// 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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// 15 December 2009, 13:27
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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// 29 November 2009, 15:51
McDonald’s is going green. Not just in the larger corporate responsibility sense, rather they’re changing the actual colour of their logo, to green. News comes from Europe, where the company is a bit more progressive, at least outwardly.
About 100 German McDonald’s restaurants will make the change by the end of 2009
That’s from an AP article [...]
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// 29 September 2009, 18:12
Honest Tea, a fancy-pants organic drinks brand, and Coca-Cola property, has reengineered their bottles to appear larger, but are actually the same size. Treachery.
This sort of on-shelf scammery gets a massive thumbs-down from me. Straightforwardness should be part of every brand’s offering, but especially for a brand that has the word “Honest” in its name! [...]
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// 28 September 2009, 15:54
Although I don’t drink, I love observing the beer arena through a branding and design lens. The latest, um, Brew-ha-ha is coming out of Britain, where folks take beer seriously. Here’s the skinny: A small brewing company called Brew Dog debuted very strong brew called Tokyo, which clocks in at a whopping 18.2% APV. A [...]
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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 ยป
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// 21 August 2009, 15:30
Former UK Prime Minister Sir John Major once famously said Britain was, and will remain “the country of long shadows on cricket grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers, and pools fillers.” He forgot something: Marmite.
Marmite have released a special edition England Cricket packaging for the old standby of a condiment. These batches of [...]
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