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No. 74

Maira Kalman: Hallelujah. The angels are singing on this glorious day. [Thanks to Dinah Fried]

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Jan.30.2009
No. 73

Nice, and unexpected, visual play on these wine labels for Laughing Stocks Vineyards.

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Jan.30.2009
No. 72

The Letterpress shop, Studio on Fire, has a great blog with some excellent insight into the world of modern-day letterpress printing. Plus, if you like close-up shots of letterpress stuff, you’ll drool.

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Jan.30.2009
No. 71

A very minimalist and contemporary Mona Lisa.

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Jan.30.2009
No. 70

Thirst, the firm or Rick Valicenti, now broadcasting from Chicago, has an updated site with new work.

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Jan.30.2009
No. 69

Tired of drawing stuff with your mouse or Wacom tablet? Try with your voice using Ze Frank’s voice_draw online tool. [Via Brandflakesforbreakfast]

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Jan.29.2009
No. 68

Font haikus. [Via SwissMiss]

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Jan.29.2009
No. 67

A little bit of animated typography set to a retro feel for the Starbucks Grassroots Movement. Nothing groundbreaking, just pretty enjoyable.

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Jan.29.2009
No. 66

While you decided whether or not to buy the Barney Bubbles book you can follow the author’s blog for some scrumptious looks at Bubbles’s work. [Via Design Observer]

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Jan.29.2009
No. 65

The Ontario College of Art and Design has figured out the mathematical equation for creativity in advertising.

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Jan.28.2009
No. 64

The 85 notebooks of Michael Bierut.

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Jan.28.2009
No. 63

If you have $6,500 to spend this year I would highly recommend this amazing opportunity from the School of Visual Arts MFA program, Masters Workshop: Design History, Theory and Practice in Rome and Venice. The first sentence of the description should be enough enticement: “Spend two weeks studying visual communication — especially typography — in Venice and Rome, the birthplace of Western typographic tradition.”

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Jan.28.2009
No. 62

Not sure who or what “NAIL” is, but here are more than 15 cool ways of rendering it with real-life stuff.

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Jan.28.2009
No. 61

I’m a Designer and… I’m not sure what the exact point of this web site is or why it’s geared to designers, but whatevs. [Via IdeaFixa]

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Jan.27.2009
No. 60

Pretty weird mash-up of ideas: The 69 Sexiest Rap Song Titles, some of them illustrated with the restroom man/woman icons. NSFW, I think, but depends on your company’s policy on stick figure sex Language is definitely NSFW. [Via Design You Trust]

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Jan.27.2009
No. 59

Yum… the first italic typeface ever, by Francesco Griffo da Bologna circa 1500.

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Jan.27.2009
No. 58

The ubiquitous man and woman restroom icons come to real life in The Pedestrian Project. [Via Design You Trust]

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Jan.26.2009
No. 57

Brian Collins joins the blogging world, giving us insight into his own world of branding, storytelling and other adventures.

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Jan.25.2009
No. 56

It’s sad to see the economy bring down one of the most influential design firms of our time. Creative Review reports on Ian Anderson closing The Designers Republic.

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Jan.25.2009
No. 55

Flickrdesign “catalogs interesting and inspiring graphic design pieces posted to flickr.” Flickr has increasingly become a great source of graphic design material. [Via Evasee]

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Jan.25.2009
No. 54

Because it has been a long week, the latest TV ad for Cadbury is just what the doctor ordered: Silly, distracting, awesome.

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Jan.23.2009
No. 53

The New York Times breaks story on Butt Hole Road, and other unsavory British cartographic distinctions…then sells more ad space and saves newspaper? [via D.O.]

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Jan.23.2009
No. 52

The true global currency: The Pound-Yuan-Euro-Dolar bill, spliced together. [Via Evasee]

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Jan.23.2009
No. 51

Kenneth Cole bought some billboard space on the west side of New York to thank the pilots and crew of US Airways flight 1549.

