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Former MASS MoCA intern Danelle Cheney designed a new font name ‘SpragueFace’ based upon the modernist ephemera found on the site by previous tenant, Sprague Electric Co.
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by doug bartow
Today’s Occupy Wall Street poster by Oakland, CA’s R. Black is most impressive.
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by armin
The Hebrew Typography blog, edited by Oded Ezer, is quite fantastic, regardless of whether you read Hebrew or not. Great type is universal.
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by armin
Great series of posters by Simon C Page for the International Year of Chemistry.
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by armin
From the makers of Bacon Ipsum comes Bacon Mockup, providing placeholder images of everybody’s favorite element of the food pyramid.
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by armin
What do you get the person that has everything? A slipper with their photo on it, that’s what.
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by niki blaker
Filmmaker Kirby Ferguson (of Everything is a Remix fame) produced this video to visually demonstrate the potential dangers of the upcoming Protect IP Act.
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