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by cole baldwin
The 2012 Typographic Games Poster Contest. Create a typographical poster about sports with a chance to win Olympic tickets and finally see that London 2012 logo up close and personal.
11.30.2011
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by cole baldwin
Monotype is set to aquire Bistream’s font business for $50M. This merger will include the MyFonts.com website and its 89,000 font library.
11.30.2011
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by james i bowie
Students at the Columbus College of Art and Design redesign Ohio’s license plate.
11.30.2011
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by armin
British soccer fans rejoice: “The hat takes its inspiration from a football chant. The full chant varies from club to club, but begins with: ‘We’re not going down and we’re not going up. We won’t win the league and we won’t win the cup…’.” I don’t quite get it, but I’m smitten by the typography and patterns.
11.30.2011
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by armin
Very cute and smart. ZigZag City Guides, proposed travel guide for kids by Alana Zawojski, the result of her thesis project at Academy of Art University.
11.30.2011
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by diane zerr
Presidencia Sans was created and built by Gabriel MartÃnez Meave for the Mexican Federal Government’s new identity program. It’s a handsome humanist sans-serif, and I want it.
11.29.2011
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by niki blaker
Designed by Saul Bass’s daughter Jennifer and written by design historian Pat Kirkham, Saul Bass: A Life in Film & Design contains more than 1,400 illustrations, many from the Bass archive and never published before.
11.29.2011
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