Quipsologies

Vol. 77 | No. 71

2013-05-20T13:59:28Z

A look at the posters for the movies showing at the Cannes Film Festival.

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Vol. 77 | No. 70

2013-05-20T13:53:16Z

As part of his MFA project exhibit on the truck art of India Shantanu Suman created these hand-painted music boxes with a sampling of horn pitches from trucks. Those are viewable at the link, and here is a miniature 3D-printed replica truck he created.

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Vol. 77 | No. 69

2013-05-20T13:51:15Z

Fun concept for a colorful, design-ey alternative to the typical green cutting mat by Allison Braund.

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Vol. 77 | No. 68

2013-05-18T07:17:50Z

Probably not as exotic as the A-Z of unusual words but at least as beautiful and enlightening - Illustrated Etymology is a collection of visual correlatives to English word history.

Pictured: porcelain - from Middle French porcelaine and directly from Italian porcellana "porcelain" (13c.), literally "cowrie shell," the chinaware so called from resemblance of its lustrous transparency to the shiny surface of the shells. The shell's name in Italian is from porcella "young sow," fem. of Latin porcellus "young pig," diminutive of porculus "piglet," diminutive of porcus "pig."

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Vol. 77 | No. 67

2013-05-17T11:24:04Z

Some wonderful, typographic covers going on at NBA Italia magazine. While you are at the link, check more magazine covers at the fab El Portadista.

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Vol. 77 | No. 66

2013-05-17T11:24:03Z

Lovely animation for fun-filled catchy anthem for Oreo cookies wondering what would happen of villains and baddies ate an Oreo.

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Vol. 77 | No. 65

2013-05-17T11:24:02Z

Nice piece by Steve Heller for The Atlantic on Facebook's Analog Research Laboratory, spearheaded by Ben Barry.

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Vol. 77 | No. 64

2013-05-17T11:24:01Z

You can use Google Maps to navigate through MailChimp's headquarters, which basically proves what we all thought all along: that place is run by monkeys.

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Vol. 77 | No. 63

2013-05-16T14:22:26Z

Colour palettes from movie stills. Just like watching the movie but without the artsy stuff.

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Vol. 77 | No. 62

2013-05-16T12:25:02Z

After a successful Kickstarter campaign to "hire a man in a plane to write stupid things with clouds in the sky" comedian Kurt Braunohler did this over Downtown LA.

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Vol. 77 | No. 61

2013-05-16T12:25:01Z

Each page in this calendar designed by Kelle Rebbe for German tea manufacture Hälssen & Lyon is a wafer-thin compression of tea leaves ready for brewing. Amazing.

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Vol. 77 | No. 60

2013-05-16T12:25:00Z

Pop Chart Lab's "The Cocktail Chart of Film & Literature" featuring famous drinks like The Dude's White Russian and Carrie Bradshaw's Cosmo.

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Vol. 77 | No. 59

2013-05-16T08:51:46Z

Want to know what "in more shit than a Werribee duck" means in Melbourne, Australia, or just enjoy the beautiful lettering, head over for this Tumblr.

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Vol. 77 | No. 58

2013-05-16T08:40:15Z

If Saul Bass designed the poster for (a Stanley Kubrick directed) Game of Thrones.

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Vol. 77 | No. 57

2013-05-15T11:30:04Z

Paula Scher's keynote at the recent Adobe Max is available to view.

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