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Check out krystian ‘junkyard dogs’ kujda’s photostream at Flickr.

Reminds me of things in my garage.

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‘Well, you know, my hobbie (one of them anyway) is using a lot of scotch tape  . . .  pick out the different things during what I read and piece them together and [make] a little story of my own.’

Collages made by Louis ‘Pops’ Armstrong, from reel tape boxes, photos and other ephemera. More info here.

Happy Fathers Day everyone!

Louis Armstrong: La vie en Rose

Found via The Paris Review and Oscar Grillo

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‘Ein Ausschnitt aus einem öffentlichen Konzert des King of Jazz’

The great Louis Armstrong. Concert recorded in Stuttgart, 1959.

Accented by some great title card artwork.

Found via Astrotype

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The work of Aakash Nihalani.

Found via Alice Woodruff

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‘Discovered in Notting Hill Gate tube station, 2010 – wholly inaccessible so please don’t ask the staff! These are official photographs so please credit London Underground.’

Flickr (with great details) here.

Found via Rebecca Cottrell; with credit to the London Underground

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‘An online archive of Australian graphic design: 1960-1980.’

Blog with great finds from Oz. For more, go here.

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‘Now that we’ve got you interested in learning CPR and the abdominal thrust, go get properly certified by taking a class through one of the many certifying authorities in your local area’ –Super Sexy CPR

If someone strips down to their underwear in order to Heimlich me, I’m going to feel a tad awkward. Just sayin.

Found via Victoria Arriaga (another former student of mine)

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Great post over at McSweeney’s – written by Comic Sans. Enjoy it here.

I actually like Comic Sans. It’s not great, but I love its unintentional subversive nature. It just gets used a whole lot for really stupid stuff. By people who don’t know what they hell they’re doing. But I’d absolutely love one of my fonts to be as notorious.

OEM licensing for Chandler 42 anyone?

Also found by former student, Ai Buenafe

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GoD episode one: Ghosts in the Machine

GoD episode two: Designs for Living

‘This five-part series tells the story of design from the Industrial Revolution through 20s modernism, the swinging 60s, the designer 80s and up to the present day. Features interviews with star designers like Philippe Starck and creatives from Apple and Ford; as well as design fans like Stephen Fry.’

Finally in the US we have a peek at the BBC’s brilliant series on design history, The Genius of Design. Posted above are episodes one and two. With logotype set in Museo, of course.

Update: The BBC blocked the Vimeo postings of these episodes – but – I found the bloody things posted on a server in China. Really. Click on the above images/links to jump/watch. And hey at this point, I’m not posting them myself. Just providing links.

Would love to have the entire series on a US-friendly (Region 1) DVD.

Found via (former student) James Saturnio and (other former student) Ai Buenafe

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‘Real time: 1 hour 28 minutes, footage was recorded nonstop in one sitting. I was going as fast as I could so there are some imperfections here and there.’

Student Tony Wang’s final project from my experimental typography course at The Art Institute of California Sacramento. Tony spent the past eleven weeks doing a multifaceted study of the work of Hermann Zapf.

It culminated in the above video – vector-based drawings/tracings of Zapfino caps.

Each drawing was hand rendered (no live trace) in Adobe Illustrator. (For my beginning courses, students have to draft letterforms by hand with pencil/compass. Tony’s beautifully realized final is the next logical step in the process.)

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The work of Grace Kang.

Also, check out her downloadable Neutraface poster (scroll down to see).

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