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by armin

Celebration of Imperfection, a new podcast by Steve Carsella “focusing on the background, motivation and process of creative folks in the (mostly) commercial arts. We design, write, draw, think, and/or pretend for a living. Or at least I do. Are we narcissists? Are we masochists? Maybe both with a healthy dash of mood-swings to boot? Are we jocks? Geeks? Gearheads? (Is that still a thing?) Are we nerds with an unhealthy compulsion to shout out the typeface being used in the title sequence during the movie? Baskerville Italic!”

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by armin

Cute, highly local project with potential to catch on: The Lakes Community Health Center has set up hand washing stations for local county fairs in an effort to promote hand washing and hygiene. They worked with WestmorelandFlint to brand and create a campaign for these portable handwash stations which they nicknamed, Jean. “If a port-a-potty can have a name, why not give these hand-washing stations an identity, too?”

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by armin

An experimental 3D typographic poster for a local band using paper cut-out lyrics which create the form of a bison’s head, by Herman Chaneco. Impressive.

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A gorgeous decorative alphabet version of Bodoni Poster produced by Nigel Bents, Paul Oakley and Jonny Holmes at Chelsea College of Art & Design. Designed digitally, laser cut, and then printed at the New North Press, Hoxton. See final print at the link.

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