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Arkitypo by johnson banks is an alphabet produced in 3D printing featuring an A – Z of typefaces that have been ornately extruded in various, gorgeous ways. Shown: Trajan.
01.30.2012
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Photos of smoke bombs ignited in various location all over Europe, taken by Italian artist Filippo Minelli.
[Ed.’s Note: It’s like Lost’s smoke monster, but happier.]
01.30.2012
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The Wall Street Journal on Joel Beckerman, composer of “sonic logos.”
01.27.2012
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by diane zerr
Price tags are pretty boring, unless there’s a papercut dinosaur on it! By M J Lomax.
01.27.2012
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Pablo, the documentary on legendary film title designer Pablo Ferro premieres next week at the 41st Rotterdam International Film Festival. So eager to see this doc. More info at the link. And I interviewed the filmmakers about it back in 2008, here.
01.27.2012
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by armin
The Create-O-Mat by Gagarin, an app that “promotes lateral thinking which moves you outside established thinking patterns and stimulates creative thinking” by generating three seemingly random words.
01.27.2012
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This just in: The Atlantic reports that the Gmail logo was designed the night before the product launched and that the “G” is Google’s same “G” but the “ail” are set in sans serif, which I had never noticed. What it boils down to: the Gmail logo sucks.
01.27.2012
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Because it never gets old: fuzzy, close-up shots of letterpress in motion. “A short film about letterpress and one of the few remaining movable-type printing workshops in the UK, situated at Plymouth University, featuring Paul Collier.”
01.27.2012
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