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January 2009 Archives
January 1, 2009
Keri Smith: the Uniform
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Perfumaria Balsemão Anúncio
Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective
January 3, 2009
Compost Modern
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Leah Evans Textiles
Artist's statement
My quilted wall hangings consist of layers of the following techniques: appliqué, reverse appliqué, piecing, natural and synthetic dyeing, needle-felting, hand printing, and a variety of embroidery stitches. There is an overall balance between hand and machine work.
My current work combines aerial photography, maps, and satellite imagery. I also find myself drawn to the more minute systems of the microbial world. I enjoy the play in scale between magnified microbial life forms and remote sensing images of huge tracts of land. Both scales deal with the translation of scientific information into a visual form. At times these separate bodies of work merge. The overlap is seen in vessel-like arteries of water, tundra pools that look cellular, and microbes that swim through topographic lines.
It is the use of maps in organizing our ideas of land that interests me most of all. Often people ask me for specifics about the places and symbols in my work. Most of my pieces are not consciously based on specific places. For me they are intimate explorations of map language and imagined landscapes. Through my research and experience I have decided that maps create more questions than they answer.
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HMK Perpetually Dayzed Calendar
SupaKali: Night Photography - LA
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Magdalena Czarnecki
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January 4, 2009
profanities, expletives, vulgarisms, obscenities, execrations, epithets and imprecations
The New York Times William Saphire looks into the use and misuse of profanities, expletives, vulgarisms, obscenities, execrations, epithets and imprecations. Fabulous article.
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January 5, 2009
Chaino: Afro Cha Cha: Record label
Jakob Nylund - Formconspiracy: Just—My—Type
Just—My—Type™ is a side project of designer Jakob Nylund / Formconspiracy. All typefaces are free to download and free to use without any restrictions. Most of them are only available in Illustrator AI format and the capital letters A-Z are the only characters that exist if nothing else is stated.
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pleasebestill: Modern Design Deck Poster
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Frank Chimero
--> SwissMiss -->A CUP OF JO
January 6, 2009
Nick and Tom: Lomo Accidents
--> Design Milk
January 8, 2009
Nelson Balaban aka XTRABOLD
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Ampersand Issue 1
matus prochaczka: snow scooter concept
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olson sundberg kundig allen architects
rolling huts, 2007
image © tim bies
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Heart Fish: Live What You Love
GM: Futurliner
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Pierre Martin Vielcazat
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Shepard Fairey : Inaugural Art
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Mark Simonson: The Lost Art of Type Spec'ing
There was never any question that the spacing and quality would be anything but perfect. None of this had to be stated in the “specs” unless something unusual was called for, like the note near the bottom that says “K 1/2 U” meaning “kern one half unit.” The finished “repro” would still need to be cut up and pasted into position on illustration board before it could be printed.
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January 11, 2009
Neil Gavin: 5x4
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The Vignelli Canon
If somehow you've not been surfing the usual suspects over the last week, or you just haven't found it important enough to look at yet, stop and download this if you care about typography and graphic design at all.
--> just about every desisn blog on the planet (CPluv has the best pictures yet, that's why I posted theirs)
Arctic Survival | Desert Survival | Jungle Survival | Sea Survival
January 12, 2009
Porsche Design: Aluminium sledge
#153. Lebedev's pyramid
1937 Bugatti Type 57s
Hanna von Goeler: My Money, My Currency
Bob Gill:
Forget All The Rules You Ever Learned About Graphic Design
Forget All The Rules You Ever Learned About Graphic Design by Bob Gill is a brilliant book. Independent, unorthodox and outspoken, he has designed for Apple Corps records, Rainbow Theater, Pirelli, Nestlé, CBS, Universal Pictures, and the United Nations.
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Tes One: Danny Print
--> Grain Edit
January 13, 2009
Sundayland: Table Phone
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January 14, 2009
Abe
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Jon Harrison: Dual-Purpose
We scan our surroundings looking for tools to help assist us complete tasks. When designing, I believe it’s important not only to focus on the product itself but to also concentrate on the environment in which the item will live, taking inspiration not only from the function of the object but also from all the varying components which surround and interlock with the product. The amalgamation of ready-mades and sketched ideas are designed to show a group of possible ‘double products’ which are aimed at reducing the scanning of the environment. They are not necessarily about big change but my aim is to allow the consumer to act effortlessly and unconsciously.
