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The Alphabet 100 project: Christopher Rouleau draws 100 sketches of one letter in the alphabet each week. He just completed uppercase A – Z.
07.09.2012
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50 reasons not to date a graphic designer. Some of these are lame or artist clichés, but others are painfully accurate and hilarious.
07.09.2012
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Designed Space, a new site by Billy Heemer and Michael Warren devoted to the offices of design and creative agencies from around the world. Shown: Moodley Brand Identity in Vienna.
07.09.2012
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Just in time for the Running of the Bulls, a collection of posters promoting the Festival of San FermÃn.
07.07.2012
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If you enjoyed Quip No. 19 below, here is another range of explorations for The Amazing Spiderman by iamalwayshungry.
07.06.2012
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After hovering over many young and old designers who are slow at using software, I find this pretty handy: a series of wallpapers with keyboard shortcuts to Adobe programs. Seriously people, the faster you move the master you’ll become.
07.06.2012
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This is amazing. The Evil Eye is a project by Belgium collective Indianen where sound waveforms are silkscreened on a record and when it’s played back they are translated by a custom electric device into music. Looks gorgeous. Sounds creepy.
07.06.2012
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Flatmade has acquired the rights to reproduce some gorgeous posters created by Container Corporation of America as part of its Chicago Cultural Communication Project in the mid 1960s. The posters are being reprinted in silkscreen in editions of 100.
07.06.2012
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Awesome presentation of typographic studies by iamalwayshungry for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
07.05.2012
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