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No. 94

Seymour Chwast’s new obsessive monograph.

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May.29.2009
No. 93

Kleenex’s summer special edition boxes come in orange, watermelon and lime options.

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May.29.2009
No. 92

In other stop motion video news: Check out this hypnotic opener (and its making-of) for the Creativity and Technology conference.

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May.29.2009
No. 91

A conversation with Frank Gehry on Charlie Rose.

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May.29.2009
No. 90

A remarkably jovial stop motion animation done in 1939 by Chrysler for the World’s Fair. [Via Dark Roasted Blend]

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May.28.2009
No. 89

Tired of clients haggling you with their limited budgets? Send them to this YouTube video. [Via HOW]

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May.28.2009
No. 88

Nice poster by Draplin, throwing “Pretty Much Everything up to May 27th, 2009.” That’s a lot of vectors for one poster.

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May.27.2009
No. 87

UniWatch takes a look at the uniforms and logos of the Women’s Professional Basketball League, which played from 1978 to 1981. Check out the logo for the Chicago Hustle!

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May.27.2009
No. 86

Pixar’s The Incredibles is old news, but a site showcasing all the great furniture within the movie is pretty fresh. [Via SwissMiss]

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May.27.2009
No. 85

New York-based designer Cardon Webb has taken matters into his own hands by taking ugly flyers posted around his neighborhood, redesigning them and reposting them in their original location. [Via HOW]

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May.26.2009
No. 84

Three cases of author and book cover designer relationships. [Via Design Observer]

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May.26.2009
No. 83

“The Executive,” a rug made out of the leftovers from the production of men’s neckties. [Via OZOlife]

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May.25.2009
No. 82

Latest typographic trend: Floral Typography.

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May.24.2009
No. 81

If you can handle another kooky alphabet: The hook alphabet.

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May.24.2009
No. 80

The Web Museum of Wood Type & Ornaments. [Via AisleOne]

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May.24.2009
No. 79

Some people seem to be upset about the change of Chipotle’s ad campaign that they have started their own advertising retaliation. [Via Brandflakesforbreakfast]

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May.24.2009
No. 78

MagCulture on the redesign of Newsweek by Number 17.

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May.24.2009
No. 77

A Flickr set of Nonsense Info Graphics. That’s some beautiful nonsense. [Via Grain Edit]

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May.24.2009
No. 76

The jock strap alphabet. [Via Brandflakesforbreakfast]

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May.22.2009
No. 75

A new design conference descends on Dublin, Ireland.

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May.22.2009
No. 74

Get your very own 15-inch-tall, crocheted letter pillow, available in serif. Maybe she could start mastering sans serif, slab serif and italics to expand her Etsy business. [Via SwissMiss]

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May.22.2009
No. 73

Does Malcolm Gladwell’s “10,000 hour rule” in Outliers apply to graphic designers?

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May.22.2009
No. 72

Smashing Magazine presents a few alternatives to business cards.

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May.20.2009
No. 71

Elegant TV spot for US Cellular featuring melted crayons played backwards. [Via Motionographer]

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May.20.2009
No. 70

An alphabet made from the furniture at Houston based High Fashion Home, a home furnishings store. [Via SwissMiss]

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May.19.2009
No. 69

The remarkable Project M is coming to Winterhouse this summer.

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May.19.2009
No. 68

The New York Photo Festival 2009 Winners. Don’t miss Justin James King’s series, And Still We Gather With Infinite Momentum.

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May.19.2009
No. 67

Juicy metal type for the title of the new Sherlock Holmes. Check the HD trailer here.

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May.19.2009
No. 66

Salvation Army’s “This Campaign Cost Nothing” advertising campaign.

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May.19.2009
No. 65

Who needs a business card when all you need is a rubber stamp and the world’s scraps? [Via Direct Daily]

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May.18.2009
No. 64

I’m a sucker for random trivia, so I was immediately drawn to fact unchecked. Rubber cement is neither rubber, nor cement; discuss. [Via SwissMiss]

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May.18.2009
No. 63

Low resolution Google images of the most famous and valuable jewels in the world translated into pixelated leather. [Via Design You Trust]

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May.18.2009
No. 62

[Link Corrected] Draplin presents 18 ideas for graphics for his new van.

