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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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Graphic Design, Referenced: A Visual Guide to the Language, Applications, and History of Graphic Design / 2009, Rockport.

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by doug bartow

Jack Hunter’s cover for next week’s The New Yorker is fantastic.

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06.28.2013

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by armin

Jack Beveridge and Joshua Lake asked some 8-year-olds to draw a chair. Then they started bringing them to life.

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06.28.2013

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by armin

Wonderful, 7,500-square-foot exhibition by Pentagram’s Natasha Jen for their 40-year retrospective at the Ningbo Design Biennial.

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06.28.2013

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by armin

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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06.28.2013

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by ricardo cordoba

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.

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06.27.2013

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by armin

Cross-section photos of different kinds of bullets by Sabine Pearlman.

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06.27.2013

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Kottke

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by armin

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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06.27.2013

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by armin

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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06.27.2013

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Coudal

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by armin

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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06.27.2013

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by armin

Yup, those are Narwhal barbecue skewers. By Melissa Dowell on Kickstarter. Worth kicking in just for the t-shirts.

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06.27.2013

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