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Entry no.: 526

23 Jul 2008, 11:11 AM

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Design Font conference

“Open mailbox,” haha! See the movie.

Via DF.

Entry no.: 523

18 Jul 2008, 3:17 PM

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Design Being a designer

“Good designers are a dime a dozen, he said. Coming up with a great design solution is the easy part. The hard part, he said, is getting the client to accept the solution.” Mad Men.

Entry no.: 516

9 Jul 2008, 2:04 PM

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Design 25 books

25 new classic book covers from the past 25 years.

And the wonderful 25books.com Bildschöne Bücher was based on.

Entry no.: 511

29 Jun 2008, 11:30 PM

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Design Penguin design

The dead art of book cover is so not dead: have a look at the winners and shortlist of the 2008 Penguin Design Award.

Via Kottke.

Entry no.: 490

24 May 2008, 6:18 PM

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Design Redesign by law

“The U.S. Treasury Department is violating the law by failing to design and issue currency that is readily distinguishable to blind and visually impaired people.” Read Paper money unfair to blind.

Entry no.: 478

30 Apr 2008, 4:42 PM

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Design Dog-years

“Our designers, production and client facing people are living dog-years. They live seven years to any normal designer’s one year” — Attik’s new NoiseBlog.

Entry no.: 465

7 Apr 2008, 7:35 PM

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Design UK coinage

Noteworthy even given that I’m against design competitions: a 26-year-old first-time currency designer redraws UK coinage. And Jonathan Hoefler’s bitter perspective. Via Kottke.

Entry no.: 462

2 Apr 2008, 10:43 AM

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Design One down

Starck went on to say that he believed that design on the whole was dead. This “I’m so ashamed to make this job” story is hardly new, but what about fighting “barbaria?

Entry no.: 457

26 Mar 2008, 9:14 AM

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Design Jobs on Rand

“If you want options, go talk with other people! I’ll solve your problem for you.” 1993 Steve Jobs interview about working with Paul Rand at paul-rand.com.

Entry no.: 428

4 Feb 2008, 6:33 PM

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Design Warning

Charles Baldwin on biohazard symbol development: three-sided, easily stenciled and striking enough that it would be remembered. Via Creative Bits.

Entry no.: 422

29 Jan 2008, 1:40 PM

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Design ɐəʞI

Curious Ikea Futura punctuation marks, Gruber-style.

Entry no.: 416

25 Jan 2008, 5:11 PM

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Design For sale

Need some nice stock photos? Buy Getty Images. Only $1.5bn and you’re all set.

Entry no.: 414

22 Jan 2008, 11:18 PM

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Design Design police

This type has been bastardised and other “visual enforcement kit parts.” Genius!

Entry no.: 411

18 Jan 2008, 1:05 PM

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Design Ironic

When the book cover bets against its content — the typographic joke of the year.

Entry no.: 412

18 Jan 2008, 12:09 PM

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Design Ignorance

Who do you think it might hate designers? Take the quote: “Stealing some hundreds of euros is by far MUCH more work than any designer will accomplish in his/her whole life.” This kind of people.

It is a real quotation from a blog. And stare in the abyss.

Entry no.: 410

15 Jan 2008, 10:53 AM

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Design The thin glass

Typography, from Stanley Kubrick’s favorite font to the cover design of The Catcher in the Rye in Michael Bierut’s video interview.

Entry no.: 387

13 Dec 2007, 8:36 PM

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Design Leads

138 brands, sorted alphabetically: pencils.

Entry no.: 376

7 Dec 2007, 10:20 AM

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Design Mazing

This is on ID Magazine’s list of Most Ingenious Products of 2007. Maybe it was a bad year. Via DO.

Entry no.: 369

3 Dec 2007, 2:23 PM

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Design Encyclopedia Erratica

Wikipedia is a meritorious effort, but when it comes to design or design history its model fails.

Entry no.: 368

3 Dec 2007, 9:19 AM

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Design Making

The Making of FF Meta Serif.

Entry no.: 359

27 Nov 2007, 8:53 AM

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Design All-in-one

Some like calendars [link in Romanian], others like their calendars to be very, very compact. Not too late to redesign anything. Thanks, Eugen.

Entry no.: 355

23 Nov 2007, 9:57 AM

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Design Dizzign

This page contains some works of ‘anomalous motion illusion’, which might make sensitive observers dizzy or sick. Should you feel dizzy, you had better leave this page immediately.”Via DO.

Entry no.: 342

15 Nov 2007, 10:50 AM

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Design Cover-up

A great cover telling a great story, that’s one thing that separates print magazines from web magazines’ mashed look and crummy little thumbs: best magazine covers of 2007. Via DO.

Entry no.: 329

6 Nov 2007, 8:58 PM

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Design 30x2

At sixty, Mr Spiekermann has the verve of a thirty years old. The effect of information design or typeface design?

Entry no.: 328

6 Nov 2007, 8:30 AM

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Design No sweat

Effortlessly jump-start your career: design like Khoi Vinh in five easy steps. No design studies required. Piece of cake!

Entry no.: 322

1 Nov 2007, 5:14 PM

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Design iComplain

“When you give people what they want, they actually complain more.” Weird but true. [Thanks, Iancu.]

Entry no.: 300

17 Oct 2007, 10:40 AM

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Design Spotted

Dots and NeoSans in Norwegian national broadcaster’s idents. [Via 1+1=3.]

Entry no.: 298

16 Oct 2007, 9:09 AM

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Design Responsible

“What is ‘sustainable architecture’? The expression doesn’t really mean much. I prefer ‘responsible architecture’.” Françoise-Hélène Jourda in Le Monde. Applies just the same for design: ‘responsible design’ instead of ‘sustainable design’. I like that. [Via CoS.]

