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by niki blaker
A Flickr set featuring the colorful and beautifully designed manhole covers in Japan.
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by armin
Free FreeHand is a new organization devoted to getting Freehand, a software they call ” quite possibly the best vector drawing application ever made,” back on the market and launched a class action antitrust lawsuit against Adobe for neglecting to update the software and raising the price on Illustrator. Get the full story here. More at the link.
05.16.2012
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by armin
An excellent new series of stamps for the Royal Mail by johnsonbanks, Great British Fashion, featuring 10 original iconic outfits from 10 different designers.
05.15.2012
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by armin
To celebrate the release today of Diablo III, a “dark fantasy/horror-themed action role-playing game,” Alex Griendling has created five banners, one for each of the game’s heroes. I have know what I just wrote and skulls and blades ain’t my thing, but these are really nicely done.
05.15.2012
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by armin
Tommaso Guerra likes to draw letters on the street with chalk, and other fun things.
05.15.2012
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by doug bartow
AMC TV’s ‘The Pitch’ take a detailed look into the creative and business development processes of ad agencies as they try to win new accounts, but is the show just a high-production value spec contest? It’s hard to argue otherwise when the show itself describes next Wednesday’s episode as, “The Ad Store and Kovel/Fuller Agency compete for the Frangelico liqueur brand in hopes of generating big business.”
The words ‘compete’ and ‘hopes’ always raise a red flag with me. Is the TV exposure here enough PR to justify this type of competition to win business, or do these contests—televised or not— devalue our industry as a whole.
Comments are open, what do you think?
05.14.2012
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by joe marianek
What Book Should I Read is a simple and brilliant pro-reading public service by RISD graduate student Dinah Fried.
05.14.2012
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