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Light sabers by Y Studios for a handful of product design luminaries. Shown: Dieter Rams.
12.20.2015
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Beyond This Point, a new podcast from the folks at Civilization that takes advantage of chatting with some of the great speakers that come visit their Design Lecture Series in Seattle.
12.18.2015
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This is not a Newsletter has the worst pitch so I totally subscribed.
12.18.2015
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An assignment on practicing calligraphy in Arabic angered some students and parents, and in turn resulted in a Virginia school to close. News outlets immediately picked up the story furthering its reach. It’s a sad state when children can’t learn about another visual culture.
12.18.2015
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Afterhours just wrapped up its initial effort that pairs a jury-selected group of creatives and a charity to come up with a theme for the creatives to make some prints that benefit the charity. The 30 finalists worked around the theme of food, benefitting Capital Area Food Bank of Texas. (Disclaimer: I was one of the judges).
12.17.2015
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For all of 2015, Timo Meyer has been drawing one wagon/car a day for this very-long-horizontally-scrolling train.
12.17.2015
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Simple premise, easy user interface: Poop on Trump by Gabe Ferreira. After you are done Emoji’ing it up, you can tweet your image directly to Trump.
12.17.2015
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Another element of the Star Wars universe making a comeback for Episode VII is the use of ITC Serif Gothic in the logo and other materials. Yves Peters breaks it down.
12.16.2015
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