Entry no.: 296

15 Oct 2007, 8:35 AM

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Design Design curve

“Combining a full-witted individual with a half-wit only yields a half-wit.” The curve it’s about web design, but applies to identity as well. [Via Longboard.]

Entry no.: 272

4 Oct 2007, 8:52 AM

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Design Gee

So neglected, the poor thing. Love it and it’ll bloom like a flower. Lowercase ‘g’, that is.

Entry no.: 271

3 Oct 2007, 6:19 PM

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Design Credits

The Lord of the Lord of the Lord of the Lord of—the credits roll, insert yawning emoticon—the Rings. [Via H&FJ.]

Entry no.: 267

2 Oct 2007, 10:56 AM

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Design Instant virtuoso

Ever fancied a corporate ID with a Mona Lisa-inspired color palette? A Botticelli-colored web site? Well then, knock yourself out! [Via 1+1=3]

Entry no.: 260

26 Sep 2007, 11:56 PM

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Design Piece of cake

The “can’t tell rebranding from redesign—hey, who cares?—I’ll rank that stuff regardless” school of thought. [Via Core77]

Entry no.: 254

25 Sep 2007, 6:11 PM

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Design Band logos

When the sound is not enough, brand the music! Hmm, I wonder when will slogans appear next to those logos? Via Design Forum.

Entry no.: 245

20 Sep 2007, 9:55 AM

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Design A hole in the bubble

Follow-up: John Nack, a Senior Product Manager from Adobe Photoshop team, introduces the new Photoshop logo to the public on his adobe-dot-com-hosted blog and a tidal wave on negative comments flows right in. No wonder. [via DF] Others put together long lists (and rather incomplete) of speech bubble logos to demonstrate the inflationism.

Entry no.: 244

19 Sep 2007, 9:42 AM

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Design Photoshop logo

Adobe® Photoshop® has a (new) logo, 3D candy, shiny and poor—looks like it’s targeted at teenagers and amateurs. And the slogan—“See what’s possible”—looks crafted towards inducing trial. Photoshop is “the ultimate playground”… what’s wrong with Adobe?!? 100% penetration in the pro market and they try to lure some kids now with colorful balloons?

Entry no.: 243

18 Sep 2007, 2:10 PM

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Design Copperplate Gothic

If you worked with Copperplate Gothic you’ll feel deep in your stomach the point Armin makes in Dr. Copperplate and Mr. Gothic: this apparently submissive typeface is a hard-boiled motherf**ker.

Entry no.: 232

7 Sep 2007, 9:29 PM

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Design Pantone 2.0: Goe

After making a royal mess out of their PMS lately, Pantone plans to clean up their act by launching Pantone Goe spot-color matching system. New inks, new numbers, new books and new software. I don’t like it. At all.

Entry no.: 214

18 Aug 2007, 1:05 PM

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Design Two philosophies

Microsoft font rendering vs Apple font rendering — what do you respect more: the pixel grid, or the font designer? Read Respecting The Pixel Grid. [via DF]

Entry no.: 212

15 Aug 2007, 5:59 PM

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Design Gerpaña

To find out how Gobierno de Gerpaña got a nice logo — and why — read Erik Spiekermann’s blog post Viva España or what?

Entry no.: 211

15 Aug 2007, 10:46 AM

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Design Clarity

Design issues in mainstream media: The New York Times runs an article on typography — “a minor technicality of civilized life” — with the occasion of replacing Highway Gothic with Clearview on road signage. Read The Road to Clarity and don’t sigh wile reading quotes like “I’ve always thought that design can be a form of social activism.”

Entry no.: 210

15 Aug 2007, 10:35 AM

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Design Original Design Gangsta

Hilarious design-gangsta rap video. It kinda makes sense after all — isn’t our professional ethos minority-like? Ghetto-like?

Entry no.: 198

3 Aug 2007, 9:59 AM

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Design The flavors of Times

Times (New) Roman and its part in the Development of Scalable Font Technology by Charles Bigelow, initially posted this article to the Usenet in May 1994 in response to the question: What’s the difference between Times Roman and Times New Roman?

Entry no.: 189

24 Jul 2007, 12:37 PM

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Design Design Excellence Awards

IDEO took seven IDEA awards, four gold, one silver, two bronze, plus four Catalyst prizes at 2007 International Design Excellence Awards. Read about it in BusinessWeek’s Best Product Design Of 2007 (or jump directly to the slide show).

Entry no.: 186

22 Jul 2007, 10:01 AM

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Design Scourge

Why “Arial is little more than a shameless impostor”? Read The Scourge of Arial.

Entry no.: 170

5 Jul 2007, 12:17 PM

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Design Kamons

Wikipedia entry: “Mon, also monshō, mondokoro, or kamon, are Japanese family heraldic symbols. Mon refers to any symbol, while kamon and mondokoro refer specifically to family symbols.” Now you know why Japanese symbol-based logos are so beautiful: tradition. [via PingMag]

Entry no.: 167

3 Jul 2007, 11:42 PM

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Design Holographic show design

Diesel leaves audience open-mouthed in Florence with “Liquid Spaces” holographic catwalk show created by the Spanish CGI animation studio Dvein using the amazing technology developed by the Danish multi-media production agency Vizoo. Download the video and have a look. [Via Cool Hunting]

Entry no.: 162

30 Jun 2007, 4:04 PM

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Design Pray like a pro

Are thou a graphic designer? Then learn how to properly pray like a graphic designer. Amen. [via