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detail from one of the 3’ x 7’ canvases House did for the House Über Alles show in LA about this time last year.

These Edward Gorey images accompanied an article that ran in the June 10th, 1969 issue of Look Magazine.

'The Wedding Racket' by Peregrine Pace gave cautionary information on how excessive charges can mount up quickly when planning a wedding.

When, oh when will some politician break the mold and hire a real graphic designer? I'd really love to see what someone like Kit Hinrichs could do

"Jack Welch (born 1905 in Cleburne, Texas, died 1985) was an American illustrator known for his drawings and gouache paintings of droll family activities and his cover illustrations for The Saturday Evening Post. He was a member of the Society of Illustrators," says the artist's listing on Wikipedia. That might be all the info we'll find about Welch for the time being.

From 1961 to 1969 the USSR and the United States were locked in a history-making race to land the first person on the moon. This detailed map explains the story of this titanic contest in a clear and informative manner. From afar, it is striking to look at; up close, the rich set of data imparts on the viewer a deeper understanding of why the US prevailed.

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Luggage label for MISR Egyptian Airlines, circa 1938. View one.

Luggage label for Ansett Airways Ltd., circa 1935.

Luggage label for MISR Egyptian Airlines, circa 1938. View one.

Travel brochure "70% Erm舖sigung auf den Flugstrecken bei Ruckkehr auf den ﾄ憩choslovakischen B臈er," 1938. Published by ﾄ憩dok and A.L.A. Signed "F. B匀ek."

Brochure "CIDNA - Fl鐵he d'Orient Quotidien - Orient Arrow Daily," 1932. Published by "CIDNA - Compagnie Internationale de Navigation A駻ienne, Paris." Singed "E. Maurus, Cr饌tion 'Publix.'

Advertisement for "Scintilla" batteries, 1937 (flip side of brochure for "IV. Internationales Flugmeeting Zürich, 23. Juli-1. Aug. 1937.

From the collection of Henri Kaper

Time-table "Air Travel in Nippon - Dai-Nippon Kōkō Kaisya, 1938.

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Cool cover by Rudolf Schucht for Hoechst News 65. I believe Hoechst News 65 was the in house magazine for the German life science company Hoechst AG (now Sanofi-Aventis). For the cover design Rudolf pulled elements from the articles contained within the magazine. The top two icons refer to Italian cuisine. The item below is an ampule of Salvarsan used in clinical testing against Syphilis. The background graph refers to work by Dr. Walter Seifried.

Gotham typeface, as used by Senator Barack Obama. Curiously, John Edwards is also using Gotham

Go figure, at least someone has good taste in fonts. Say yay for Hoefler & Frere-Jones

Michael Fakesch website

Electronic musician Michael Fakesch (part duo of ex Funkstorung) asked us to create a website for his solo project. The chosen design is simple, logical and it is easy to navigate. Flash programming made by Martynas, CMS made by Donatas. Website can be seen here: www.michaelfakesch.com

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While I love FFFFound and I know FFFFound loves me, sloppy blogging of images make finding the source of an image a real pain in the ass. Much of this is due to blogger and Flickr's method of image management, they use image central banks that code images for easier database management but make tracing a specific image back to it's source near impossible. Have you ever downloaded an image e.g. like the above, then later tried to find the source by googleing the name? it doesn't work to well.

A signage system is much more than just a set of signposts and symbols. As well as its practical application, it helps to create an identity for a space and can add decorative flair to any built environment. This book showcases great examples of signage design worldwide, ranging from museums and schools to transport systems, with an emphasis on the most original approaches to tackling the task

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Print of an original illustration done in ink then digitally colored.

Print measures 8.5" x 11" including a white border for framing (actual image size is about 7" x 9.5"). Printed on archival matte poly/cotton canvas. If you're unfamiliar with this, it's like bendy paper with a finished canvas texture. It makes prints look amazing for framing or hanging on their own. And the colors look so rich and vibrant. I like that it's more durable than paper.

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Each of these stunning prints have been hand letterpressed by Douglas Wilson, directly onto part of his antique map collection! The diversity of these maps and the printing method combined means that each print is truly unique. A fantastic phrase which has been executed perfectly, in true Douglas Wilson style!

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Great name for a design firm

love of said some was

Collage on Watercolor Paper.
10" x 10"

Collage 8 in a series of 14.

