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“Make me beautiful.” Esther Honig’s project Before & After provides intriguing insights into perception of feminine beauty around the world.
06.27.2014
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by armin
Snask has created a giant poster-slash-installation of a poster for the Malmö Festival, Scandinavia’s largest city festival. Lots of process photos at the link.
06.26.2014
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by armin
Craig Welsh wants to reprint the Declaration of Independence in the same timeline it was typeset and printed 238 years ago PLUS he is adding fragments from Revolutionary War cannon to the ink.
06.26.2014
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by armin
Kill Bill’s fight scenes recreated as a Castlevania-type 8-bit video game.
06.26.2014
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Fuzzco’s Pocket Art Director dice, now available in throwable, digital form. Addictive.
06.26.2014
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by armin
Andre Chiote celebrates the architecture of the 2014 World Cup stadiums.
06.26.2014
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by ricardo cordoba
Julian Koenig, copywriter extraordinaire, has passed away. Koenig worked with Helmut Krone on DDB’s famous VW ads of the late 1950s and early 1960s (“Think Small” and “Lemon” are two well-known examples from this campaign), and also, in 1970, came up with the name “Earth Day.”
Photo of Julian Koenig by Jack Manning/The New York Times.
06.26.2014
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by james i bowie
Slate’s William Morgan on the colorful past and sorry present state of U.S. license plate design.
06.25.2014
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by armin
Pornhub — if you need to ask, you shouldn’t be on the internet — has an open call for ad ideas. Some of them are actually quite amusing. For the most part, it’s SFW but I would proceed with caution.
06.25.2014
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by armin
Japanese train station stamps. Just click on anything that looks like a link and then enjoy.
06.25.2014
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