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by doug bartow
Jack Hunter’s cover for next week’s The New Yorker is fantastic.
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Chronicling the most curious, creative, and notable projects, stories, and events of the graphic design industry on a daily basis.
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• Quipsologies, is a division of UnderConsideration, chronicling the most curious, creative, and notable projects, stories, and events of the graphic design industry on a daily basis.
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Brand New / Displaying opinions, and focusing solely, on corporate and brand identity work.
FPO (For Print Only) / Celebrating the reality that print is not dead by showcasing the most compelling printed projects.
Brand New Classroom / Providing a space for critique and opinions on student identity work.
Speak Up (2002 – 2009) / Discussing, and looking for, what is relevant in, and the relevance of, graphic design. Archives Only.
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publishing
Flaunt: Designing effective, compelling and memorable portfolios of creative work / 2010, self-published.
Graphic Design, Referenced: A Visual Guide to the Language, Applications, and History of Graphic Design / 2009, Rockport.
Women of Design: Influence and Inspiration from the Original Trailblazers to the New Groundbreakers / 2008, HOW Books.
The Word It Book: Speak Up Presents a Gallery of Interpreted Words / 2007, HOW Books.
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Jack Beveridge and Joshua Lake asked some 8-year-olds to draw a chair. Then they started bringing them to life.
06.28.2013
Wonderful, 7,500-square-foot exhibition by Pentagram’s Natasha Jen for their 40-year retrospective at the Ningbo Design Biennial.
06.28.2013
Fun and ambitious student project by Ryan Tempro and Kristie Feltner of a promotion for Delta: a 4-by-8-foot board covered in 2,000 nails and 1,247 yards of red, blue and white yarn. Photos and more info at the link.
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The colorful admissions button for New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is going the way of the subway token, due to rising costs and the flexibility of a new paper ticket with a detachable sticker. On the upside, the museum will now be open 7 days a week. The new ticket system and schedule begin this Monday.
06.27.2013
The video itself is crummy but it’s about Let’s Caffe in Taiwan that allows clients to snap a selfie, send it to the coffee-making machine, which then prints out the photo on the foam of the latte. So, yeah, watch the video.
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Famous movie locations, like Avatar’s Pandora, recreated as classic, mid-century travel posters by Studio Muti for Ster-Kinekor Theaters in South Africa.
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The winners of the 50 Books/50 Covers have been announced. (It was nice of Design Observer to save this competition from extinction but the presentation of this is so underwhelming).
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Yup, those are Narwhal barbecue skewers. By Melissa Dowell on Kickstarter. Worth kicking in just for the t-shirts.
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