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Found via Martin Klasch

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‘For The New York Times Magazine’s annual ‘Year in Ideas’ issue  . . .  Paula Scher illustrated a chart of selected 2009 patents’

Chart compiled by Alexandra Horowitz and Ammon Shea. Click image for larger version/jump.

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I always forget to get a calendar. And it’s already the 30th.

Here’s one: The 2010 42-line Rare Book Calendar features images from Hogarth (1753), William Blake (1793), Charles Le Brun (1806), an 1805 edition of Shakespeare and more. Info and ordering details here.

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‘Gradually, I realized that the books I had put off reading for so long all had covers that screamed: ‘Pulp me! Pulp me!”

Joe Queenan looks at Huckleberry Finn, Elijah Wood (pictured, with Courtney B. Vance), Gatsby, Doctor Faustus, Death of a Salesman – and how a BAD cover design can ruin a perfectly good book.

NYT essay here.

What to do about an ugly cover: 1. Brown bag it; 2. Reverse it; 3. Try spandex; 4. Use house paint; 5. Duct tape it; 6. Tear it off

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Selected by the always incredible Paste Magazine. See all of em here.

Click on images for jump/description.

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Over at CreativePro: Images of the type used in – and for promos – for Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life (1946).

Go here for more.

Found via Sabine Lenz

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1966 CBS on air Christmas card.

Designed by R.O. Blechman and animated by Willis Pyle. Music by Arnie Black.

Found via sfgirlbybay; bad banana blog

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‘In perfect harmony’

Back when in the US, The Real Thing had Real Sugar in it. Coated one’s teeth like icing.

bonus!
Here’s the original I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing spot.

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Classic commercial, classic electric razor. No ‘gotchas,’ but razor burn that would not go away.

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Details.

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40th Anniversary Woodstock tribute poster tied to a west coast music festival.

This was a collaborative project I designed with psychedelic light show legend George Holden. His liquid light backgrounds, my illustration and lettering.

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