No. 62
Top ten book covers of the ’00s. Slightly underwhelming.
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No. 61
Some of the best ads from the Ad Council in one easy-to-browse space. [Via Brandflakesforbreakfast]
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Nov.20.2009
No. 60
A real-life replica of The Simpsons house in Henderson, Nevada. [Via Design You Trust]
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Nov.20.2009
No. 59
Putting non-recyclable lids to good use: Art. [Via Design You Trust]
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Nov.20.2009
No. 58
Student project: Design the currency for a New York neighborhood. [Via HOW]
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Nov.19.2009
No. 57
Christoph Niemann fun with leaves.
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Nov.19.2009
No. 56
Hypnotic. A live clock made out of scroll bars. [Via SwissMiss]
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Nov.18.2009
No. 55
More than 100,000+ cans later, the Winners of the 2009 Canstruction are announced.
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Nov.18.2009
No. 54
Illustrator Jason Freeny continues his endlessly amusing “Anatomy of…” series with the Ginger Bread Man holiday cards. [Via NOTCOT]
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Nov.18.2009
No. 53
Theme park brochures and maps, some dating as far back as 1931. [Via Brandflakesforbreakfast]
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Nov.18.2009
No. 52
Notes from Michael Bierut’s The Lazy Designer’s Guide to Success (in seven handy steps). [Via SwissMiss]
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Nov.18.2009
No. 51
Clever t-shirt design for a personal trainer comes with a measuring system for Time:Sweat ratio.
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Nov.18.2009
No. 50
After 25 years Sayles Graphic Design closes up shop. This might be unexpected, but they are one of the firms I followed most closely as a young student and designer.
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Nov.17.2009
No. 49
Least expected subhead of the day: “The city’s Creative Director [Peter Saville] provides a Manchester first with some glorious wrapping paper.” [Via Bitique]
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Nov.17.2009
No. 48
Stop motion video, using around 3,000 photos, of the making of 35 letterpress, hand-bound books. [Via NOTCOT]
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Nov.16.2009
No. 47
For $45 your WordPress blog can look like Khoi Vinh’s Subtraction with the new Basic Maths theme.
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Nov.16.2009
No. 46
Minimlist posters of popular TV shows. [Via Nice Fucking Graphics]
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Nov.16.2009
No. 45
An amazing blog on the Photoshop’ing of movie posters and their source images. [Via Nice Fucking Graphics]
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Nov.16.2009
No. 44
A video on the design and branding by edenspiekermann for the TCHO chocolate brand.
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Nov.13.2009
No. 43
The Society of Design, a new member-based organization. Looks very promising. [Via HOW]
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Nov.13.2009
No. 42
Adorable Dutch postage stamps on the theme of “Let Children Learn.” Don’t miss the animation at the bottom of the post.
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Nov.13.2009
No. 41
Striking black and white print campaign for WWF, “We Save More than Pandas.”
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Nov.12.2009
No. 40
Tim Burton plays with the MoMA logo.
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Nov.12.2009
No. 39
Olympic Spirit, a stop motion animation, “made up of 338 individual paper collages,” for the International Olympic Committee.
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Nov.12.2009
No. 38
A Netflix customer is wallpapering her laundry room with iconic red flaps of its envelopes. [Via BuzzFeed]
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Nov.12.2009
No. 37
A Mona Lisa made out of computer motherboards and chips in Taiwan. [Via BuzzFeed]
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Nov.12.2009
No. 36
Wow. The Eisenhower Interstate System in the style of H.C. Beck’s London Underground Diagram. [Via Coudal]
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Nov.11.2009
No. 35
A Coca-Cola poster in Paris is printed on velcro, people willingly stick to it.
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Nov.11.2009
No. 34
WorkInProgress is a blog full of animated GIFs that show comic book pages coming to life from sketch to final rendering. [Via Drawn]
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Nov.11.2009
No. 33
The results of Veer’s Take-a-cool-picture-of-our-logo-made-out-of-something-cool contest.
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Nov.11.2009
No. 32
Typekit is now open for font business, allowing you to use a vast library of quality typefaces as HTML text. [Via Kottke]
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Nov.10.2009
No. 31
Ad for McDonald’s in Australia promoting its free Wi-Fi, or make that, free Wi-Fri. [Via brandflakesforbreakfast]
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Nov.10.2009
No. 30
Ken Carbone looks at crappy NFL helmet designs and offers a few suggestions. [Via HOW]
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Nov.10.2009
No. 29
Wonderful project by art director John Gall, redesigning all 21 of Nabokov’s book covers with a little help from his friends.