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May.15.2009
No. 61

Another one of those cool long-shot cause-effect videos (a la The Way Things Work) that takes place inside some sort of print production room. [Via TolleBlog]

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May.15.2009
No. 60

Numbers, “A Silent Auction to Benefit the TDC Scholarship Fund.” With special commissions from James Victore, Strange Attractors, Deb Bishop and Matteo Bologna, among others. [Via HOW]

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May.15.2009
No. 59

Can’t believe it’s been four years already: Debbie Millman’s Design Matters celebrates its 100th broadcast today with trend maven Dee Dee Gordon.

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May.15.2009
No. 58

Stefan Sagmeister in a dress talks to Neville Brody in a scrunched-up ponytail-kind-of-thing at the offf conference. Design celebrities: they are just like us.

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May.14.2009
No. 57

“Just landed” tweets from around the world are visualized in this video. [Via NOTCOT]

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May.14.2009
No. 56

A collection of Indian matchboxes. [Via Draplin]

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May.14.2009
No. 55

Creative Review unleashes an all new, all encompassing web site. Very nicely executed, if you ask me. The content of the most current issue will be available to subscribers only, but as soon as the new issue hits the shelves, the old content becomes available online to everyone. A fairly reasonable way of dealing with this, um, issue.

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May.14.2009
No. 54

Best interpretation of spam subject lines yet in these witty and pithy little cartoons by Elliott Burford. [Via BuzzFeed]

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May.13.2009
No. 53

Creativity magazine launches a design blog, OnDesign; friend of UC, Joe Marianek, will be blogging there.

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May.13.2009
No. 52

The big design event of the year is coming sooner than you think; register for less money before May 20 for the AIGA National Design Conference in awesome Memphis, TN.

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May.13.2009
No. 51

World map made out of country-appropriate shoes.

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May.13.2009
No. 50

Who better than Hoefler & Frere-Jones to bring us a twenty-first century Clarendon? Introducing Sentinel.

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May.13.2009
No. 49

Dream of speaking at TED someday? Here are the ten commandments (literally) for a successful TED talk. [Via SwissMiss]

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May.12.2009
No. 48

Minimalist balloon shapes.

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May.12.2009
No. 47

Ogilvy’s new business cards, now using 22% less paper and featuring ten money saving slogans. [Via Veer]

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May.12.2009
No. 46

After numerous, tricky folds, issue 923 of Domus reveals a hidden image.

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May.12.2009
No. 45

Wow: The Art of Penguin Science Fiction. Complete with historical design notes. [Via Coudal]

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May.12.2009
No. 44

Stealourideas.com, “We concept, so you don’t have to.”

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May.12.2009
No. 43

[Link corrected] “6. Hire only healthy, active people.” You heard it people, hit those treadmills before hitting InDesign if you want to be hired. Sarcasm aside, this is actually a good, no bullshit list of hiring tips by Andy Rutledge. [Via Undrln]

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May.11.2009
No. 42

Retrologo, a Flickr set. [Via Draplin]

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May.11.2009
No. 41

UniWatch asks some its readers to pick two of their all-time favorite baseball caps, one from the National League and one from the American League.

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May.11.2009
No. 40

These are some sophisticated cupcakes.

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May.11.2009
No. 39

Very cleverly constructed with pieces of furniture: 1 + 1 = 3. [Via Design You Trust]

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May.11.2009
No. 38

A long exposure (30 minutes) photograph of a Roomba vacuum doing its thing. [Via BuzzFeed]

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May.11.2009
No. 37

Video of a presentation by Wired’s art director Scott Dadich at Semi-Permanent.

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May.11.2009
No. 37

Mother New York presents a new service: MomSourcing.

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May.09.2009
No. 36

A collection of Star Trek’s USS Enterprise models pimped by various creatives. [Via House’s Show and Tell, where they share their own USS Enterprise]

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May.08.2009
No. 35

Cards of Change: A site devoted to chronicling the recycling of business cards of those that lost their job. [Via Brandflakesforbreakfast]

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May.08.2009
No. 34

Action- and typography-packed animation for Inlingua, a German language school. [Via FontFeed]

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May.08.2009
No. 33

“How would you rebrand America?” 15 creatives answer this question in the form of a one-page ad. [Via Creativity]

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May.07.2009
No. 32

A collection of “artistic” large oil, propane and water tanks. [Via Draplin]

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May.07.2009
No. 31

Think you know your RGBs? Test your value sliders skills with FORMation’s Eye vs. Eye iPhone app.

