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November 1, 2007
De Balie Beeld tegen Beeld Wild Plakken
Christophe Huet
The"making of" slide shows are great.
Buckminster on beauty
"When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."
Buckminster Fuller
Neutra No.2
Banksy
November 2, 2007
amyb13
anthony lister
japanese letterpress
Young moderns, circa 1961
The Yellow Garden Book
Ed Emberley: Weirdos
catherine ledner
As long as it's good...
Joey Roth
This wireless mouse is made from natural wool felt and laminated bamboo ply. The feltâs softness and plyability makes the mouse comfortable without looking âcartoonishlyâ ergonomic. The button layout follows the golden rectangle.
Motherland
Static Movement
November 3, 2007
microscopist, Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
Gustav Rehberger
Paula Scher #2
November 4, 2007
Early 50s Disney Christmas Cards
nice covers
Progressive Indexing and Filing
November 6, 2007
Rotring Isograph
SampsonMay 2008 calendar
Circular fifteen
Good Design
Chicago Spire
November 7, 2007
NICK SHERMAN
November 8, 2007
Gary Taxali
November 9, 2007
SPAM paintings
Via BB
Early calculator watch prototype
Mas NAGO
Alvin Lustig
November 10, 2007
Rants are good
What a travesty this Android announcement is. A 34-company committee that's going to oversee the development of a currently non-existent suite of open-source mobile applications to run on as-yet-unspecified hardware. I've never seen so much hot air, and honestly I'm kind of shocked that it came out of Google.
A 34-company committee couldn't create a successful ham sandwich, much less a mobile application suite. It's going to be some half-baked turd undoubtedly based on GPE since that's, you know, better than starting from scratch, right? (Wrong.)
For heaven's sake: Find someone, ONE person, with a unique vision. Lock them in a room with some programmers and a graphic designer. Twenty people, tops. Change the world. Quit re-hashing the same old bullshit and telling me it's new, exciting, or in any way innovative. Be ready to fail, many times, but for love of all that is holy take a stand on something.
You have NO CLUE why the iPhone is successful and highly sought after, do you? You think it's all some sort of weird fluke. A market anomaly. That these millions of iPhone owners are going to wake up one morning and say OH SHIT this doesn't have MMS, what was I thinking! How can such a technological abortion be popular? Come ON, Google, you know better.
People don't want FEATURES. They'll tell you they do until they're blue in the face. But what they actually want is ease-of-use, and solutions to real-world problems -- looking at a map, finding nearby restaurants, sending a photo to a friend without going through 6 submenus, not to mention making phone calls. You're Google, you're actually not too bad at this. Ditch those other 33 companies, put 20 of your smartest people on it, and you stand a fighting chance. Otherwise just let it go -- this PR non-announcement isn't worth the time it takes to read.
November 11, 2007
The Design Conspiracy
Lorenzo Geiger
Serial Cut
Os Gemeos
Assum Preto, 2007
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November 14, 2007
Debbie Powell
felt moleskine pouch
Tiki
I have no idea
Sanna Annukka
het nationale ballet
3th Ranking
nikelle orellana
The content of form
Hard boiled baddies
Coop's Outdoor Ad
When I Grow Up I Wanna Work in Advertising
Rockets through the ages
Key
Popel Coumou
Bennett Robot Works
bookhou baby quilts
Alex Woolley
Hot titles
Not For Commercial Use
A better picture of the boys
Adolphe Mouron Cassandre
futurism & sport design
Ray Fenwick
Beetle & Samba
Designer Bookbinders
Typewritter Illustrations
Varoom
November 15, 2007
fonte sconosciuta
FRÉDÉRIC TACER
Expo 67 Motreal
CP points to this from time to time, I never seem to mind
Zürich-Milano
Leach Cross: 1915
GroundSurf
Gaffer tape sign maker man
Victorian Graphic Design
Patent Pending Industries
November 19, 2007
Licorne
Incredible (yet disturbing) images of the French nuclear tests, codenamed "Licorne", that took place on 24th August, 1970, in French Polynesian waters.
