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Live Forever Competition Recap
The Michael Jackson Monument Design Competition, Live Forever, hosted by Archinect.com and Bustler.net, announced its winners last month. In case you were too busy commemorating the King of Pop in your own way, here's a recap: Baddest: A digital c...
Contribute to the Identity Archives Project!
San Francisco designer Gabe Ruane has launched the Identity Archives Project, a growing online database of logos submitted by their respective designers worldwide. Anyone can submit a logo, providing it "is/was a client approved design, and that i...
How Can I Keep $1,000? A History of Paula Scher's Paintings
Paula Scher is as well known for her map paintings as her graphic & environmental design. In this video, Scher explains that she painted her first map as a way to make an expense-free cover for an AIGA annual in order to keep the allotted $1,000 b...
AdViews : Vinatage TV Commercial Bonanza!
The perfect complement to a Mad Men addiction? AdViews, a recently launched online collection of TV commercials from the 50s through the 80s. The ads are part of the D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles Archives at Duke University. The agency (and its pr...
Hubby Hubby
A special post for Vermont readers (I know there's at least one of you): For the month of September you can show your support of the state's decision to legalize gay marriage by eating Hubby Hubby, a specially renamed version of Ben & Jerry's clas...
The Omnivore's Dilemma : In Action On The Best-Sellers List
Michael Pollen devotes a section in his book "The Omnivore's Dilemma" to what he calls "America's National Eating Disorder." Pollen writes, "America has never had a stable national cuisine; each immigrant population has brought its own foodways to...
Microsoft : Not Too Savvy With Photoshop
An already bland MSFT web promo featuring an ethically diverse office trio took a turn for the worse when the image appeared altered on the company's Polish website. The Photoshopper did a real hatchet job, leaving behind the original man's right ...
Girls + Cheap Paper = Multiple notes to self
Note to self #1: Buy "100 Girls on Cheap Paper," a book of drawings by Tina Berning, when Chronicle publishes it in the US next month. Note to self #2: Get lost in Berning's drawings: http://www.tinaberning.online.de/ Note to self #3: Resurrect sk...
Pre-Photoshop Photoshopping
via nytimes.com " 'The very nature of photography was to record events,' said Hany Farid, a professor of computer science at Dartmouth University and a detective of photographic fakery. 'You'd think there would have been a grace period of respect ...
Jewelry For The Sheepish Tourist
via designhypeinc.com For every NYC visitor (or perhaps even resident) who is embarrassed to be caught examining a map in public, your salvation is here. Design Hype, a Pennsylvania-based studio, is now making a matte metal cuff etched with the MT...
Su Blackwell's Beautiful Book Art
A friend of mine recently discovered British artist Su Blackwell's intricate book and paper art. Her delicate, sculptural pieces literally grow out of their source material (including fairy-tales and children's book), creating ethereal, slightly s...
SFMOMA Martin Moleskin Mania!
More Martin Venesky / Appetite Engineer designs for SFMOMA! Moleskin's San Francisco city notebook, featuring a custom embossed cover, will be available soon at the SFMOMA store.Keep your eye on it here: http://sfmoma.stores.yahoo.net/sfmomaproduc...
It's A Thin Line Between High & Low
Kurt Andersen wrote an intriguing essay in last weekend's NYT Book Review about the current status of pop culture. He argues that Barack Obama is the penultimate user, creator, disseminator and exemplar of pop culture, and therefore we now live in...
Rodarte for Target?
via style.com I have been following Rodarte's rapid ascent in the fashion world since the talented LA-based sisters first began designing in 2005. They were named the CFDA Designers of the Year in May and now comes the news that Rodarte will be th...
Who Knew Dirty Grout Was Such a Problem?
You Say Typography, I Say Topography
Natural letterforms, as discovered and mapped by Australian designer Rhett Dashwood via Google maps.Links to his letter/land forms and their exact location here: http://rhettdashwood.com.au/#16575
Just Plain Rad
To promote its micro car the iQ, Toyota Belgium joined forces with two typographers, a professional driver and a software programmer to create a vehicular font. While the concept and implementation are cool, it's the driver's skills behind the whe...
Louis Vuitton Sandwich
Yesterday the New York Times Style Section featured an analysis of the photographer Annie Leibovitz's financial troubles (she borrowed $24 million against her property and archive and now has to pony up). The story jumped from the cover to page 9,...
"CalArts, We Suck Less"
Nice.