Win a pair of Tracey Neuls shoes

Win a pair of Tracey Neuls shoes Many people were vowed by these gorgeous shoes by Tracey Neuls during the Clerkenwell Design Week. They are designed with an assymetrical T-bar strap and Tracey Neuls’ trademark flared heal. Win a pair of... 

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Augmented Hyper-Reality: Immersing yourself in (Branded) Infographics

Augmented reality is all the hype know, in particular with the technology ditching the required goggles for cool mobile phones screens, and the like. The short movie below offers a future vision of augmenting your normal vision in the kitchen when commercial... 

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This is not your Mom’s Girl Scouts

With more than 2.4 million girl members, supported by nearly a million adult members working as volunteers, the Girl Scouts of the USA is the world’s biggest organization dedicated to girls — all girls as their description clarifies. Founded... 

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Karl-Heinz Lange, 1929–2010

Typeface design in Germany during the twentieth century was a field populated by giants. Typeface design in Germany during the twentieth century was a field populated by giants. Arguably, in no century before, and in no country elsewhere, were so many... 

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First Brno TypeTalks

Rob Keller sitting to my right in a Brno jazz bar. Photo by Martin T. Pecina Rob Keller sitting to my right in a Brno jazz bar. Photo by Martin T. Pecina. Do you know the old expression, “getting there is half the fun?” When it came time... 

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RCA: Communication Art & Design degree show

We went along to the Royal College of Art’s SHOW Two yesterday. We went along to the Royal College of Art’s SHOW Two yesterday. There was some great work to be seen; here’s a selection of some of the best bits from the Communication... 

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Step-by-Step Bunny

I’m one of those stubborn people that upon installing a new piece of equipment or software I skip the instructions and assume right away that I can make things work without some kind of manual telling me how to do things. I’m one of those... 

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First Cyprus type conference

The fourth International Conference on Typography and Graphic Communication took place in during the middle of June 2010, under the theme “lending grace to language.” For the first time, the ICTVC to place in Nicosia, Cyprus; previous ICTVC... 

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Die fünf besten Font-Foundry-Websites 2010

Dreieinhalb Jahre liegt mein letzter Exkurs in Sachen Foundry-Websites bereits zurück. Seitdem hat sich vieles geändert: Webtechnologien, Designtrends, die Diversität der Hersteller, mein ästhetisches Empfinden und der Geschmack sowieso. Zeit also... 

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Dead Ends

Recently received an email from Sheffield-based photographer Theo Simpson with a link to his recent Dead Ends project. Dead Ends is a collaboration between Simpson, writer Tom Mclaughlin and graphic designer Tom Common. Recently received an email... 

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