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by diane zerr
Design Philadelphia, a city-wide initiative featuring 450+ designers kicks off on October 7. Art, craft, and design are highlighted over ten days through talks, symposiums, exhibitions, and street happenings.
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Brand New Classroom / Providing a space for critique and opinions on student identity work.
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Flaunt: Designing effective, compelling and memorable portfolios of creative work / 2010, self-published.
Graphic Design, Referenced: A Visual Guide to the Language, Applications, and History of Graphic Design / 2009, Rockport.
Women of Design: Influence and Inspiration from the Original Trailblazers to the New Groundbreakers / 2008, HOW Books.
The Word It Book: Speak Up Presents a Gallery of Interpreted Words / 2007, HOW Books.
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2010 Brand New Conference / A one-day event on the development of corporate and brand identity projects by some of today’s most active and influential practitioners from around the world.
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by plamen
Evolution of Type, Exhibits 1-5: Letters as organisms and typefaces as species.
“Of all the achievements of the human mind, the birth of the alphabet is the most momentous. Letters, like men, have now an ancestry, and the ancestry of words, as of men, is often a very noble possession, making them capable of great things.”
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by joe marianek
Unimark’s Dot Zero magazine is still surprisingly fresh. Don’t miss Michael Bierut’s interview with Massimo Vignelli, who designed and directed all five issues from 1966-1968.
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by armin
Good Fucking Design Advice is a steady stream of design advice made even more compelling by inserting the word “fuck.” Language obviously NSFW.
09.15.2010
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by armin
A look at James Patrick Gibson’s New Type York project which chronicles the typography of New York.
09.15.2010
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by jason dean
A brilliant site devoted to teaching the basics of typography to the layman. Or for designers, a way to teach our loved ones how not to annoy us with double spaces, giant type and dumb quotes.
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by josh berta
Design firm Dentsu London made this incredible video using stop-motion techniques and long exposures of 3-dimensional objects as they’re built slice by virtual slice on an iPad display.
Something tells me Absolut Vodka will be copying this idea for their next commercial.
09.15.2010
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by paul soulellis
A massive archive of 19th century Japanese woodblock prints from University of California, San Francisco — all on health-related themes. Incredibly rich information design is buried in here, including map-like depictions of ailments and different stages of life conditions projected onto the body.
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