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Wanted: 25 Graphic Designers →We need 25 contract/freelance designers for a short project with Agfa. |
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Javier Mariscal’s Advice for Young Designers →Good advice for young designers from Javier Mariscal. “… make what you really want to do …” |
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Doyald Young, Logotype Designer, 1926–2011 →A tribute to the late Doyald Young. |
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My New Favorite Maps →These typographic maps are the real deal. Although typographic maps are not a new idea, few are created manually. Even fewer possess the degree of quality seen here. |
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All the Buildings in New York →James Gulliver Hancock attempts to draw all of the buildings in New York City. |
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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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Monocle Alpino, Anti-iPad Device →Monocle’s Alpino newspaper may be called an experiment, but it’s a successful extension to the Monocle brand—a great variation on a theme. |
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Starbucks’ Smart Rebrand →Starbucks has put their mermaid on overtime. |
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Eastern European Matchbox Labels →Mid-century mass production printing on cardboard has a unique look that’s emulated quite a bit these days. |
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Clipper Ship Cards →These vintage clipper cards were advertisements for shipping voyages, usually from a port on the east coast (New York, Boston) to the west coast (San Francisco). They were distributed by ship dispatchers in the 1800s. |
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Steven Millington, aka Lord Dunsby →Whimsical and retro illustrations from Lord Dunsby. |
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Labels from the 19th and 20th Centuries →Packaging and labels from the 18 and 1900s, for everything from mucilage to vinagre balsamique. |
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Type Desk Welcomes Yoko Sakao Ohama →Yoko joins Type Desk to report from New York on design and logical process. Logical as apposed to illogical. Having worked with Yoko, I guarantee it’s a privilege to experience Yoko’s “logical process.” Welcome aboard Yoko! |
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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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The WSJ Hedcuts by Randy Glass →Everyone has seen his work. Master stippler Randy Glass has created hundreds of these hedcut style illustrations for the Wall Street Journal. |
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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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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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