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Phil Baines on remembering, the French way

Phil Baines on remembering, the French way

~ While Alistair is away cycling the length of Great Britain , we’ve invited twenty disgustingly talented people to each write a post for our blog. Today’s post is from the redoubtable Phil Baines : designer, writer, teacher, and cyclist ~... 

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David Pearson on Phillumeny

David Pearson on Phillumeny

~ While Alistair is away cycling the length of Great Britain , we’ve invited twenty disgustingly talented people to each write a post for our blog. ~ While Alistair is away cycling the length of Great Britain, we’ve invited twenty disgustingly... 

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Hapshash takes a trip back to London

Hapshash takes a trip back to London

Julie Felix at the Albert Hall silkscreen, April 1968, (shown left); The Soft Machine Turns On (right) Artist Nigel Waymouth ‘s mind expanding poster work of the 1960s is set to fill the Idea Generation Gallery in the retrospective, Hapshash... 

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Brand New Conference, Q&A with Jonathan Notaro

Brand New Conference, Q&A with Jonathan Notaro

One of the givens we had when we started planning the speaker line-up for the Brand New Conference was that we wanted someone to represent the fields of animation and motion graphics as they apply to identity and branding. Television is one of the greatest... 

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The cut and thrust of a new mark for fencing

The cut and thrust of a new mark for fencing

Hoping to broaden the appeal of fencing in the run up to the Olympics, studio Shaw+Skerm has designed a great visual identity for a campaign to help promote the sport in the UK… British Fencing approached the London studio to create a visual identity... 

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Designing the Fun Out of Smoking

Designing the Fun Out of Smoking

This new packaging concept for cigarettes from recent UK design graduates Jennifer Noon and Sarah Shaw is in response to the British government’s controversial proposal for plain packaging , which purports that bland and generic cigarette packages... 

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Talbot Baines Reed, typefounder and sailor

Talbot Baines Reed, typefounder and sailor

Talbot Baines Reed was born in 1852 and he died in 1893, a sadly premature death for someone who might in later years have been able to contribute even more than he did to our knowledge of the history of his trade, which was that of typefounder. Talbot... 

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New typeface: Bella from Face37

New typeface: Bella from Face37

British designer Rick Banks of Face37 has just released his latest typeface, Bella, designed, he tells us, in the classical French Didot style, but based on letterforms by Herb Lubalin, John Pistilli and Jan Tschichold. Featuring extremely thin hairlines,... 

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Core77 Design Awards COUNTDOWN: Transportation Design

Core77 Design Awards COUNTDOWN: Transportation Design

Top, from L to R: Lars Holme Larsen, Jens Martin Skibsted, Frederik Otteson; bottom, from L to R: Nille Juul-S?rensen, Kristian Von Bengtman, Peter Ingwersen Over the next week we’ll be giving you a 24-hour reminder to set your clocks for the live... 

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Mercedes-Benz Presents the Avant/Garde Diaries: Transmission 1 Curated by Raf Simons, Launch Recap from Berlin

Mercedes-Benz Presents the Avant/Garde Diaries: Transmission 1 Curated by Raf Simons, Launch Recap from Berlin

While fashion designer Raf Simons is perhaps best known for his work for Jil Sander and his eponymous label, he actually studied industrial design, launching his career as a furniture designer before switching to fashion a few years later. His approach... 

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