May 2013
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April 2013
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KOMBOH did this awesome Avengers poster…
…which Marvel made him take down (side note: if Marvel’s going to go around taking down design-y posters using their superheroes, they have a long, long road ahead of them). So in response KOMBOH changed the poster to this:
A bigger version here lets you read the names they came up with to replace the Marvel trademarks.
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March 2013
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January 2013
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WatchMy favourite thing of the week: The Centrifuge Brain Project (by Till Nowak)
-James
WatchA great short film that combines comics and live action in a really unique way.
Malaria (by Edson Oda)
-James
“A seemingly endless series of drive-by shootings punctuated by the occasional...”
– Michae; Bierut on Graphic Design Criticism as a Spectator Sport. Such a great article.
-James
“We know it is only an album cover with a white square on it but often in design it can be a long journey to get at something quite simple which works and that simplicity can work on many levels – often the most simple ideas can be the most radical.”
Jonathan Barnbrook – who I saw speak at We Can Create late last year and was really impressed by – explains the thinking behind...
December 2012
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November 2012
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October 2012
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September 2012
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August 2012
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July 2012
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“Unless you are a company that specializes in flights around the orbit of a...”
– Via Quipsologies, the new National Restaurant Association logo must be the ultimate in post-rationalisation. It features not one, but two swooshes, and the funniest video demonstrating how those swooshes can represent pretty much anything (including a diamond ring and the moon, of course). This is...
“It’s as if we are trying to rebuild the physical artifacts around us inside of...”
– If Apple’s Os UI irritates you as much as it does me (everything is fake leather and notepaper, trying emulate the real, often outdated, thing), this talk by Microsoft designer Mike Kruzaniski – “How Print Design is the Future of Interaction” – is a good rallying cry for a new...
June 2012
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May 2012
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April 2012
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“Usefulness is best achieved by thinking about everything as user experience. If...”
– Wolff Olins’ Mary Ellen Muckerman on user experience as the heart of a company.
-James
March 2012
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February 2012
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January 2012
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WatchThe Monserrat Typeface is a typography project from Julieta Ulanovsky designed to capture the geometric styles of her neighbourhoods signs before they are gone. Successfully funded through kickstarter the new fonts are due to be released sometime this month.
- Jeremy
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December 2011
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