Irma Boom
November 20, 2007
International Harvester print ads, 1941
Robert Moore
Throughout the 50's, Atlas Tires used a variety of multi-panel layouts for all its ads, whether they were for tires, batteries, anti-freeze or whatever other accessories the customer might need. Thanks to that design consistency, I'd say the company maintained a highly recognizable identity. Very laudable from a branding point of view.
ED VALIGURSKY
New York Look
US Navy manual
1926 poster depicts human as a chemical plant
Laptops designed by 7-year-olds
ISBN 4-89444-518-2 c3070
I am to sexy for my tea
Design will Save the World
Corporate Design
Homework
Brand Icons
London 2090 A.D.
Hans Hartmann
J.A. Grose
Ladislav Sutnar
Life on Mars
Tokyo design
A nice movie and real glass shadow screen.
Lola
jennifer maestre
November 21, 2007
Vintage cycling posters
November 22, 2007
Race Riots
Fictional brand identities
1954 Industrial Design Magazine
256TM
Fonderie Typographique
Breakmold
Biblioteca UPC
Heide the Honey
November 27, 2007
Paul Sahre
Link form Serif
Darkness at Noon designed by the Office of Paul Sahre
By Default
Old style, but I like it. Definitely flavors of Richard Paul Lohse
Richard Paul Lohse
Constructive graphic design
Lohse started off as a graphic designer when the development of photomontage and typomontage by the Constructivist avantgarde was cut short in many parts of Europe by political events. Out of the pictorial discoveries of Constructivism, he developed a form of Constructive design that helped to give form to the concept of Swiss graphics, which was to have a global impact on design in the 1950s. Lohse did not confuse graphic design with the self-satisfied expression of the artist's subjectivity through the graphic medium. Rather he found means of giving objective form to differentiated content. (Jörg Stürzebecher, 1999)
wa75
jason's drawing journal
Meta Serif?
Ummm, not so much
70s Matchbox label from the Czech Republic
The Colorblind James Experience
Linked from I'm Learning To Share!
WK Interact
Gustav Rehberger
Look again
Foos Poster (not a Pentagram design {pity})
Justus Oehler
OOO claims the Colossus
TROIKA BOOM BOX
$79!!
I got tired of white
November 28, 2007
Tavis Coburn
Ork
Utagawa Hiroshige
Steve Smith
A summit of clones of Steve Smith from London-based Neasden Control Centre... From "Lost Control" published by Die Gestalten Verlag. © 2007 Die Gestalten Verlag, Berlin
Lost control
KONA BIKES
INHABITOTS
Yvonne Fehling and Jennie Peiz
Eames chair coasters
Typophile Film Fest 4 opening credits
Linked from Type for you
Virgin America Safety Video
food pairing networks
Zevs
November 29, 2007
Will Burtin
From first issue to last, Scope magazine may provide the best case study of how a designer’s skill can translate complex data into easily grasped, symbolic visuals. This cover flags the story, “Telling lines—some notes on graphs” (Spring 1953).
The Upjohn Brain, a working schematic in three dimensions. Where the Cell modeled a physical object, the Brain introduced the concept of time窶杯he time messages take to thread neural pathways. Red lights represent visual stimuli; green, auditory; white, muscle function. Photo by Ezra Stoller
In 1948, writer Lawrence Lessing, author of the text for Burtinâs gunnery manuals, teamed with him again to describe their project for Graphis. For this, Burtin added lines showing paths taken by traineesâ eyes, on a first pass and on subsequent passes.
GRAYDON SHEPPARD
Meet Elena
xmas gift
Boris Kobe's Tarot Cards from Allach Concentration
Many more very high res photos there.
I found this completely by accident, and while the overtones are quite gruesome and dark, the work is fascinating.
Boris Kobe (1905-81) was a Slovenian architect and painter who became a political prisoner in the concentration camp of Allach, a sub-camp of Dachau, near Munich, Germany.
These images are from reproductions of the original cards provided courtesy of the Slovenian delegation (Slovenian Ministry of Education) to the Stockholm International Conference in the year 2000. Reproduction sets of cards were given to educators who attended the Swedish government sponsored conference in order to help identify an aspect of the victimization of one Slovenian political prisoner who became a prominent architect after the war.
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November 30, 2007
The Abduction Lamp
