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by armin
Unit Editions keeps making amazing books: Next up, TD 63-73, on the work of one of the most influential Dutch studios, Total Design.
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by joe marianek
id29’s 29 Things Young Designers Need to Know (and aren’t always taught in design school) poster is a must have for design students. For sale at Felt and Wire.
02.16.2011
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by armin
A step-by-step of how the Daily Titan put together an issue… in 1970. Galleys FTW!
02.16.2011
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by doug bartow
Product design epic fail: ‘Wheelmate Laptop Steering Wheel Desk.’ Be sure to scroll over the customer images and read the hilarious reviews on the linked Amazon.com product page.
02.16.2011
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by armin
Tablet magazine takes a wonderful look at the revival by designer Scott-Martin Kosofsky of a sixteenth-century Hebrew typeface that will debut on the digital publication of The Selected Poems of Yehuda Halevi. As Kosofsky says, “For more people to see good type on the screen, is surely a mitzvah.” Amen.
02.15.2011
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by armin
Renderings of vintage ABC Television logos, reportedly found by an employee of ABC in “an old 8.5 by 11 Kodak box in a storage room near the art department at ABC Television in New York.”
02.15.2011
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by armin
Cracked brings you the ultimate “Logo Design Primer.” Slightly NSFW.
02.15.2011
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by josh berta
The Voynich manuscript is a handwritten book thought to have been written in the early 15th century. The author, script, and language remain unknown. For these reasons it has been described as “the world’s most mysterious manuscript”.
02.15.2011
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by doug bartow
Argentinean photographer Irina Werning invited her friends to re-enact poses from photos of their pasts to incredible results. (via Tan Le)
02.15.2011
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by armin
A titillating typographic and linguistic examination of 69 Magazine Cover Lines that will BLOW your Mind. By us.
02.15.2011
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