Pitch Design Union

The irony of writing in a blog about a blog worried me for a moment until I realized the paradoxical nature of that statement remains self promotional and adventageous at worst. In any case what I will be talking about today is Pitch Design Union's fantastic, original, clever, adjectative and humorous blogsite. I first came across Pitch Design when it was hyped in Print Magazine's August 14th Issue which called it a "wonderful catch-all design and imagery blog" which isnt far from the truth.

Pitch has some of the finest line art renditions on the net. It is sleek, the colors are masterfully chosen as stark constrasts and offshade versions of one another. The whole site is built to have an old-world feel of victorian wallpaper and little knickknacks, subtle occurences that as a designer, I admit I love. In particular, the fonts used on the page are a curious blend of a highly stylized italic serif and a strong typewriter font, albeit one that appears less humanistic and more showy, lending the whole page a 70s vibe that is replicated on the computer.

Although I am not interested in a number of the articles written by her, and cant always agree with her tastes, she has a charm about her website that cant be captured in a few hundred words. Her site has wit, wisdom, movement and grace, from the forms of interaction on the site, to the way the page loads and text is spaced. Even her writings act as a form of artistic achievement themselves, often poetic and full of self-referencial humor which is brilliant by any design perspective. My only fault with her page might be in the navigation of the blog pages, which should be readily accessible at both top and bottom of the page to allow for instant access to her links to images. Altogether, I would rate this blog an eight of ten if I had a rating system for art, but I dont, so you'll just have to see for yourself.