Category: design
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Cover Versions
Great catch on the Word Magazine weekly email – a short list of mashups that redesign classic album sleeves. This Flickr stream is my favourite, featuring some of my favourite albums too – "Classic records lost in time and format, re-emerged as Pelican books. Just for fun."
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It’s Nice That
One of my favourite graphic design, illustration, and all-things-good blogs It's Nice That is going all analogue. They're launching a bi-annual publication to document some of the best work they've featured, along with some more in depth interviews and stuff. The idea is to 'break the mould of the classic design magazine' and 'publish some…
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Pastiche
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3252798&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1Pastiche—A Collective Composition of New York City, by Ivan Safrin & Christian Marc Schmidt from Christian Marc Schmidt on Vimeo. "The city is a composite of impressions. Beyond the built environment, it is a constantly changing pastiche of associations and experiences—not just of the people who inhabit it, but of the larger community. New York…
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NPD Notebook
This is a plug but one that's well worth doing. Many companies get all het up about doing a corporate blog, forgetting that it is often the interesting people inside that organisation that people want to engage with. Well, the IPC new product development team have started a blog – it's a multi-author blog featuring…
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Posters As Art
I had no idea but apparently Chaumont in France has become one of the premier graphic design destinations in the world – no doubt helped by the fact that it hosts the annual International Poster and Graphic Design Festival which is currently taking place and which features a poster competition popular with graphic artists around…
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Shipping Container Architecture
Rather like this. "Turning the icon of global trade into shelter". For a larger image click hereVia.
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Typographics
Abbott and Costello’s ‘Who’s on First’ routine done in Typographics. If you like this check out: Pulp Fiction in TypographicsOceans 11 in TypographicsEleanor Rigby in Typographicsand a ‘What is’ Typographics courtesy the Vancouver Film School HT to
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Subversion in a Vase
I like it when established norms are turned on their head. So howabout this from Wallpaper*. Pieke Bergmans (who won Best Breakthrough Designer at their 2007 Design Awards) has produced a unique collection of vases (called "Unlimited Edition") derived from a production process she created which can mass-produce individual objects instead of identical ones –…