nice to take a break from serving up fonts in order to illustrate some of the most common (but understated) sightings in everyday life.

With Bangkok being such a massive and complex city, this idea could of course take years, or even a lifetime to fully explore. We chose to keep it simple, and in so doing, we took a quick look at seven different small happenings in Bangkok life. We looked at the delivery drivers, the elderly, the commuters, and the traditions of our city of angels. These are the quirkily sublime; the fantastically normal; the heavenly ordinary events that happen every day, and we salute and marvel and celebrate them all.

The seven pieces were shot on the consecutive days of the week, and each has only about 10 seconds to capture a moment on the streets, and tell it in type, with a few letters and one font. The clips are simple, focused and to the point. The musical scores were completed by our partners at Madsound with the same idea in mind, keeping things simple with only a single rhythmic element and a single wind instrument.

Each day, for the next seven days, we will post one of the videos on our blog, which will then automatically spread out to Facebook, Twitter and Vimeo for everyone.

Font: Aaux Next Cond
Creative Director: Michael Paul Young
Art Director: Jackkrit Anantakul
Soundtrack: Madsound

2010.11.24

Our studio and our lives are in the city of Bangkok, known to the natives as Krung Thep (“city of angels”). Like most creative folks, we draw our inspiration and our passion in part from what we see around us every day, and so we thought it might be nice to take a break from serving up fonts in order to illustrate some of the most common (but understated) sightings in everyday life.

With Bangkok being such a massive and complex city, this idea could of course take years, or even a lifetime to fully explore. We chose to keep it simple, and in so doing, we took a quick look at seven different small happenings in Bangkok life. We looked at the delivery drivers, the elderly, the commuters, and the traditions of our city of angels. These are the quirkily sublime; the fantastically normal; the heavenly ordinary events that happen every day, and we salute and marvel and celebrate them all.

The seven pieces were shot on the consecutive days of the week, and each has only about 10 seconds to capture a moment on the streets, and tell it in type, with a few letters and one font. The clips are simple, focused and to the point. The musical scores were completed by our partners at Madsound with the same idea in mind, keeping things simple with only a single rhythmic element and a single wind instrument.

Each day, for the next seven days, we will post one of the videos on our blog, which will then automatically spread out to Facebook, Twitter and Vimeo for everyone.

Font: Le Havre
Creative Director: Michael Paul Young
Art Director: Jackkrit Anantakul
Soundtrack: Madsound

2010.11.23

Our studio and our lives are in the city of Bangkok, known to the natives as Krung Thep (“city of angels”). Like most creative folks, we draw our inspiration and our passion in part from what we see around us every day, and so we thought it might be nice to take a break from serving up fonts in order to illustrate some of the most common (but understated) sightings in everyday life.

With Bangkok being such a massive and complex city, this idea could of course take years, or even a lifetime to fully explore. We chose to keep it simple, and in so doing, we took a quick look at seven different small happenings in Bangkok life. We looked at the delivery drivers, the elderly, the commuters, and the traditions of our city of angels. These are the quirkily sublime; the fantastically normal; the heavenly ordinary events that happen every day, and we salute and marvel and celebrate them all.

The seven pieces were shot on the consecutive days of the week, and each has only about 10 seconds to capture a moment on the streets, and tell it in type, with a few letters and one font. The clips are simple, focused and to the point. The musical scores were completed by our partners at Madsound with the same idea in mind, keeping things simple with only a single rhythmic element and a single wind instrument.

Each day, for the next seven days, we will post one of the videos on our blog, which will then automatically spread out to Facebook, Twitter and Vimeo for everyone.

Font: Sofia
Creative Director: Michael Paul Young
Art Director: Jackkrit Anantakul
Soundtrack: Madsound

2010.11.22

Our studio and our lives are in the city of Bangkok, known to the natives as Krung Thep (“city of angels”). Like most creative folks, we draw our inspiration and our passion in part from what we see around us every day, and so we thought it might be nice to take a break from serving up fonts in order to illustrate some of the most common (but understated) sightings in everyday life.

With Bangkok being such a massive and complex city, this idea could of course take years, or even a lifetime to fully explore. We chose to keep it simple, and in so doing, we took a quick look at seven different small happenings in Bangkok life. We looked at the delivery drivers, the elderly, the commuters, and the traditions of our city of angels. These are the quirkily sublime; the fantastically normal; the heavenly ordinary events that happen every day, and we salute and marvel and celebrate them all.

The seven pieces were shot on the consecutive days of the week, and each has only about 10 seconds to capture a moment on the streets, and tell it in type, with a few letters and one font. The clips are simple, focused and to the point. The musical scores were completed by our partners at Madsound with the same idea in mind, keeping things simple with only a single rhythmic element and a single wind instrument.

Each day, for the next seven days, we will post one of the videos on our blog, which will then automatically spread out to Facebook, Twitter and Vimeo for everyone.

Font: YWFT Agostina
Creative Director: Michael Paul Young
Art Director: Jackkrit Anantakul
Soundtrack: Madsound

uandlc-back-issues

This has been making the type world rounds lately, U&lc has started posted some free PDF downloads of old back issues. They are not the best scans (did they scan these during a Christmas office party?) but they are free, available in high resolution, and did we mention free? Grab em while they are hot, and enjoy the type insanity.

Hi-Res Downloads:
Volume 1–1.pdf
Volume 1–2.pdf
Volume 1–3.pdf

swiss-desktops

We are not sure why we never thought of doing this, but who cares now because our friend Network Osaka has done it. N.Osaka is a fellow admirer of swiss design (who isn’t though, really) and created these wallpapers for everyone to download. The wallpapers contain some of the most popular designs by the likes of Müller-Brockmann, Crowell, Armin Hoffmann and a few other design legends all formatted for modern screen resolutions. So get over there and download those goodies!

2010.09.29

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It has been awhile since we blogged a site, this kind of happens when you have 4000 fonts in your ‘new products to post’ que. But the crew from Numero 10 emailed us the other day to let us know about their new portfolio, and we must say it is amazingly nice. Be sure to check out the A4+++ Réclames Peintes project for a beautiful approach to hand painted sign-artwork with modern brands like Smirnoff and Nescafe.

Buamai

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