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Sachsenwald Blackletter →“This typeface was designed by Bertold Wolpe in Germany in the early 1930s and was originally named Bismarck Schrift…” |
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Morgan Press Wood Type Specimen →Morgan Press printers and typographers |
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Adrian Shaughnessy on his book “Graphic Design: A User’s Manual” →“This book offers students, novice designers and battle-toughened professionals alike an insider’s guide to the complexities of current graphic design practice and thinking. It contains all you need to know to survive and prosper in the complex, ever-shifting world of graphic design…” |
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Bon Graf Grid Paper →“Graphic Design studio Famous Visual Services present Bon Graf, a range of beautifully crafted grid layout pads printed on acid free 100gsm uncoated paper and made in Australia. In this our first release the collection consists of a web designer layout pad, a dot grid layout pad, a project briefing pad and an isometric grid layout pad.” |
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Titillium “Open Typographic Font” →“Titillium is born inside the Accademia di Belle Arti di Urbino as a didactic project Course Type design of the Master of Visual Design Campi Visivi…” |
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CNN en Español Gets a Tilde →Having done work at CNN and other Turner properties, this excellent new ID for CNN en Español jumped out for us. It’s close to home for those in Atlanta. |
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Jonathan Safran Foer’s Unmakeable Book →“Book printers said the award winning author’s design “could not be made.” Belgian publishing house Die Keure proved them wrong.” |
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The Book Work of David Pearson →Amazing work. More here… |
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Vintage Food Packaging →Vintage Food Packaging at the dieline |
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Flowers + Newsprint, Beautiful →“Fresh Flowers is a collection of flowers, it’s a different newspaper, it’s a way of having flowers on your table everyday.” |
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Le Buro ID by Inventaire →Nice branding by Inventaire for Le Buro |
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Supergraphics from Unit Editions →Supergraphics just arrive at my desk. Unit Editions has a knack for superlative documentation of creative objects… |
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Businesspeople Need to Become Designers →“Roger Martin, Dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, tells us how businesspeople need to become designers–designing user experiences and business models–to create something new and fantastic, and not just analyze the past.” |
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The Story Behind Angry Paul Rand →“Over three months in the Summer of 2010, in addition to my normal Twitter account @mgoldst, I had a Twitter account by the name of @AngryPaulRand. Like every designer I have ever met, I had some things I had always wanted to say, and using Paul Rand as a foil seemed OK to me—he was dead, after all, and had a reputation as a brilliant but tough personality. It also seemed like a fun thing to do while waiting for Graduate School to start. I created the account, tossed out a few funny, pointed tweets, and two months later I had almost 15,000 followers. 15,000 followers on Twitter put this account in the 99.87% percentile in terms of Twitter infamy.…” |
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Copenhagen Wall Calendar by Urbncal →“urbnCal 2011 Copenhagen has a graphic look with black and white photographs and red colour (pms 206) in twelve different shades. The calendar is photographed in different areas of Copenhagen, one area per month, starting from the center and out in a clockwise motion.” |
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Gary Anderson, Designer of ♻ →“It has been called one of America’s “most important design icons,” it is one of the most recognizable graphic symbols in the world and has helped to encourage global recycling. In some countries, such as the UK, the symbol carries such implicit meaning that it requires government permission to be used. Although the symbol is the most widely known of his accomplishments, Anderson has also made important contributions in the areas of urban planning and urban development.” |
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Fill your days with Flowers… Shitloads →The art of Boudicca Collins |
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Mid-Century Album Covers →Aqua Velvet’s record album set on Flickr |
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TypArchive →“Created by Typographer and Designer RD Granados in April 2009, TypArchive is an image collection focused on hand painted lettering. The goal was to build a site where others in the design community could contribute and use as a source of inspiration for new typeface designs.” |
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New Studio for Form Us With Love →“With the new studio at Sankt Eriksgatan 106, FUWL intends to create a vibrant space for design in Stockholm. FUWL plans for exhibitions, lectures and pop-up shop.” |
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