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Things Magazine: Books: a collection of cover art
The Styron Story, published by British Resin Products Ltd, 1960
Plastics in Building, Published by ICI, early 1960s
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Studio Mauerer Hendrichs: Three Sixty Table [2005]
pierre mendell 1929 -2008
'the new collection of book design', exhibition in switzerland, 1994
all images © die neue sammlung, 2008
pierre mendell one of the world's leading graphic designers died on 19 december 2008, in munich aged 79. for almost 30 years he played a role in creating the visual identity of the neue sammlung - the international design museum munich. shortly before his death he designed a poster for an event to be held at the museum in february 2009.
design process auto' by pierre mendell, 1986
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House 42 [friends]: Dioptical - FontStruct Font
An optical trick applied to the Escaptionist font, the one used to write the watermark on our blog pictures.
January 16, 2009
Paul Driver | Social UK: Human Worldwide logo
Human Worldwide is a music and sound design initiative, creating work for commercials, film, television and culture. The Human logo was designed by Paul Driver, of London-based design firm, Social UK.
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PEANUTS 1969
January 17, 2009
Joseph Priestley: Experiments and observations on different kinds of air, vol. 2
January 18, 2009
TDA: Special Olympics
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January 19, 2009
Quote: Paul Rand
"Simplicity is not the goal.
It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.”
—Paul Rand
Shepard Fairey: Barack Obama
Hedi Slimane: Diary
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January 21, 2009
denull: Lost in typography
January 22, 2009
David Winter: New York City Subway Destination Scrolls
claire l d'aoust: signs
A project chronicling the life of person living through the gentrification of a neighborhood.
January 23, 2009
Vintage Mattel Tuff Stuff Alphabet
January 26, 2009
lunchbots: filmmakerbot
The Birth of Lunchbots
Since April of 2008, I’ve been mostly telecommuting. I started packing my wife and step-son’s lunches (our daughter prefers to buy her lunch at school). After a while of doing that, I started putting notes in their lunches. One day, I decided to put doodles on their bags. ... I decided to call them Lunchbots because they are robots drawn on lunch bags. (I suppose that goes without saying, but I say things that go without saying all the time.) I’ve been posting daily updates of Lunchbots pretty much since then.
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The Times: Saturday Review reformat
"a great sheet of newsprint, only really safely navigated at home on the Saturday breakfast table."
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Peter Miller: Polaroid Self Portrait, 90 Polaroids, 2007
In this project, Polaroids are removed from their case in a darkroom, laid flat and exposed as a single, light sensitive array. After they are exposed, they are reinserted into the pack and –with the lens now covered- can be processed by simply pressing the camera's shutter and processing the film by ejecting it from the camera. By separating one-step photography into two irreducible steps of photochemical photography: exposure and chemical process, I disrupt the authority and authenticity inherent to Polaroid imaging. I am able to disorient an audience's preconceived understanding of how the world around them works.
--> Lined & Unlined --> Buffet _> Peter Miller - On Polaroid: magical mechanics and the altar of objecthood
January 27, 2009
Sharad Haksar: Camera Lens Calender
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Anton Stankowski: Logo Deutsche Bank
Mytton Williams Design: Pencil Calendar
The calendar consists of 12 pencils, one for each month and color coded to indicate the temperature. Days of the week are sharpened off.
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January 28, 2009
Dan Funderburgh: New Hope Assembly of God
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E Morel: Grand Alphabet Amusant' ~1890
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Rex Design Studio: Meu pai nåo mora mais aqui
brazilian rex design studio created an unusual graphic project for 'leituras descoladas' published by editora biruta - a brazilian publishing house who specialize in children’s and early teen’s books. the collection is based on 6 books, each one written by a different author. the studio had in mind to create more than just a visual treatment or a series of regular illustrations. each book brings a parallel visual narrative, almost in a cinematographic way, subverting what we know as an early teen’s publication. 'our idea was to propose a new paradigm of teen literature, more adjusted to their visual repertory and, at the narrative', says gustavo piqueira of rex studio.
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Cannon 50mm F0.95 lens
January 29, 2009
Hugo and Marie: Cushnie et Ochs
January 30, 2009
Ted Chung: A Thousand Words
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Ettubrute: Glowing Cities Under a Nighttime Sky
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January 31, 2009
The Design Auction at St Bride
The Design Auction 09 is being held in collaboration with the St Bride Library in London - the event will be held at the Library and we will be donating half the proceeds to the Library.
The St Bride Foundation relies upon donations to carry out its work and keep its doors open. They provide lectures, performances, lessons and activities for all ages and interests and keep the St Bride Printing Library open free of charge.
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