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Who Arted? Framing a Curatorial Intervention

Who Arted? Framing a Curatorial Intervention

What with all this Occupy _______ going on, it’s easy to forget the many other messages and demonstrations we pass by on our daily routines. If you’re familiar with the Brooklyn Navy Yards, you’ve likely seen a funny blue fish head... 

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Type held in the hand

Type held in the hand

Type, as we know, is something that you can pick up and hold in your hand. But there are fewer opportunities for doing this now than ever before, and our fading familiarity with the way type was made in the past can make for puzzles that are not easy... 

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D&AD’s 50th awards

D&AD’s 50th awards

D&AD ‘s famous award scheme has been running since 1962, and so to celebrate and also to encourage entries to its 50th awards, the organisation has created a kind of greatest hits video, highlighting winners from the last half century…... 

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CR Annual 2012

CR Annual 2012

The deadline for the next Creative Review Annual, our international showcase of the pick of the year’s creative work, is December 12. And we also have some judges to tell you about The Creative Review Annual is our major awards scheme. It showcases... 

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Rian Hughes at Typo Circle

Rian Hughes at Typo Circle

Type designer, illustrator and writer Rian Hughes will be giving the next Typographic Circle lecture, on November 24 Hughes is one of the UK’s most prolific and multitalented designers, turning his hand variously to type design, illustration and... 

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Welcome to Brand USA

Welcome to Brand USA

Forget the old Red, White and Blue: America is to sell itself to the world via a multicoloured, ‘percolating’ logo by The Brand Union, launched yesterday Back in 2001, the Bush Administration famously brought in JWT’s Charlotte Beers... 

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Rand v Jobs: when egos collide

Rand v Jobs: when egos collide

Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs is full of examples of the latter’s ‘challenging’ behaviour. But when Jobs asked Paul Rand to create the identity for his Next business, he finally met his match Isaacson’s book... 

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Mill Co and Monotype’s type-tastic art show

Mill Co and Monotype’s type-tastic art show

Creative agency Mill Co teamed up with Monotype Imaging and tasked a selection of image makers to create artworks using one are all of three Monotype fonts – Akko, Neue Haas Grotesk, and Rotis II. The resulting exhibition runs at the Mill Co Project... 

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The Guardian iPad App

The Guardian iPad App

The Guardian now has an iPad app . Previously if you wanted to read Guardian content on an iPad you could read the website , use the iPhone app or attempt the Digital Edition . I used to subscribe to the Digital Edition, a downloadable PDF of the paper... 

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Beam me up, Jim

Beam me up, Jim

In 1795, Jacob Beam sold his first barrel of whiskey in Kentucky. 216 years later, Beam Inc. is the fourth largest spirits company in the world producing and distributing some of the most well known spirit brands like the eponymous Jim Beam, Maker’s... 

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