No. 31
Oh my, I feel a little weak in the knees after seeing the new Penguin collection of Ian Fleming's James Bond series. Make sure you click on the image of the spines towards the bottom of the page; sexy. [Via HOW]
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May.12.2008
No. 30
Windows Vista + Volkswagen logo = Remixed logos! [Via Dark Roasted Blend]
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May.12.2008
No. 29
Pretty funny. Letters to Loveliza: Daily Design Questions Answered Firmly. [Via I Love Typography]
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May.12.2008
No. 28
In case you missed this: Brand Tags, a site that gathers quick impressions about what a brand means. Sounds better than a focus group to me.
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May.12.2008
No. 27
Creative Time Presents Playing the Building: An Installation by David Byrne at The Battery Maritime Building.
"...a sound installation in which the infrastructure, the physical plant of the building, is converted into a giant musical instrument."
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May.11.2008
No. 26
Election Campaign Soundtrack For just 39.97 you can have your own royalty-free background track. "Portray strength, confidence, dependability and pride with this brilliant collage of orchestral flourishes and military rhythms. The ideal music track for news updates and global events."
Other deal closing hits such as Feature Presentation, Friday Feeling and Nasdaq are available at MusicBakery.com.
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May.10.2008
No. 24
"Good Design is all about making other designers feel like idiots because that idea wasn't theirs." That's one way of looking at it. [Via ffffound]
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May.10.2008
No. 24
Really Good Images. Forgotten stock photos and 20th century flotsam.
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May.09.2008
No. 23
Print Liberation: The Screen Printing Primer looks like a great book. But even greater is the trailer promoting it. [Via Drawn]
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May.09.2008
No. 22
Very engaging, interactive site about typefaces: typeSQL. [Via SwissMiss]
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May.09.2008
No. 21
The winners of the 2008 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards have been released. Congratulations to Scott Stowell and Michael Bierut. Pats on the back to all the finalists.
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May.08.2008
No. 20
These are delightfully creepy: A set of critters built out of reading glasses for a new series of eyeglasses by Swedish Oscar Magnusson Spectacles. Motionographer has a hi-res Quicktime as well.
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May.08.2008
No. 19
The ultimate guide to Moleskine. [Via Brandflakesforbreakfast]
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May.08.2008
No. 18
The second edition of I Love Typography's über popular 15 Great Examples of Web Typography. Quipsologies was included in the first edition, and we are happy to report that UnderConsideration was bestowed the honor this time around.
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May.07.2008
No. 17
The African Activist Archive Project, "which seeks to preserve for history the record of activities of U.S. organizations and individuals that supported African struggles for freedom […]" has a great collection of buttons and posters revolving around this issue.
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May.07.2008
No. 16
TXTNASHUN (read "Text Nation") is a project by the students of the Art Institute of Houston that questions the preponderance of text messaging language, "We illustrated this by taking monumental speeches and translating them using today's common shorthand and colloquial Internet speech". See all images here, or try to look at them in a MySpace context. Like, OMG.
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May.06.2008
No. 15
Neither Hitler nor Stalin, tanks or bomber planes take as many lives as malaria, as depicted in these mosquito infested print ads (more ads in the series on the right column).
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May.06.2008
No. 14
This is not too current, but still cool: Video of Drew Hodges, founder and creative director of SpotCo (who do all the cool posters for Broadway shows), talking about the posters they presented for the 2006 production of Lestat.
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May.06.2008
No. 13
The rockin' — how can anything not rock with Black Sabbath's Iron Man? — opening titles to Iron Man by Prologue Films' Danny Yount. [Via Motionographer]
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May.06.2008
No. 12
Video on how the CBS eye logo came to be, with guest appearance by Lou Dorfsman.
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May.06.2008
No. 11
A hefty list of information graphics resources at newish blog Design Label. [Via ffffound]
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May.06.2008
No. 10
100 food products photographically compared between what's yummily shown on the package and what you actually get. [Via VIBE]
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May.05.2008
No. 9
Videos of the Walker Art Center's Insights Lecture Series have all been gathered in one place for your viewing pleasure. Includes Marian Bantjes, Ed Fella, Project Projects and more.
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May.05.2008
No. 8
The typography comes alive (sort of) in the latest "Priceless" tv campaign from Mastercard. (If it's not playing upfront, select "Title Safe?" from the ad menu).
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May.05.2008
No. 7
Chicago-based design firm, Firebelly, is hosting its first design camp and is looking for young applicants: "Two weeks of intensive collaboration with an awesome nonprofit client to address a social justice issue, strategize + design the solution and see it all the way through to print." This is a great cause, hosted by a great, caring firm.
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May.05.2008
No. 6
Gum Art: Michel Delgado takes it from the Sidewalk to the Canvas.
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May.04.2008
No. 5
What's Flower Power for the computer? This very unique 'computer' could come to a desk near you. [Brought to you by Dell computers.]
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May.03.2008
No. 4
A good typographic overview of some recent movie posters over at the FontShop blog.
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May.02.2008
No. 3
Self-promotion knick-knack for a proofreader, nice eraser.
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May.02.2008
No. 2
SmashLab brings you A Primer in Social Media. A great read if all you can muster is "that thing kids do these days" when asked what social media means.
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May.01.2008
No. 1
26 hand-drawn web sites. [Via Coudal]
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May.01.2008
Vol. 17, May 2008
Thank you for reading and contributing. Remember: Quip Responsibly.
Past Volumes are accessible through the archives.
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May.01.2008
Vol.17May 2008
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