Extra servings of goodness in this edition of Quipsologies.

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Alan Fletcher, founder of Pentagram and Fletcher Forbes Gill, passed away this past Thursday. Creative Review is encouraging those who knew him to contribute thoughts, tributes, stories and remembrances. We extend our sympathy to his family and those who knew Mr. Fletcher.

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(More or less) separated at birth: Bob Dylan’s Modern Times and Luna’s Hedgehog.

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Featured in Print magazine, the motion capture work of OpenEnded. Some are almost haunting.

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Some poor trees suffer the wrath of obstructed advertising.

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A first in design publishing: The Best of Church Marketing. Call for entries here.

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These contraptions have double-dipping written all over them.

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Have you drawn a Mickey Mouse today? [Thanks to Josh B. for the link]

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New Orleans as It Was: Sketchbook Drawings 1988-Hurricane Katrina is a little marvel of a book by Mark Andresen (aka Pesky Illustrator). Edited and designed by Rudy VanderLans.

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Yet one more design magazine launches a blog: HOWBlog.

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It is that time of the year: Coroflot is gathering information for their annual salary survey.

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For our numerously vast readership in Venice, Italy: Teach Me 3. It’s free to attend and we are happy to say that we will be participating by talking about what know best: Blogs.

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Seattle’s General Public launches a new website and shares their theories on branding their own studio under School of Thought.

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The second issue of Varoom is due any day now. If you haven’t subscribed yet, now’s a good time.

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Feast your eyes on Nikon’s winners of Small World. 1st Place went to Dr. Paul Appleton’s 740x photo of the Cell Nuclei of a Mouse Colon.

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The Art Directors Club PodCast on Designism is available for download here.

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The Rosa Parks Place Community Transit Center opened in Charlotte September 18. NC State’s Chandra Cox, department chair and associate professor of Art + Design, led the project.

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Let design collaborative This is Real Art tempt your design tastebuds with their New Work.

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Sven Nykvist, the acclaimed cinematographer who shot Ingmar Bergman’s greatest films — as well as Andrei Tarkovsky’s Offret. — passed away last week at the age of 83.

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At fifteen seconds after 9:41 a.m., on September 11, 2001, a photographer named Richard Drew took a picture of a man falling through the sky — falling through time as well as through space. The picture went all around the world, and then disappeared, as if we willed it away. One of the most famous photographs in human history became an unmarked grave, and the man buried inside its frame — the Falling Man — became the Unknown Soldier in a war whose end we have not yet seen. Richard Drew’s photograph is all we know of him, and yet all we know of him becomes a measure of what we know of ourselves. The picture is his cenotaph, and like the monuments dedicated to the memory of unknown soldiers everywhere, it asks that we look at it, and make one simple acknowledgment.

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Worried about taking your expensive camera on a plane? Pack it with a gun!

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Yale Professor of Constitutional Law Jack M. Balkin has made his book Cultural Software: A Theory of Ideology available in PDF form.

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The complete first printing of Andrew Sullivan’s new book The Conservative Soul had to be scrapped when Sullivan discovered the fifth and sixth chapters were out of order. The Mahablog has an idea how this could have happened.

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The Sun, an appreciation.

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Yes, there was something that President Warren G. Harding was good at: doodling.

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The saga of Saw III, the Red Cross and three sexy nurses.

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“Bull” Scuptor sees red.

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Square America is a great online gallery of vintage and vernacular photography.

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Maybe it was oversight, but for some reason, I didn’t receive a MacArthur grant either.

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Great moments in campus signage.

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Clamor Mag vs. American Apparel

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Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill-bucket: Audrey Hepburn version.

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Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill-bucket: Bentley version.

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There was hardly a soul in the firm who was not perfectly well aware that publicity — advertising — is the dirtiest ramp that capitalism has yet produced. In the red lead firm there had still lingered certain notions of commercial honour and usefulness. But such things would have been laughed at in the New Albion. Most of the employees were the hard-boiled, Americanized, go-getting type to whom nothing in the world is sacred, except money. They had their cynical code worked out. The public are swine; advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill-bucket. And yet beneath their cynicism there was the final naivete, the blind worship of the money-god. Gordon studied them unobtrusively. As before, he did his work passably well and his fellow-employees looked down on him. Nothing had changed in his inner mind. He still despised and repudiated the money-code. Somehow, sooner or later, he was going to escape from it; even now, after his first fiasco, he still plotted to escape. He was in the money world, but not of it. As for the types about him, the little bowler-hatted worms who never turned, and the go-getters, the American business-college gutter-crawlers, they rather amused him than not. He liked studying their slavish keep-your-job mentality. He was the chiel amang them takin’ notes. — George Orwell, “Keep the Aspidistra Flying”

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This past Saturday marked the 80th anniversary of John Coltrane’s birth. We’ve quipped this before, but you can never have too much Coltrane — Michael Levy’s interpretation of “Giant Steps.”

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