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Going West

Film for the New Zealand Book Council, produced by Colenso BBDO and animated by Andersen M Studio.

And you can snag a copy of Maurice Gee’s Going West here.

Found via Daniel Will-Harris

‘Creative, dedicated minority’

The graffiti of Jerm IX.

Found via LOUDreams

Woody Allen, Windsor

‘On one occasion, referring to Benguiat as a ‘printer,’ Allen asked him what a good typeface was. Benguiat had an affinity for Windsor and suggested it to him that morning. He’s used it in every film since.’

Woody Allen and the Windsor typeface. Since 1977. Story here.

‘Extreme typesetting’

‘from Alphabets 1964, edited by R. S. Hutchings’

Image found by the great Steve Matteson – who was recently interviewed by Mashable.

Supermarket finds

‘Great design. Straight from designers.’

Here’s some picks from the Supermarket this year.







‘THAN’

Thank you card in progress. The work of Brian Hurst.

Be nice  . . .

The work of alexandraferguson.

Found via Nina Moon

More Occupy visuals

As more of the world finds itself occupied, additional visuals are showing up on the interwebs.

Above, OCCUPY U poster created by an anonymous designer friend, whose name is left off for fear of losing another job (click to download printable PDF).

Below, statistical poster from new website Occupy Design. And at bottom, Shepard Fairey does his thang.

Click on images to download and/or jump to respective websites.

Occupy Design found via GOOD

Occupy, Columbus Day

Just like BofA and Wells Fargo.

Found via Cecilia Motwani

Occupy, the posters

‘I’ve been doing posters for tons of cities across America’

In the past few weeks, one of my former students has found herself cast as the visual heart of the Occupy movement. Raina Dayne started with offering to do a poster and it’s blossomed into something much bigger.

Raina’s images can be downloaded for use at the Occupy Together website. Facebook page here, shirts here.



Leerstof Tekenen alphabets

‘From Leerstof Tekenen, a collection of assignments and exercises for graphic design students   . . .   Rescued from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy library in Amsterdam’

Found via Freaky Fauna


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