Friday Likes 03

Once again, beer makes an appearance, accompanied by the logo for a tennis player and a serious NGO. Mikkeller Pale Spring Ale Not quite a logo and not quite a full beer label system just a neat idea executed as briskly as crisp Fall air Once again,... 

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Seventy ways to start a novel

Neil Donnelly ‘s treatment of the opening page of Great Expectations evokes the layout of a tabloid newspaper In GraphicDesign& ‘s first book, Page 1: Great Expectations, 70 designers reinterpret the opening page of the Charles Dickens... 

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The Foundry’s latest Crouwel-inspired typeface

Architype Ingenieur is the latest Wim Crouwel-inspired type family to be released through David Quay and Freda Sack’s The Foundry … The lower-case only typeface was inspired by Crouwel’s exhibition catalogues and posters from the late... 

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Raising the Bars

Established in 2007, NYSE Euronext is the holding company of some of the most important and influential securities exchanges in the world, including the doubly eponymous New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and Euronext, trading equities, futures, options,... 

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Lance Wyman in Norwich

Lance Wyman at the launch of his show, You Are Here, at The Gallery at NUCA. Photo: Finola Gaynor Remember when the Olympics produced great graphic design? Lance Wyman at the launch of his show, You Are Here, at The Gallery at NUCA. Photo: Finola... 

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HYPERCOMPACT animated logo

Watch the video above. This animated logo for a fictional company called “Hypercompact” was based off of Morgan Allan Knutson’s Get Your Wings logo Watch the video above. This animated logo for a fictional company called “Hypercompact”... 

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Stedelijk Museum Spells Out the Obvious

Established in 1895, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (“Municipal Museum Amsterdam”) is a museum for classic modern art, contemporary art, and design in Amsterdam. Currently closed, until September of this year, for a major renovation and expansion... 

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The Modernists hold their ground in MoMA’s "Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language"

Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language , which opened at MoMA this Sunday, is a survey of text-based art over the last sixty years. Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language, which opened at MoMA this Sunday, is a survey of text-based art over the last sixty... 

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Salone Milan 2012: Another Terra, curated by Barbara Brondi and Marco Raino

Studio Besau-Marguerre’s hand-held greenhouse “Handgep?ck” Design curators and architects Barbara Brondi and Marco Rain? founded the IN Residence program in 2008 to be an annual design workshop bringing together 5-6 young designers... 

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Salone Milan 2012: Rotterdam’s Piet Zwaart Institute Presents "Fabrikaat" at Ventura Lambrate

Like many of their fellow student exhibitors at Milan’s Ventura Lambrate district (and elsewhere , the eight Master of Interior Architecture & Retail Design candidates at Rotterdam’s Piet Zwaart Institute made a strong showing. The exhibition,... 

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