Title, Year
Grafa International, 1936

The official catalog for the third Grafa or “Graphische Fachausstellung” (Printing Trades Exhibition), located at the Basel, Switzerland Trade Fair, June 13-26, 1936. This 2-color cover design (adapted from the exhibition poster) was designed by the prolific Hermann Eidenbenz who handled all printed matter for the exhibition. This catalog includes an important article by Jan Tschichold (who also organized the exhibits foreign section submissions) titled Neue Typographie.

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produced by danese, 1957

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Lovely new Web-mag from Jean Snow and Co.

So why launch a web magazine? It’s an idea I’ve long had — taking what I’ve done over the years with my own blog (this very place) and turning into something a bit less personal, and more magazine-like. I’ve always felt that a site named after a person and set up as a blog has certain limitations in what it can achieve. Yeah, yeah, no need to remind me that the name I’ve chosen for this new project doesn’t exactly stray far from what I have now, but to me it does — I wouldn’t have chosen it if my family name could not double as a common noun.

But more than just the name, it also comes through in the presentation. As you’ll see when SNOW finally launches, it was important for me to have a design that doesn’t just feel like a constant stream of titled posts in chronological order — even though it will still be powered by WordPress — and something that also allows me to be more flexible with image size.

Go watch this trailer, it may change you.

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I'm a habitual self-interlocutor. Around the time I started photographing at the Natural History Museum, one evening I had a near-hallucinatory vision. The question-and-answer session that led up to this vision went something like this: Suppose you shoot a whole movie in a single frame? And the answer: You get a shining screen. Immediately I sprang into action, experimenting toward realizing this vision. Dressed up as a tourist, I walked into a cheap cinema in the East Village with a large-format camera. As soon as the movie started, I fixed the shutter at a wide-open aperture, and two hours later when the movie finished, I clicked the shutter closed. That evening, I developed the film, and the vision exploded behind my eyes.

- Hiroshi Sugimoto

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"The world's first street art disaster movie"

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this is a diamond loupe which combines a high-quality optical lens with an ergonomic, lightweight design.

It won a Henry Van De Velde award

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Country: USA
Circulation: about 250.000
http://www.courant.com/ (to bad the Web site's not as nice)

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Manual Desrochers' Ovopur water filtration system is three E's--eco-friendly, elegant and expensive. The porcelian and mouth-blown glass unit lets water seep through a four-stage internal filter, filling up the lower part of the egg; the glass base provides the necessary height to get a drinking glass under the tap.

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Big types customarily bring up the rear of a type specimen book, and Catalogue No. 14 does not disappoint. The book reaches an explosive crescendo with this design at 864 point, in which just two letters fill the entire page. This typeface, which Hamilton called “No. 266,” is the design that inspired our Knockout No. 66 font. It appears on p. 119 of Hamilton’s Catalogue No. 14; check out page 120 for the biggest type of all.

-> Quoted from the H&FJ News

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A science and science fiction inspired watch that uses a motion similar to planets rotating around a sun. The rings of the watch are in constant motion, creating a mesmerizing spectacle. The goal of this watch is to create a new form of telling time that will inspire and spark wonder in the viewer.

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The Sixpack is a bottle carrier that can hold up to 6 beer, soft drink, or water bottles. It’s perfect for those BYO dinner outings where a normal 6 pack gets destroyed after you rip out one beer.

Description: Carrier rack made of steel
Dimensions: 25 x 10 x 5 cm / 9,8 x 3,9 x 2 inch
Design: OOOMS

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HEMA office supplies packaging, 2002

No grey, no silver, no dark blue, no, no, no! Office humour used on office supplies. Very recognisable! Didn’t make it to the shops! A missed opportunity in our opinion.

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Via Spoon & Tomago, a passive wood based humidifier - no electricity required. "Known for its high-quality timber, rot-resistant qualities and lemony scent, the thinly sliced Hinoki mast absorbs water from the hull and diffuses it, and its intrinsic aroma, into the room." More here (in Japanese).

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Fantastic job tracker implementation. If you've ever worked in a big agency, keeping track of job flow is one of the biggest issues you face on a daily basis.

Quoted from Alex Bogusky’s Posterous blog:

Keeping track of all the jobs flowing through is a challenge for every agency. For about a year we’ve been fantasizing about a huge status board that was accessible to the whole shop. Something that was live and constantly updating. Like the arrivals and departures in Grand Central Station. Unfortunately, the status of “Project Ticker” has been ON HOLD for about 9 months and then I looked up yesterday and it was done. Man, it is really cool. Here’s what Director of Integrated Production, Dave Rolfe, has to say about it:

Now if I can only get one of these for my personal life.