I first learned about Swaptree through a presentation by one of our clients at TEDxSydney on the subject of Collaborative Consumption — itself the subject of her book, What’s Mine is Yours , for which we designed the web site.
I first...
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Graphic design posters to music videos instead of movies, events or books? That seems new. Italian designer Federico Mancosu has created a cool set of posters for tracks by such artists as Depeche Mode , Beck, The Chemical Brothers and Jamiroquai.
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In this article I present my personal list of recommendable books on signage, wayfinding and spatial cognition … Kevin Lynch: The Image of the City This book from 1960 is the result of a five-year study on how users perceive and organize spatial information...
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Canada Type has four new releases this week.
Canada Type has four new releases this week. One, Neil Bold, is a revival of a wonderful old Typositor face, originally designed in 1966 by Wayne Stettler; Sol Pro is a reworking of that classic science-fiction...
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http://eight48.com/ The second issue of Counter-Print’s newspaper, Eight:48, centers around the theme of ideas and inspiration. Titled, What’s the Big Idea?, it is forwarded by Roger Fawcett-Tang and contains original articles from Bruno...
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I was catching up on some reading recently and found this post on Pascal Zoghbi’s site, 29 letters , on the first printing press in the Middle East. There’s an interesting bit of history around its very existence in the Middle East at all....
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I was convinced I’d written about Shoe before, but it turns out I haven’t. Shoe, or Niels Shoe Meulman , is the master of calligraphic graffiti, creating the label for the artform of calligraffiti - also the name of his site.
I was convinced...
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A few weeks ago, Claus Eggers Sørensen tweeted about purchasing a used copy of James Moran’s Stanley Morison: His typographic achievement (1971).
A few weeks ago, Claus Eggers Sørensen tweeted about purchasing a used copy of James Moran’s...
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Oh, the challenges of photographing delicate paper goods. Dang it. Just trust me; these are really beautiful in person
Oh, the challenges of photographing delicate paper goods. Dang it. Just trust me; these are really beautiful in person.
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Abu Dhabi is the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Abu Dhabi is the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). However you may be more familiar with the world’s-tallest-tower-building, 7-star-hotel-opening, artificial-islands-in-the...
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