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by niki blaker
A set of travel posters featuring the locations of comic book heroes. By Chicago designer Justin Van Genderen.
12.10.2010
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by josh berta
Illustrator James Hance gives us a clever and adorable mash-up of Star Wars and Winnie the Pooh.
12.09.2010
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by josh berta
Christopher Nolan’s diagram of the layered dream sequence from his film Inception.
Makes sense now, right?
12.09.2010
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by doug bartow
Comedy Central rolls out a new logo using, what else, a funny video.
12.09.2010
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by diane zerr
Interesting new university project; A font-browsing UI using the API of MyFonts.com. It has a random effect and you can rollover each example for more information.
Only supports Safari or Chrome browsers.
12.09.2010
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by josh berta
Stephen Colbert invites Steve Martin to appraise his portrait as art. Frank Stella, Shephard Fairey, and Andres Serrano stop by to add value to it.
Genius.
12.09.2010
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by niki blaker
Noun Project’s goal is to create a visual collection of public domain symbols in hopes to promote a visual language “that can be understood by all cultures and people.”
12.09.2010
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by armin
“Edits” is a poster series where “each designer was asked to represent a musical genre using one element and one typeface (stating the genre).”
12.09.2010
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