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Martin Bircher has rigged a type case with 125 LED lights that strobe at different strengths to act as a news ticker.
10.27.2010
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UI Stencils provides web, iPad, and iPhone (shown) steel stencils for prototyping user interfaces.
10.27.2010
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Graffiti nostalgia: The Subway Art History project pays homage to the early days of New York graffiti with new pieces based on classics.
10.27.2010
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Quipsologies has all your “Designer” holiday gift-giving needs covered.
10.27.2010
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S. Neil Fujita, 1921 – 1910. Amazing mid-century designer and illustrator of album and book covers. Image from Bustbright’s (also) amazing Flickr account.
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A mash-up to end all mash-ups. Satire site The Poke imagines what would happen if Roger Hargreaves, author of the popular and iconic children book series Mr. Men teamed up with AMC to create Mad Men Mr. Men.
10.27.2010
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Master sign painter John Downer in action. The link is actually three years old, but the kick-assedness of it is timeless.
10.27.2010
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Wieden + Kennedy’s London office now features a sculpture by Ben Hughes made out of all the award trophies the agency has received in recent years.
10.27.2010
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Attention bibliophiles! Spain’s National Library has created an interactive version of the first edition of “Don Quixote” and placed it online. This video has Spanish titles, but the images speak for themselves: they’ve done a beautiful job.
10.26.2010
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