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SHIRO.HELMET.COSTUMIZATION

Work.Description
Costumized Helmet for Keles

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Laboratorium is an outstanding design studio from Zagreb, Croatia.
Last year they created this simple calendar that can be put together by joining two adhesive tapes. As long as you put the right day on the first of each month, then you're safe. It's simple, smart and echo-friendly.

HOW TO DRAW A BUNNY explores the fascinating, often hilarious, and always enigmatic world of artist and underground icon Ray Johnson. A “Pop Art mystery movie,” the film is framed by Johnson's myserious death on Friday, January 13, 1995, the puzzling circumstances of which left both his intimate admirers and the general public wondering if this was a final “Performance.” Little has been written about him, yet the man who many have dubbed “the most famous unknown artist” was considered a genius whose career spanned nearly fifty years and whose collages have been exhibited in major museums around the world.

Features in-depth interviews with famous art world personalities including Roy Lichtenstein, Christo & Jeanne-Claude, Chuck Close, Billy Name, James Rosenquist, Richard Feigen, Norman Solomon, and many more.

Fantastic movie, really a must see

Atomic Time, Winston Smith, 1980. Winston Smith is a crazy collage artist guy who made tons of stuff including a zine called Fallout, lots of record covers for The Dead Kennedys and the Alternative Tentacles label, and several books.

IRAN I ROCK I ROLL. A Flyer for Target Video. Designed by Raleigh Pardum. 1980. Target Video supplied visuals for bands and hosted a bunch of fun after hours parties until a police raid shut 'em down in 1980. The Man is such a jerk! Anyway, Raleigh Pardum, where are you now?

Flying Saws. Artbreakers. 1979. Design by Richard Stutting. Richard Stutting/Artbreakers made a lot of posters and record covers.

The Blowdryers. James Stark (photo also by him). 1979. James Stark was a photographer who hung around the punk scene in SF and took pictures. His site is sort of a mess but there're some good quotes and some pixelly photos to check out.

Found vintage packaging

Science Channel get modern

Bell Gothic. Designed by Chauncey H. Griffith in 1938, it was commissioned by AT&T as a proprietary typeface for use in their telephone directories, and was superseded (as far as AT&T are concerned) by Matthew Carter's Bell Centennial in 1978, the one hundredth anniversary of AT&T's founding.

designer jennifer daniel has assembled a group of 12 designers to create one page each for a 2008 calendar.
each month is represented on an 18" x 24" poster that is designed by a different designer. some of the posters
are a decorative take on the traditional calendar layout, while others offer a new variation on convention.

VERT DESIGN
Product Design

Australian design company Vert Design have got some nice products available to buy. Among them is ‘MC Mallet’, a CNC cut flat packed hammer, ideal for woodworking, cooking, furniture assembly or as a child’s toy.

This 'ill be at Ikea in about 10 minutes

He is cuckoo about letters, he loves them, so far is certain. He is also one of those fellows who can read a chunky novel in a couple of hours, but that’s a different story. His designs are transparant, leaving room to breathe. Them letters got things to say, they are so clear it tickles your eye and make you blink.

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Before pre-fab became so fabulously fab, the Small Homes Council at the University of Illinois in Urbana, Illinois published Homes From Pre-Assembled Wall Panels in 1954.

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In the quest of recreating the typeface Brauer, Lineto has done some excellent detective work.
Talking about the development of the «Brauer» typeface, its originator
Pierre Miedinger (a nephew of the designer of Helvetica, the legendary Max Miedinger) cryptically said: «As we all know, beer contains alcohol, an intoxicant with all its known side effects, it blurs the vision and obliterates any sharp edges. That’s why we continuously squinted when checking the shapes of the developing letters while drawing the typeface. The resulting negative drawing of the font is both sharp and rounded - as if you didn’t have clear vision anymore.»

We raise our glass to Messrs Miedinger, Walser and Desarzens whose fonts promise to reach the parts other fonts cannot reach!

Fantastic type experiments from Merci Bernard

Polygraph makes it possible to transform any letter into another when you walk around it. This system is composed of two elements, a wooden structure, and square modules of varnished paperboards, each painted with a black line, curve or angle. Each letter is made up of six parts. The various modules on offer (square, full, curved, etc.) make it possible to obtain many different letters. The four sides of the structure permit to show four different letters or signs, that the passers-by can read only when they are in the right direction. Polygraph is sold in a box, explaining how to build the wooden structure, and it contains a hundred printed modules.

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Great collage motion design from Collider, check out Mirrorball in the Design section.

