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Great series of ads for Fotolia, a European stock photo house setting up business in the U.S.. The copywriting is top-notch.
06.30.2011
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“Flavor”, “Gold”, and “Enjoy” by Camilo Rojas. A typographic installation using 3,400 cigarettes; McDonald’s french fries; and 18,000 nails that have been rusted with soda.
06.30.2011
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HandPaintedType is a fantastic project “dedicated to preserving the typographic practice of street painters around India”. They ask street painters to do an A – Z and 0 – 9 on a banner to archive and they are then digitizing some of the alphabets into beutiful layered fonts.
06.29.2011
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Ben Greenman at The New Yorker proposes three new naming options to rebrand Al Qaeda.
06.29.2011
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Joan Pons Moll a designer living in the Spanish island of Menorca is trying to run every character from the alphabet, capturing it with a GPS. So far “A” and “B” are done, check the project at Running Alphabet.
06.28.2011
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Judith G. Klausner has a fabulous series called “From Scratch” where she embroiders toast and Chex and sculpts Oreos.
06.28.2011
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