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Kind of fascinating: Forensic artists draws women two times, once based on their own description, and the other based on a complete stranger’s description of the same woman. By Ogilvy Brazil for Dove.
04.17.2013
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With design graduate shows popping up left and right (and yours truly being inundated with requests to post all of them) it takes something clever to catch my attention: Here is a nice parallax scrolling, animated GIF-like web announcement for the Tyler School of Art’s Design MFA Thesis Exhibition titled “Good Measure”.
04.17.2013
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by armin
A handy infographic by Alex Cornell for the perfect location for your next date.
04.17.2013
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by doug bartow
In response to the tragic bombing of the Boston Marathon, United Pixelworkers is bringing back the original Boston / Local 617 shirt for one week, with all profits going to the American Red Cross of Eastern Massachusetts.
04.16.2013
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by armin
Dear lord, there goes the morning: David Levine’s intensely large collection of “Graphic Design from the 1920s and 1930s in Travel Ephemera.”
04.16.2013
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Photographer has fun during commute by placing newspaper photos on top of fellow commuters.
04.16.2013
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by armin
Clever use of Kickstarter: If you back “The Greatest Band Ever Print” by The Night Shift Design Co-Op you help build its content. $1 gets you 1 vote to nominate your favorite band and whichever bands get 1% or more of the vote will take 1 square or more out of the 100-squares grid.
04.16.2013
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by armin
Print ad campaign (two more at the link) by Leo Burnett Moscow for Leroy Merlin, a chain of hypermarkets, that dismantles the buildings that appear in Russian banknotes to illustrate all the stuff you can buy. See the original banknotes here.
04.16.2013
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by ricardo cordoba
Last night, NYC Light Brigade and The Illuminator used light projections outside of Brooklyn Academy of Music to display messages of support for Boston.
04.16.2013
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by armin
Daydreams & Nightschemes, a “self-initiated, real-time journey of 52 weeks focused on the creation of 52 new projects” by Jon Newman. Lots of good stuff to see. Shown: Writing “white” until it turns black.
04.15.2013
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