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How do you buy type?

Look at that. ARS Maquette. Beautiful. Having read on the Typekit blog that it's now available for web use, I thought I'd look into getting myself a licence. It'd come in handy for my thrice-weekly...

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Display

Have I mentioned the amazing Display before? Probably. Put together by Brooklynites Kind Company, it's a curated collection of important modern, mid 20th century graphic design books, periodicals,...

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Saul Bass

With the publication of Saul Bass: A Life in Film and Design, there's a lot of love out there right now for the big guy. One corner of the web you really need to see is the Movie Title Stills...

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Brutal

High Court, Chandigarh, India, by Le Corbusier. From Fuck Yeah Brutalism.

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GrayMatter

How Darwin’s photos of human emotions changed visual culture / Do-gooders create 3D printed shells to save hermit crabs (a surpassingly cute pet, it turns out) / Bonkers architecture: The Tower For...

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The QR code: gimmick, Pandora's box or just misunderstood?

QR codes. Yuck. These so-called quick response codes are more like ugly, mysterious trapdoors; more often than not slapped onto designs to convince client that their advert/article/yoghurt is somehow...

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Cristiana Couceiro

My big Gimme Bar collection of yellow things just keeps on growing. The latest addition is this lovely illustration for Design Week by Cristiana Couceiro, whose work is well worth a look-see. The...

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Movember strikes back

I'm still fuzzying up my lip with a barely-noticeable soup-strainer for Movember, and I believe some of you still have change in them there pockets of yours. Please give what you can, there's a good...

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Malcolm Gladwell: Collected

Crivens. I've been meaning to pour some Gladwell into my brain for some time now, but have never quite got around to it. The beautifully designed (by Paul Sahre) and illustrated (by Brian Rea) new...

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Never Let Me Go

Never Let Me Go is definitely one of my films of 2011 (yes, it's that time of year again – out come the best of lists …), so when Paul Willoughby tweeted up a picture of Carey Mulligan from a recent...

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What is it that Pantone do again?

Do you remember when Pantone colours weren't plastered all over biscuit tins and chairs and aprons and postcards and mugs and kitchen scales? You know, when they just made colour reference books?...

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Mulhouse Gare Central

Not really sure what it is (it's a bit French, and I'm a bit British and therefore stubbornly resistant to bothering to learn other people's languages), but Mulhouse Gare Central is a rather lovely...

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Hulk Gray

The existence of this pleases me no end.

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Waitrose

Well that's quite nice, isn't it?

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GrayMatter

Love Mike McQuade's Chicago map for Herb Lester. Even after years of watching ER, I had no idea Chicago was that shape / Beautiful pics of the Barbican and the city by Jenny Theolin / The architecture...

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Stuff #1

Box of stuff #1. So much loveliness.

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Christian Annyas

Lots of nice collections to look at on designer Christian Annyas' blog, such as Chevrolet speedometer designs from 1941 to 2011 and handlettered logos from defunct department stores. He's also the...

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Eggers

A little experiment in designing a Dave Eggers cover. Obscenely basic, yes. Possibly too basic. Took five minutes to get to this point and, although I intended to do a lot more to it (I had all sorts...

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Bojkowski / Grafik

And so, Grafik has been dropped by its publisher once again. It's a hell of shame, but I'm confidant they'll bounce back again, so no need to obituarise just yet. Instead, why not spend some time...

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NTFS poster

That Eggers experiment I did the other day reminded me of this A0 poster I did back in 2009 for the National Teaching Fellowship Scheme awards ceremony. I recall it took forever to get those few...

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