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May.07.2009
No. 30

What if those innocent ways of disposing of your enemies in 8-bit video games were a little more gruesome? Pac-man takes on a much more perverse attitude. [Via Kottke]

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May.07.2009
No. 29

2,000 icons set to rap music. Not sure why, but there you have it.

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May.07.2009
No. 28

You can now filter your image results in Google by color. Here is what “cats” filtered through orange gets you.

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May.07.2009
No. 27

Are they men? Women? Are they white? Black? Michael Bierut gathers fifty “Neutered Sprites.”

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May.06.2009
No. 26

College Humor presents Font Fight: Arial vs. Helvetica. [Via HOW]

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May.06.2009
No. 25

Steven Heller assesses When Bad Things Happen to Good Logos. [Via Undrln]

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May.06.2009
No. 24

Without advertising… [Via VIBE]

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May.06.2009
No. 23

Get ready to scroll: Vintage bank logos. [Via Evasee]

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May.06.2009
No. 22

Pretty sweet typographic animation. Could have done without the aged-film filter. [Via Design Observer]

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May.06.2009
No. 21

A Sesame Street and R. Crumb cover mash-up?

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May.05.2009
No. 20

Tie-pography. [Via SwissMiss]

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May.05.2009
No. 19

Uni Watch on the subject of Cinco de Mayo baseball uniforms and some new alternatives they propose.

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May.05.2009
No. 18

The Bloody Cover Awards honor the best covers in the realm of German crime novels. Here is 2009’s winner.

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May.05.2009
No. 17

If you enjoy links related to Blue Note Records album cover design (and who doesn’t?) here are two: 1) A compilation of covers inspired by Blue Note covers and 2) What if the Wu-Tang Clan had released with Blue Note Records?

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May.04.2009
No. 16

Tired of explaining how you broke your arm? Get one of these graphic, self-explanatory slings. [Via Design You Trust]

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May.04.2009
No. 15

Your clients if they were characters from The Big Lebowski. [Via Undrln]

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May.04.2009
No. 14

New UnderConsideration blog, FPO: For Print Only. Enjoy.

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May.04.2009
No. 13

Container List, a blog about items from the graphic design collection at the Milton Glaser Design Study Center and Archives at the School of Visual Arts. [Via Design Observer]

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May.03.2009
No. 12

The most delicious alphabet ever: Pasta, quesadillas, shrimps, tomatoes, and more. [Via Design You Trust]

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May.03.2009
No. 11

A grape cluster-shaped chart of the world’s wine consumption per capita.

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May.01.2009
No. 10

At work but in desperate need to Tweet? Disguise Twitter as a boring spreadsheet with Spreadtweet. [Via Brandflakesforbreakfast]

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May.01.2009
No. 9

Play it and weep: Watch Mexican calligrapher Grabriel Martinez Meave work his magic. [Via Nice Fucking Graphics]

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May.01.2009
No. 8

A nice collection of playful wordmarks (or logotypes, whatever semantic rocks your world). [Via Nice Fucking Graphics]

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May.01.2009
No. 7

The two founders of Brazil-based Nomad Ink studio traveled to Asia for two months in 2008 and report back with the excellent Asian Design Tour. [Via SwissMiss]

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May.01.2009
No. 6

Pretty sweet work (and web navigation) by Moscow-based Transformer Studio. (Make sure to select English from the bottom-right corner). [Via Design You Trust]

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Apr.30.2009
No. 5

Christoph Niemann for Google’s Chrome browser, and 10 other shorts. [Via Motionographer]

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Apr.30.2009
No. 3

Three spots that prove this is not your parent’s Scrabble.

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Apr.30.2009
No. 2

The great @Issue journal of business and design is now blogging. [Via Design Observer]

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Apr.30.2009
No. 1

The winners and finalists of the 2009 National Design Awards by the Cooper-Hewitt.

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Apr.30.2009
Vol. 29, May 2009

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Apr.30.2009
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