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Trailer for Doug Pray’s Art & Copy

Premiered at Sundance. Coming to a place near you. Details.

And here’s the review from Entertainment Weekly  . . .

Conflicts

Poster for Itaú Cultura’s 2008 video festival ‘Conflicts’ by São Paulo-based illustrator Kako. Visit Kako’s website here.

Found via the 2009 Communication Arts Illustration Annual

It’s not all about fonts


Shirley-Ann Dick’s There’s more to life than Helvetica tee

Designed in under 10 minutes.

Found via Whitezine

Asterisks*


* Large wood-backed asterisks around Portland, Oregon

The Results Under Action Project. Details here.

 
 

& cufflinks

Ampersand Faux Cufflinks at Veer.

Found via swissmiss

FARM: Rethinking protest

Robyn Waxman’s FARM project broke ground Saturday March 28, 2009 – with the goal to build a 66 foot long community-servicing/maintained farm on a toxic strip of land in San Francisco. FARM is in full swing on Hooper Street, which segments the SF campus of California College of the Arts. The project now has plans to branch out into Davis and Sacramento.

Find out more about FARM here.

Melbourne: new identity

Melbourne, Australia has a Landor-designed new identity, all built around some funky M treatments. More images here.

WPA Gothic font – free download

Introducing Stephen Coles’ new Fontstruct: WPA Gothic. Based on the posters of the Works Progress Administration.

Click here for free download and more info.

For more about Fontstruct, go here.

And here’s some highlights from the Library of Congress’ WPA collection  . . .

Google: Total control

Google conspiracy theory animation by Ozan Halici & Jürgen Mayer. Bachelors’ Thesis at the University of Applied Sciences, Ulm, Germany.

Typographic propaganda

From 2003: What Barry Says by Simon Robson & Barry McNamara. Short anti-US fascism animation. This controversial film won Best Animation at the Brooklyn International Film Festival in 2004.

World disaster

What’s going wrong: Here’s a link to the world wide Emergency and Disaster Information Service Map. Live.


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