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by doug bartow
.@Dan_Cassaro with a pretty entertaining response to being asked to do design work for free. #nospec
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by armin
German collective kurzgesagt — which loosely translates to “long story short” — makes excellent pithy videos about anything worth explaining.
08.12.2014
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by armin
Groovy series of silkscreen posters by Alex Szabo-Haslam visualising classic dance music from 1977 to 2001. New range of posters currently on Kickstarter.
08.12.2014
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by armin
Hamish Smyth and Jesse Reed from Pentagram NY will be tweeting one page a day of Massimo Vignelli’s New York City Transit Authority’s Graphic Standards Manual through @standardsmanual.
08.12.2014
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by armin
Zero Freitas, a 62-year-old owner of a highly successful bus company in Brazil, has been buying up large collections of vinyl records to add to this multi-million-strong collection. Great photo by Sebastán Liste/Noor, for The New York Times.
08.11.2014
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by armin
Highly sensuous (artistically speaking) close-ups of paint, paint brushes, and canvases.
08.11.2014
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by james i bowie
Thomas Miller, a pioneering African-American designer who was the grandson of slaves and who helped create Motorola’s “batwing” logo for Chicago’s Morton Goldsholl Associates, has died at 91.
Ed.’s Note: Apologies for any confusion. The linked article is from 2012 not 2014. Still, the facts remain: he did die at 91 and did create said logos. — AV
08.10.2014
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by armin
Great photographic series by Javier Laspiur of 30 years of video game controllers.
08.08.2014
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