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Academy of Art graduate design student Alex Cornell’s super cool Playboy rebrand project. Details (and additional photos) at the ISO50 Blog.

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The world of graphic designer Laurie Rosenworld.

Illustration and fonts.

And here’s the Sweden/Nymphomaniac story.

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‘You can’t tempt a font designer with a carrot  . . .  but a nice red ampersand will do.’ -me

A while back, I was running thru Pottery Barn on my way to the Apple Store. This red one was on mark down. Marked wayyy down.

It called to me.

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‘How it works: Artists partner with A Beautiful Idea and create a product(s). They sell it and donate the money to our current charity via A Beautiful Idea’s donation center. It is really that simple.’

Oklahoma City-based Evie Shaffer has launched A Beautiful Idea, a site where artists can help donate to charity. Details here.

Found via Jessica Hische (who also designed the logo)

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‘The Haiti Poster Project seeks limited edition sets of posters from artists, designers and design firms from around the world. The donated posters will be sold online to raise money for Doctors Without Borders.’

Deadline is March 15, 2010. Details here. Some poster entries (below) are being shown on the Haiti Poster Project Facebook page.

Poster entry by the great Ivan Chermayeff

‘I wanted to create a series of these posters to spark peoples intrest in texting to donate to the relief fund. I only finished this brad pit one.’ –Matt Stallings

Poster entry by Wertzateria

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‘Baby, you’re my Univers. Meeting you was no Akzidenz. I can see that we‘ve got a great Futura. We were Meta be together.’

Handmade by Machine’s Just My Type greeting cards. Details here. Unfortunately, only UK-shipping is available for now.

Found via cebe design

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Arrived on Thursday – a wonderful ‘repurposed’ valentines card by the fantastic Marian Bantjes.

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Click for larger view/jump.

Found via Hugo van der Molen

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‘Love Fonts Memo is a classic memory game where it’s all about finding a matching pair of cards. At the end the player with most card pairs wins. The cards represent love stories about different kind of type faces.’

The work of Swedish design student/freelance designer Sara Strand.

Found via The Dieline

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I love when the general public finds brilliant solutions to overlooked design problems.

from south korea
Cold weather + not wanting to remove gloves + iPhone + sausages = productivity!

Snack sausages make great substitutes for browsing fingers. Something Apple’s design team hadn’t quite anticipated. Details here.

And
You too can be productive! Snag some Slim Jims for your iPhone  . . .  here.

Found via Kottke

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The Dirty Dozen: 12 Things Which Kill Creativity. Article here.

Dirty Dozen poster by The Silent Giants. Info here.

The Silent Giants blog here.

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