Johnny Mei

Graphic Designer
Bay Area & Chicago

Internet Found: Design & Inspiration


Tivoli Audio originated in Boston in 2000 with just one radio and the design quickly became a classic.

5.17.2024


The strange faces and minimal scenes in Japanese illustrator Noritake’s work are utterly charming. Working mainly in monochrome with occasional flashes of blue or peach, the work manages to distil emotions and actions into beautifully crafted one-liners.

5.14.2024


Critics at the time were not pleased. Assessing the Swiss-born photographer’s grainy, cock-eyed, prowling pictures of tattered flags and ghostly glowing jukeboxes, festering racial injustices and the sad lineup of lost souls who had seen their tethers to the American Dream unceremoniously cut, ...

Photo: Robert Frank
5.9.2024


Reina Takahashi is an independent paper artist that works with art directors and creative directors to create images for publications, social channels, photo shoot props, and stop-motion animations.

5.5.2024


The astrology budgeting blog that deciphers the mystery of finance through the stars, artificial intelligence, and simple truth.

5.2.2024


Everything you need to know about the world of design, from furniture to fashion and craft to architecture. Expect fresh stories, new finds and designers and all the latest news from the world’s most exciting studios.

4.29.2024


Dorothea Hofmann tells the story of Swiss graphic design from a new perspective. Starting with a deliberate focus on Basel, she paints a differentiated picture of this national graphic design movement.

Photo: Draw Down
4.29.2024


Inga is a bookshop in Chicago with a focus on self-published and independently distributed artists’ books on art, design, film, theory, and more.

4.28.2024


Yasuto Sasada’s colorful detailed paintings created by using 0.3mm pens.

4.25.2024


Notabag founder, Adnan Alicusic, found himself narrowly avoiding an accident on his bicycle, carrying groceries in traffic. It made him wish he had brought his backpack instead of struggling with the plastic sliding along his handlebars. The cogs began turning in his head, and he was inspired to create the original tote bag-backpack hybrid.

4.24.2024


The Chicago Graphic Design Club is “a community dedicated to building a positive culture within the theory, craft, and practice of graphic design.” Highly recommend joining their Discord channel.

4.23.2024


Inside an ordinary building on an ordinary street in Hong Kong is one of the world’s most valuable record collections.

4.22.2024


Coverjunkie is a “celebration of creative covers and their ace designers.”

4.22.2024


Visual identity update by Pono Design and Scratch Collective.

4.22.2024


Based in Taipei, Wang Zhihong crafts a “new design style that blends classicism and modernism.”

4.21.2024


Tune into forests from around the world.

via: swissmiss
4.19.2024


Crowd-sourced virtual archive of graphic design history.

via: DJ
4.19.2024


The winning entries of the 2024 World Press Photo Contest.

Photo: Lee-Ann Olwage for GEO
4.18.2024


Everything you ever wanted to know about the origins of Dutch design.

via: Design Observer
4.18.2024


Vintage-style tees inspired by music, film, artwork, logos, and typography.

4.17.2024


Live radio stations from around the world.

4.17.2024


POSUTĀ POSTER: Contemporary Poster Designs from Japan

4.15.2024


Brand identity by Pact Studio. Hydrosat focuses on providing geospatial intelligence for food security, public safety, and the ennvironment.

4.12.2024


Running since 1938, what the ultimate study on happiness reveals.

4.11.2024


Electronic music by Macroblank.

4.10.2024


TP–7 is built to record sound, music, interviews, and important ideas with zero friction in the highest possible quality.

4.9.2024


The world’s first knock-type mechanical pencil was released by Pentel in the 1960s, and in 1971 they developed an item with the concept of “a mechanical pencil used in the same way as a fountain pen.” CDT’s version inherits the original design. One of my favorite mechanical pencils to use.

4.8.2024


Non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, and more.

3.27.2024


Osamu Tezuka’s famous manga hero, Astro Boy, featured as a skater.

via: Vinyl Pulse
3.26.2024