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Explanation: Why does Jupiter have rings? Jupiter's rings were discovered in 1979 by the passing Voyager 1 spacecraft, but their origin was a mystery. Data from the Galileo spacecraft that orbited Jupiter from 1995 to 2003 later confirmed that these rings were created by meteoroid impacts on small nearby moons. As a small meteoroid strikes tiny Adrastea, for example, it will bore into the moon, vaporize, and explode dirt and dust off into a Jovian orbit. Pictured above is an eclipse of the Sun by Jupiter, as viewed from Galileo. Small dust particles high in Jupiter's atmosphere, as well as the dust particles that compose the rings, can be seen by reflected sunlight.

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Great poster for the winter sale at Blackbird

Card case with loop closure in distressed vintage brown leather ($92)

Working hand-in-hand with Amish leather workers out of Pennsylvania for many of their products, Billykirk has been making leather (and other) goods since 1999.

Printed on newsprint, using a strictly limited pallet of colors (except for the outer 4c groundwood signature) Lumpen would probably come off as ghastly if you described the colors (clashing) the topics (hopelessly idealistic) the paper (gray) or the production approach (guest designers produce the feature well) but is nothing short of magnificent when you see pages.

Another Dieter Rams homage yet again. A combination of a Flickr pool and Erik's contentious argument that Jonathan Ive is actually a droid controlled by Dieter Rams brought us, here at Things to Look At, to think once again how great the covers of the Braun Magazine are. You can even spend more of that January cash by buying a few here or simply drool over this collection.
Follow the link for the links

In honor of PC Mag's 25th anniversary, HP commissioned ten well-known designers to spruce up one of four different laptop models. These one-of-a-kind machines made their debut last night at the magazine's rockin' quarter-century celebration hosted at the MGM Grand's Tabu Ultra Lounge -- well, almost all of them did: apparently Applebottoms by Nelly wasn't able to ship its unit out in time. The other nine notebooks from such names as James De La Vega and Paul Frank -- which will be auctioned off after making a short PR tour -- run the gamet from glitzy to understated to politically-minded.

Ours isn't a government that holds designers in especially high esteem; a glance at the back of the $20 bill says as much. So it was with both delight and surprise that I learned this morning that the U. S. Postal Service is scheduled to roll out this set of stamps next summer, honoring the great contributions of Charles and Ray Eames.

A new ad in Australia highlights the dangers of crossing the road with your MP3 player rumbling your inner ear canal at full volume. And of course, it shows the iPod in a new twist of Apple's original silhouettes campaign, now using the headphones cable as a way to draw the place in which a body lies dead.

From London creative consultancy, Fig Tree.

Casio today announced its EXILIM EX-F1 - a six megapixel camera with 12x zoom and some very impressive burst shooting capabilities. Capturing up to 60 frames per second at full resolution and a staggering 1200 fps if you drop the image size to 336 x 96, this innovative camera will also shoot 1920 x 1080 Full HD movies at 60fps. Helping to ensure the moment isn't missed is a buffer system which continually updates then saves the contents to card when the shutter is released. Illumination is taken care of by a conventional strobe which works at up to 7 fps and a cellphone-style LED for 10-60 fps. The EX-F1 will be available from March 2008 priced at $999.99.

Octopus Tee
100% cotton, Italian high quality jersey
Made in Italy, custom cut&sewn
Custom flag in the side
Added detailing

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on december 11, 2007 the polish government chose a winner in the design competition for the polish pavilion at the 2010 world expo in shanghai. the winning entry was design by architects wojciech kakowski, marcin mostafa and natalia paszkowska. their building is inspired by traditional polish folk art paper cut-outs reinterpreted in a contemporary fashion. the idea was generated when the team sought to create a 'cultural ideogram' that would signify the country of origin in an iconic way. the project focuses on exploring the importance of the personal experience between buildings and people. the ramp that is created by the folded exterior enables visitors to climb onto the roof of the building, making the entire building a function exhibition space.

electric moons is a team of artists and engineers who produce light installations made using a grid of balloons that are fitted with super bright led lights placed in a dark room. with the addition of sound and a specially designed interactive control system, the installation becomes a giant 3d display matrix. 'through variable positioning and illumination of each atom, a dynamic display sculpture comes into being, composed of physical objects, patterns of light, and synchronous rhythmic and textural sonic events. change, sound, and movement converge into a larger form.' their new 'atom' performance was first revealed at tesla in berlin and will be featured at paris' centre pompidou on april 4, 2008. make sure to check out the video to see the installation in action.

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Could be good if the video links ever work…