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by niki blaker
Stirring up some controversy among designers (and rightfully so) - Harvard Business Review seems to miss the mark on how to “manage creatives.”
04.08.2013
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by james i bowie
Nebraska’s Union Pacific Railroad Museum license plate has won the “Best Plate of 2012” award from the Automobile License Plate Collectors Association.
04.08.2013
no.
by doug bartow
“10 Over-The-Top Letters From The Alphabet” via the Onion. Hilarity.
04.08.2013
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by armin
For Beacon’s first LP “The Ways We Separate”, a limited edition 13-by-13-inch sculpture cast out of sugar will house the vinyl record. By sculptor Fernando Mastrangelo. Beats those sugar cubes from the 1980s.
04.08.2013
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by armin
Need a place to start gathering links for your new RSS reader (now that Google is killing Reader)? Hatch Inc. has set up Links to Inspire, with plenty of good leads.
04.08.2013
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by armin
An Animated GIF collection of the most ridiculous infomercial scenes where companies try to convince us we really need their products.
04.08.2013
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by armin
A small set of typographic slab plates with quotes by T.S. Eliot, Mumford & Sons, Gandhi, and the Greeks. Developed for a senior design thesis at Winthrop University by Savannah Holder.
04.08.2013
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by armin
What the defining elements of Mad Men characters would be it they were in 2013.
04.08.2013
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by doug bartow
The biggest stadium banner ever? 600m in length and 54m in height, it took more than 18 months to print.
04.05.2013
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