// 28 December 2009, 14:56
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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// 16 December 2009, 13:21
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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// 02 October 2009, 10:34
Today turned up a sparkly little collection of French movie posters from the 50s and 60s. Great stuff, check ‘em out.
Am I the only on who feels that some of these would make excellent book covers? Especially the ones sans photographs, that are heavily graphical. Could work, non?
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// 01 September 2009, 13:01
O that I were yet a grad student, for surely this would be my thesis.
London, my beloved bittersweet mistress of a second-city, has an identity crisis, and has put out the call to the design firms of Britain (and to a lesser degree, the world), to redesign the brand identity for London. While a bit [...]
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// 22 August 2009, 09:26
Follow yesternight’s post, I dug up another Flickr page of gorgeous design work. This one is from Adam the Velcro Suit, who designs posters, CDs, badges, skateboards, and other brickerbrack. Love the mid-century style with reference to low-tech print making. Great sense of colour as well.
Adam the Velcro Suit on Flickr »
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// 21 August 2009, 23:22
Check out this Flickr pool of beautiful faded signage and advertisements. I love this crap, wish I could go around photographing more of it. There’s actually an example right at the end of my street.
Faded Signage on Flickr »
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// 16 August 2009, 23:54
This is a quick one — the other day, Gothamist featured a few photos from the many, many, forgotten tomes of the New York Public Library. These are gorgeous. We should all take time to appreciate the beauty in simplicity of yesteryear’s printing techniques.
If you’re interested in these, part of the Rare Books series at NYPL, [...]
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