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Nov.10.2009
No. 28
A rebus, I think; hilarious, I’m sure: Franklin Gothic. [Via VIBE]
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Nov.09.2009
No. 27
The best designed magazine on the subject of meat: BEEF!.
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Nov.09.2009
No. 26
Grain Edit pulls together some lovely vintage travel posters.
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Nov.09.2009
No. 25
User Interface fail? Photoshop CS4 can’t pick a single “slider” design, they are all different. [Via SwissMiss]
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Nov.09.2009
No. 24
A Glorious Dawn feat Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking. “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
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Nov.08.2009
No. 23
Piano steps to improve public health. [Thanks to Jenny Lau]
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Nov.06.2009
No. 22
Leigh Walton collects other illustrators’ sketches of Tintin and his friends.
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Nov.06.2009
No. 21
Autografik, a Flickr Group to serve as “an archive for modernist graphic design applied to motor vehicles.” Yum. [Via Grain Edit]
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Nov.06.2009
No. 20
The Type Directos Club introduces Intro, “The First Annual Competition and Showcase of Title Design.”
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Nov.06.2009
No. 19
The social design event that keeps on giving, Designism returns for a 4th run to the Art Directors Club in New York.
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Nov.05.2009
No. 18
Amazing, black and white, flowy handwritten typography posters for Guimarães Jazz 2009 festival. [Via Nice Fucking Graphics]
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Nov.05.2009
No. 17
Exactly what I want for Christmas: Bread slippers! [Via Design You Trust]
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Nov.05.2009
No. 16
Want people to pay attention to your event’s sponsors? Put together a motion piece like this. Mesmerizing. [Via Motionographer]
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No. 15
A preview of McSweeney’s upcoming 380-page re-imagining of the newspaper, The San Francisco Panorama. [Via Kottke]
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Nov.05.2009
No. 14
8-bit inspired wedding invitation. [Via BuzzFeed]
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Nov.05.2009
No. 13
If you like Tom Waits and stop motion animation and lettering on body parts, you will love this moody video for “Come on up to the House.” [Via FontFeed]
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Nov.04.2009
No. 12
Funny: The Dodge Viper Symbol is Daffy Duck upside-down.
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Nov.04.2009
No. 11
Required reading (aided by easy to follow visuals): How to use an Apostrophe. [Via BuzzFeed]
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Nov.03.2009
No. 10
“Low Resolution” Halloween costume. [Via BuzzFeed]
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Nov.03.2009
No. 9
Nothing kills the mood like gassy paper.
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Nov.03.2009
No. 8
A compact explanation of type anti-aliasing and web browsers, including some mysteries like “13pt and 14pt Arial render with the same cap height but different x-heights.”
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Nov.02.2009
No. 7
The title of this project says it all: International Year of Astronomy 2009 Retro Poster Designs.
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Nov.02.2009
No. 6
Erik Spiekermann on his contribution to the development of the lowercase letter “a” and other musings about design at Thirty Conversations on Design. [Via FontFeed]
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Nov.02.2009
No. 5
Eric Gill’s Busy Day, a comic strip. It’s funny because it’s true. [Via Haik Avanian]
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No. 4
The latest 44 entries into the Chicago Design Archive have been posted for your enjoyment.
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No. 3
Such a wonderful idea by Jackson Fish Market. A Story Before Bed: “Anyone with a webcam and a web browser can choose a book from our library of licensed and digitized high quality children’s books, record audio and video of themselves reading that book, and share it with a special child in their lives. […] A Story Before Bed is for parents away on business, remote grandparents, split families, military parents stationed away from their children, and even parents just going out for the night.”
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No. 2
Flickr search results of London’s Museum of Brands, Packaging and Advertising. [Via The Dieline]
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No. 1
Don’t be dissuaded by our friend Jimm Lasser’s hairy chest and be sure to go through The Lasser Museum. Don’t miss the Obama Air Force Ones, they slam AND they print!
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Vol. 35, November 2009
Thank you for reading and contributing. Remember: Quip Responsibly.
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