Luckily, the astute folks at the New York Times are highly organised, and thus they have produced for our enjoyment, a grid-based, icon-fueled look at the last ten years in news, business, culture, and other categories of time–space. Love it.
Think for a second that this was done mainly with icons. One tiny image can encapsulate [...]

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I do hate myself a little for compiling an end-of-year top ten list, but in the spirit of professional altruism, I’m sharing with you, dear readers, ten brilliant blogs I’ve discovered, and have since become addicted to, in 2009. In no particular order:
1. It’s Nice That Touches my soft spot for Britain and provides daily [...]

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The Times Online has compiled a great list of 50 of the World’s Best Design Blogs.
Sadly, I did not make the list, and neither did my business-card focused spin-off, Your Business Card Sucks. These mainly aren’t graphic design blogs, but slant more towards interiors, furniture, gifts, and other brickerbrack that is, nonetheless, designed. The list [...]

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I love this time of year, all the collections come out and we marvel at what a strange year it’s been. In the past, I have featured bad album covers, but we can always use a few more, no?
Thanks to the staff [and interns] at Pitchfork for scouring the globe to bring us this. I [...]

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Dynamic Planning for COIN in Afghanistan — Click for a larger view
Did anyone see the recently unveiled plan for Afghanistan? I certainly can’t make sense of it.
But in the utter mess of this infographic, there is a sort of beauty. If it were to be expanded and expanded again, surely it would become a sort [...]

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I often get frustrated with calendars. The numbers are too small, usually, and then there’s that last week where days 30 and 31 are crammed into the same boxes and there week-earlier counterpart, and the most annoying trait to me has always been how you can’t reference the previous or upcoming month without flipping pages [...]

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Identity for an artist studio and workshop center. The Art Studio is a functional artists studio run by Katerina Siskou, a painter, and mixed-media artist based in Cyprus. The Art Studio offers lessons for local citizens interested in recreation through art. However, in recent economic times, enrollment is down, and therefore The Art Studio is [...]

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