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Jan.22.2009
No. 50

A lapel pin with tiny plastic bags that wrap around a fashionable steel ring that acts as a mini garbage can. Perfect for navel fuzz. Um, as one example, just saying.

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Jan.22.2009
No. 49

Pentagram partner Harry Pearce’s Typographic Conundrums. Figure out all 108 of them.

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Jan.22.2009
No. 48

A Flickr set showing off a rare copy of a Neue Haas Grotesk — aka Helvetica before it was called as such — type specimen. [Via AisleOne]

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Jan.21.2009
No. 47

Veer introduces the FPO T-shirt, making a great idea just waiting to happen, happen.

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Jan.21.2009
No. 46

Wieden+Kennedy land the Levi’s account, celebrate with blue-colored champagne and ogle at the oldest known pair of jeans dating back to 1879 and valued at $130,000.

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Jan.21.2009
No. 45

Quirky new blog, To Do: post-it notes left to their fate in public places. [Via NotCot]

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Jan.21.2009
No. 44

A map of the city of Leyden in the Netherlands rendered in De Stijl, rocking the Piet Mondrian look.

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Jan.21.2009
No. 43

An illustrated view of the year 2000 according to France in 1910. [Via Dark Roasted Blend]

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Jan.20.2009
No. 42

The “cousin” flowchart. Neither funny nor clever nor visually cool, just something to quickly grasp how far you are from your third cousin twice removed. [Via Dark Roasted Blend]

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Jan.20.2009
No. 41

I didn’t know razor blade boxes were so vitagely cool: one, two and three galleries. [Thanks to David Weinberger for the links]

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Jan.19.2009
No. 40

Aubrey “Po” Powell, one third of legendary album cover designers Hipgnosis, talks about the making of their new book. [Via House Industries]

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Jan.19.2009
No. 39

Clever double entendre visual combining the Obama logo and a “No More Bush” tagline. Might make you squirm a little. [Via Design You Trust]

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Jan.19.2009
No. 38

Today on Design Matters: Neville Brody.

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Jan.16.2009
No. 37

Shepard Fairey on The Colbert Report. [Via Design Observer]

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Jan.16.2009
No. 36

Related in spirit to No. 33 below, this one could be titled If movie posters were simpler and kick ass. [Via Veer]

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Jan.15.2009
No. 35

Traditional porcelain vases emblazoned with rock band logos. [Via Design You Trust]

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Jan.15.2009
No. 34

Financial crisis getting to you? Well, just squeeze the banker.

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Jan.15.2009
No. 33

If movie posters were honest you would know that Sex and the City is really just 2 Hours of Whiny White Women. [Via Brandflakesforbreakfast]

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Jan.14.2009
No. 32

The 51 logos of the states of the United States. [Via Brandflakesforbreakfast]

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Jan.14.2009
No. 31

The top ten sellers of 2008 on MyFonts. Wow, “Floralissimo” is number three? Wow.

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Jan.14.2009
No. 30

Excellent spot for Durex condoms by the talented folks at Superfad. WARNING: NSFW if your workplace objects to balloon animal sex; and must have sound too. [Via Motionographer]

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Jan.14.2009
No. 29

SocialDesignSite is “an exhibition for exemplary social design projects from a variety of fields.” What a great resource and, as corny as it may sound, inspiration.

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Jan.14.2009
No. 28

Typographic Rhythm: “The tool picks between 140 generated font weights depending on your typing speed.”

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Jan.13.2009
No. 27

SanDisk has introduced a new, lifesaving apparatus: Backup USB Flash Drives with integrated software. Here is an interview with the designer at frog who did their design.

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Jan.13.2009
No. 26

For those that ever complained Massimo Vignelli’s New York City subway was hard to follow, behold the ASCII version. [Via SwissMiss]

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Jan.13.2009
No. 25

Always worth the wait: The 2008 Feltron Annual Report is here. [Via Kottke]

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Jan.13.2009
No. 24

Not your typical limited edition print: Limited edition print of 60 noses drawn from arrest photos by former New York forensic artist Shawn Feeney.

