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Wanted: 25 Graphic Designers →We need 25 contract/freelance designers for a short project with Agfa. |
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The Blue Lady’s New Look →From JKR, the Camden based packaging design agency, comes an intriguing collection of marketing and branding quips titled “The Blue Lady’s New Look and Other Curiosities: Posts from the Crossroads of Design and Marketing.” |
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Doyald Young, Logotype Designer, 1926–2011 →A tribute to the late Doyald Young. |
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Vitsœ’s Campaign Against Planned Obsolescence →‘Outside there is what Dieter Rams would call an “impenetrable confusion of forms, colours and noises.” Most people call this a sale.’ |
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The Rio Olympics Logo: Spec Work? →The folks of Tátil Design, located in Rio de Janeiro, won a competition among 139 other agencies to design the Rio Olympics Logo. |
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Starbucks’ Smart Rebrand →Starbucks has put their mermaid on overtime. |
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Brand for Flint Hair Salon by Bibliothèque →“The design solution expresses the Flint ideology of craftsmanship and modernity. Stone-age cutting tools made from Flint (a material found in abundance in the Norfolk area) illustrate this identity for a boutique hair-salon based in Norwich.” |
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BMW’s Retinal Branding →BMW flash projecting their logo into the eyes of an unwitting audience. |
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Frank Aloi for The Little Veggie Patch Co. →“The Little Veggie Patch Company based in Melbourne (Australia), is a business that specializes in the design, installation and maintenance of chemical-free vegetable gardens. As much as it is their business, it is their passion to see more people living a greener lifestyle and having fun, growing their own vegetables.” Check out more of Frank […] |
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Erik Spiekermann on Deutsche Welle TV →On the heels of having won the Federal German Design Prize 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award from the German Design Council, Erik Spiekermann is interviewed by Deutsche Welle TV. |
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René Gruau’s work for Dior →“Since founding her Munich-based graphic arts gallery, Bartsch & Chariau, in 1980, Joëlle Chariau has been an advocate of René Gruau, writes Liz Farrelly. Across the river from the Design Museum’s Drawing Fashion exhibition (where Chariau discussed fashion illustration), the Embankment Galleries at Somerset House are staging Dior Illustrated: René Gruau and the Line of Beauty. The show explores his life-long collaboration with first the man, Christian Dior, and then the brands, House of Dior and Christian Dior Parfums.” |
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Geometric ID for Whole Education by Wire →Nice ID work by Wire Design. |
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Bodoni Monogrammed Prada Sunglasses →Details at Selectism |
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Bag from the past, but still good—the Airline Bag Lounge →This is a little old, but it’s still good: the Airline Bag Lounge brought to you by Troyland. |
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Bygone Airline IDs →Vintage Airline Logos at Flickr |
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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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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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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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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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