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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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Trailer for Ji Lee’s Word as Image book where his challenge is to “Create an image out of a word, using only the letters in the word itself.” And the rule is to “Use only the graphic elements of the letters without adding outside elements.”
10.11.2011
Just one more reason to teach your grandma asap how to change the default ringtone of her Nokia.
10.11.2011
More pixels coming your way - this time from the showroom of Japanese designer Kunihiko Morinaga in Tokyo.
10.11.2011
Very nice 8-bit-inspired animation for FOX Retro, an Italian channel that shows American programming from the 1970s, 80s and 90s. By Punga.
10.10.2011
4CP, a collection of close-ups of comic books revealing some delicious CMYK rosette patterns.
10.10.2011
I’m not really sure I get this, but here goes: “The Frankenfont project reconstructs Mary Shelley’s classic Frankenstein using parts of incomplete fonts found in PDFs from the internet.”
10.10.2011
The Herb Lubalin Study Center at The Cooper Union presents “Pharma,” an exhibition on the world of pharmaceutical design from mid-twentieth century designers like Lester Beall, Will Burtin, Paul Rand, Franco Grignani, the staff of Geigy and Herb Lubalin. November 1 to December 3, 2011.
10.10.2011
T Mercy started this art project in his bedroom in Summer 2011. He was 17 with no girlfriend, no art supplies except paper and pens, and a passion for swear words.
10.10.2011
Doug Clouse will be speaking about “Typographic Taste in the Late Nineteenth Century” this Monday, October 10, at Cooper Union, in New York City. This lecture is part of the Type@Cooper program and is free and open to the public. More info and free registration at the link.
10.09.2011
