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Found via Sandoer Berg

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Found via Modern Mechanix

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‘an excerpt from the poem Ursonate (Sonata in primitive sounds) by Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948)’

Created by Ed Ackerman and Colin Morton, 1986.

Found via Typophile

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‘I can kill catering with a thought’

Eddie Izzard‘s Death Star Canteen (from Circle) as interpreted thru Legos.

Found via Johnny Jnerebel

Tags: cool finds, culinary by steve
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‘Momento repetido, Intersticio impalpable, Formas sinuosas, Insignias a tus aventuras, Momento contemplativo.’

The work of Alexander Cano.

Flickr here, website here.

Depeche Mode: Precious

Found via beauty comma

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The work of Boz Schurr.

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Unofficial video by Ori Toor for Animal Collective’s Lion in a Coma.

Found via Zachariah Moreno

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‘yeah thats not what I was looking for at all.’

This is making its way around the interwebs. If you ask a designer for a ‘freebee,’ you never know what you’ll get. Read here.

Found via Laura Edmisten

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‘Tho all the maps of blood and flesh are posted on the door, theres no one who has told us yet what Boogie Street is for.’

Animation by cronogeo, featuring late 1920s woodcuts by ‘image novelist’ Franz Masareel (1889-1972).

Was recently reading about Masareel in David Berona’s beautiful edition, Wordless Books: The Original Graphic Novels.

Found via Oded Ezer, Belkind Scheps Osnat

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Oswald Cooper’s most famous typeface gets a US postage stamp!

Well, sort of. But it is legal, usable US ‘Zazzle’ postage. Snag your’s here.

Designed by David M. Anderson.

Tags: cool finds, fonts, illustration, typography by steve
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Also from Monsieur Bandit, a look at the incredible work of Italian street artists Sten and Lex.

Article here, video above. Flickr page here.

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