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Jan.13.2009
No. 23

Thomas Forsyth’s Drawing Tops, “A spinning-top, that uses a pen as the spindle.” Simple and beautiful. [Via It’s Nice That]

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Jan.12.2009
No. 22

This is like some sort of modern-day torture: Pretty Loaded is a web site that showcases Flash preloaders. It’s like 1999 all over again. And again. [Via SwissMiss]

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Jan.12.2009
No. 21

Inside Louise Fili’s studio. With a collection of awesome stuff like that no wonder her stuff is awesome. [Via HOW]

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Jan.12.2009
No. 20

I just had to mock up a t-shirt design and Googling for “blank t-shirt” found this great set of photos by Flickr user iDanSimpson with a bunch of shots of a dude wearing a blank t-shirt, and it has a nice Creative Commons Attribution/Non-Commercial license for all your comping needs.

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Jan.12.2009
No. 19

From Ellis Island to Orchard Street with Victoria Confino is an online game that transports players back to 1916 to experience life as a new immigrant in New York City.

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Jan.11.2009
No. 18

Seven opening film titles that use a road as the car advances.

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Jan.11.2009
No. 17

Great insight by Jon Hicks on the development of over 280 icons for Linotype’s FontExplorer application. [Via Drawn]

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Jan.11.2009
No. 16

In case you (as I) missed it: The Objectified trailer from Gary Hustwit.

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Jan.11.2009
No. 15

Grid Designer is a nifty web site that allows you to create a grid through a WYSIWYG interface and then export the CSS and HTML code. [Via ISO50]

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Jan.11.2009
No. 14

Design Matters with Debbie Millman Resumes today (yay!) with guest Jessica Helfand.

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Jan.09.2009
No. 13

Awesome poster of the new kind of (destructive) fauna you can find in the world’s rainforests. [Via Brandflakesforbreakfast]

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Jan.09.2009
No. 12

A sampling of the typographic-driven short movies shown at last year’s Typophile Film Fest 4.

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Jan.09.2009
No. 11

“Thank God you’re a Man,” is a print campaign for Goldstar Beer that flowcharts the ease of being a man (as opposed to, you know, a woman) and drinking beer. I have to say, this walks a very fine line between good and bad taste.

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Jan.09.2009
No. 10

“Catch of the Day,” a clever but disheartening guerrilla campaign about ocean and beach pollution, with actual, found garbage packaged as food and placed in farmer markets. [Via Nice Fucking Graphics]

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Jan.09.2009
No. 9

“The Modern Design Deck,” a handsome painting of an A – Z of designer chairs. [Via Monoscope]

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Jan.09.2009
No. 8

A short (animated video) history of marketing.

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Jan.09.2009
No. 7

The Book Cover Archive. The greatest web site ever that archives book covers. [Via Kottke]

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Jan.09.2009
No. 6

Shepard Fairey creates the latest “Want It” campaign for Saks Fifth Avenue. [Via conversation with Michael Bierut]

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Jan.08.2009
No. 5

The best and worst posters of 2008, selected by Defamer. [Via Design Observer]

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Jan.08.2009
No. 4

Pentagram, Groop, Razorfish and Frog redesign the Republicans.

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Jan.01.2009
No. 3

The Far Side, replicated in photographs. [Via Drawn]

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Dec.31.2008
No. 2

Painting and sketching on the iPhone.

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Dec.31.2008
No. 1

Not quite a Quip, just a note that we are celebrating two years of Quipping this January. Thanks to everyone that has contributed.

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Dec.31.2008
Vol. 25, January 2009

Thank you for reading and contributing. Remember: Quip Responsibly.
Past Volumes are accessible through the archives.

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Dec.31.2008
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