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Beautiful, close-up photographs by Marcelo Pena Costa of the specific screws used to hang the more significant art pieces at the recent ArtRio, Rio de Janeiro’s international art fair.
12.04.2013
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Great gift idea: A tiny (less then 2 square inches) book of 24 Instagram photos with a magnetic back cover to latch to fridge. Set of 3 for a mere $10.
12.03.2013
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Chevrolet ads in Brazil using reproduction techniques usually reserved for bills and checks arguably make them the “world’s most valuable ads”.
12.03.2013
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The Perfect Capital, a novel by Karen Healey Wallace is a celebration of letterforms, is a stunning piece of book design and typography “designed and typeset in accordance with Eric Gill’s ‘An Essay on Typography’”.
12.03.2013
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Noramoji, literally stray text, is a project resulting in unique fonts made out of retro Japanese storefronts. Go to the link for the interactive website and to the via for more information.
12.03.2013
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Federico Babina’s Archicine is a series of posters paying tribute to iconic buildings in film.
12.03.2013
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Actual burgers inspired by the pun-y-named Burger of the Day shown on the animated show Bob’s Burgers. See this blog for captures of the names and the link for the burgers.
12.02.2013
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This is reportedly the first selfie ever, in 1839 by Robert Cornelius. Related: “Selfie” was recently assigned as 2013’s Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year.
12.02.2013
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A nice nod to these 1871 illustrations by Alphonse de Neuville and Édouard Riou
for Jules Verne’s “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea”.
12.02.2013
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