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July 8, 2008
July 9, 2008
How a page gets created
Matt Willey recently recorded his decision-making on a feature design for the Royal Academy magazine. It provides a very useful insight into how page designs get arrived at, one that anyone who’s ever designed a magazine will recognize.
vintage postage stamp - 100 years of baseball
stamp commemorating 100 years of Professional Baseball c 1969 - printed on a Giori press.
July 10, 2008
Annelou van Griensven
Filthy Lucre
The Colour of Maths
Save Polaroid
Pruskin
Yee-Haw Industries
Deceptive Design
Sawn-In-Half Cameras
Xo Morpion by Peleg Design
July 14, 2008
RA DIOHEA_D / HOU SE OF_C ARDS
Radiohead just released a new video for its song "House of Cards" from the album "In Rainbows".
No cameras or lights were used. Instead two technologies were used to capture 3D images: Geometric Informatics and Velodyne LIDAR. Geometric Informatics scanning systems produce structured light to capture 3D images at close proximity, while a Velodyne Lidar system that uses multiple lasers is used to capture large environments such as landscapes. In this video, 64 lasers rotating and shooting in a 360 degree radius 900 times per minute produced all the exterior scenes.
Watch the making-of video to learn about how the video was made and the various technologies that were used to capture and render 3D data.
Wicked stuff, go play with the Data Visualization tools and watch some vids
Via CPlurv
ROBERT BOON
Spotting the Long-Necked Kern
This publicity photo, from the Berthold foundry’s Specimen No. 525B (late 1950s?) shows the foundry type for Arabic Shaded No. 50. In addition to demonstrating the maker’s facility with both non-Latin scripts and elaborate ornamentation (this is an outline face with a drop shadow, produced at 30pt), this diagram shows an interesting technique for kerning Arabic’s many delicate features.
A kern, in the literal sense, is any part of a character that extends beyond the body. The more delicate a kern, the more likely it is to break off during use, and Arabic is among the world’s most sinewy scripts. To compensate, this typeface was cast with an especially long neck — the distance from the top-most printing surface (the face) to the non-printing surface below (the shoulder) — so that kerns would be stronger, and more fully supported by adjacent characters. A clever, simple solution.
Pop quiz: Arabic reads from right to left, and printing type is always reversed. Which end is the start of the line? If you’re disoriented, imagine the sixteenth century French and Flemish typefounders who produced some of the world’s finest Arabic typefaces, three hundred years before the invention of the mass-produced silvered-glass mirror. —JH
Valero Doval
Aurelius Battaglia: Saints and Sinners
Retronomatopoeia
scans of old comic book sound effects on Flickr
Fwis: Readymech Logo
Readymech is a flat-pack paper toy product which collaborates with dozens of artists from around the world, and has been featured in dozens of art and design publications from around the world.
Via FFFF
Tony Meeuwissen
Elizabeth Royte: Bottlemania
Vinatge Cycling Board Games
GIUOCO DEL VELODROMO
Italy, 1960s
STAP OP
Penco, Netherlands, 1950s (reissued by Goliath in 2003)
DIE FRIEDENSFAHRT
Gräfe Dresden, Eastern Germany, 1959
Nick Veasey: Xray photography
POOLGA
Paolo Lim: HELEN
July 15, 2008
Beatrix Potter Rarities
July 16, 2008
Flexibin: The minimalist waste can
Via CP
Rebecca Low: A.G. LOW CONSTRUCTION logo
Very nice
July 17, 2008
Feed Cycling Project
Because it feels like a friday ...
July 18, 2008
Herb Lubalin
Ken Garland: art editor for Design Magazine
Design Magazine June 1961
LE GUN
Eero Saarinen
TWA terminal
Eero Saarinen
1962
Batman movie posters
dolores on the dotted line
2 of clubs
July 22, 2008
Tools of the Trade
The first cuts of Trade Gothic were designed by Jackson Burke in 1948. He continued to work on further weights and styles until 1960 while he was director of type development for Mergenthaler-Linotype in the USA. Trade Gothic does not display as much unifying family structure as other popular sans serif font families, but this dissonance adds a bit of earthy naturalism to its appeal. Trade Gothic is often seen in combination with roman text fonts, and the condensed versions are popular in the newspaper industry for headlines.
Love this font, but "earthy naturalism" ?
Blindness Poster
Atmos Clock
The Atmos 561 Clock, made by Jaeger LeCoultre and designed by Mark Newson, is powered entirely by changes in temperature and sits inside a block of crystal for good measure. According to The Watchismo Times, a change in temperature of one degree celsius can power the clock for two days.
July 23, 2008
Setting Up A Baseline Grid
Check out this excellent write up on Typophile on how to setup a flexible baseline grid in Adobe InDesign. The author has set up the grid so that every baseline is 12pts apart. This is a good setting that gives you a few leading options to choose from, but someone commented below the article that theyâve setup a 3pt system, which in my opinion works very nicely. Having a baseline every 3 pts gives you great flexibility with leading allowing you to create typography that is more dynamic.
Anton Stankowski
linda peanberg
July 24, 2008
Beck's Bottle Art
Label artwork, Head 6, by Tom Price
SAM GREEN
July 25, 2008
Liten Ljus Lager
Via nucleardreamer via CP
John Nouanesing
Obama's Simulacra
A poster for Barack Obama窶冱 speech in Berlin
Le Labo
Via Dear Ada
July 28, 2008
tavis Coburn in The Desktop Wallpaper Project
July 30, 2008
Casa da abitare
Richard Stark (aka Donald E. Westlake)
Will Burton
Promotional material for the Vision conferences
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