Les Mousquetaires (The Musketeers), is a leading French super and hypermarket chain founded in 1969, employing 130,000 people across Europe in over 4,000 stores, with a turnover of €35 million (US$47 million) in 2008. The name is, of course, a direct...
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The Universit? Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris3 (University of the New Sorbonne Paris3) is one of the premier liberal arts and humanities universities in France, it is located in the literary, intellectual heart of Paris in St. Germain des Pr?s. Established...
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I gave myself a deadline of January 15 to do a recap of identity work in the 2000s, assuming that it wouldn’t be an editorial faux pas to do a list of this sort well into the new year. So here it is
I gave myself a deadline of January 15 to do...
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In a lecture that he gave at Sligo in 1962 the Yeats scholar Edward Malins traced the poet’s own shifting attitude in 1916 to the events that had taken place in Dublin in April, and his attempts during the months that followed to find words for his...
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It’s no secret that the 2010 Olympics are striving to be the greenest to date. And with the recent unveiling of the Leaf, Nissan’s new mass-produced electric car, Vancouver finds itself positioned as the first Canadian city to see this verdant...
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The letter R in any of Gill’s types is unmistakeably his own: the tail springs from the relatively small upper bowl with a dynamic curve and then, straightening, continues at an angle to the base line below, which it meets with a flat terminal, sometimes...
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I thought I’d mentioned pub signs before here, but clearly not. For anyone interested in typography and lettering, pub signs are a great source of inspiration and ideas.
I thought I’d mentioned pub signs before here, but clearly not. For...
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CR is currently cursing the fact that it will not be present in Beijing for the Icograda World Design Congress - looks a great line-up Confirmed speakers for the event, which runs, along with Beijing Design Week, from October 24 to 30, so far include...
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Diary editor Johanna Agerman | johanna@icon-magazine.co.uk ICON MINDS: THE ESSENTIAL TALKS 14 OCTOBER Icon leaps off the page and into a former garage for our first-ever symposium: Icon Minds, in association with Austin-Smith: Lord.
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British designer Adam Morris has updated his website with some new work.
British designer Adam Morris has updated his website with some new work.
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