// 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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// 25 October 2009, 21:33
Not that I want to sit here and comment on the tempest-tossed magazine industry, but I spotted a news item last week that got lost among the business section. Bloomberg, the financial data and media company run by New York Billionaire-Turned-Mayor Michael Bloomberg, has bought the popular BusinessWeek magazine.
One shocking figure is how cheap an [...]
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// 15 October 2009, 18:25
Obama covers, photo by Johanna Perez-Fox
If you’ve been following the design news, or even the regular-ass news, for the past week or so, you’ve learned once again that magazines are in trouble. Condé Nast recently folded four titles, and with folks still losing jobs and having to scale back recreational spending, it seems that the [...]
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// 27 August 2009, 16:34
Ikea, the long-standing pillar of minimalist style and European design savvy, has abandoned Futura, the typeface used for decades in favour of Verdana. The choice to change typefaces is somewhat unexpected, but choosing Verdana, generally considered a web font, is truly puzzling. Ikea have used Futura, and later their own variant, Ikea Sans, for 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 »
via Design Work Life [...]
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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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// 13 June 2009, 00:03
This week, all the talk is about the D&AD Awards, and the winners of this year’s über-prestigous design and advertising contest. Notable this year was how many Black Pencils were awarded in the realm of graphic design, especially when compared to recent years when Graphic Design barely made a blip on the judges table. (in [...]
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