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Video for Navigators’ My Place. Designed by Pavel Fuksa.

Matchboxes photoset here.

Found via Ai Buenafe

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A bunch of short typographic experiments by Teenocide. More at the website.

Found via Vimeo

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Creativity Never Sleeps, animated by the minds at Veer.

Found via Gábor Kóthay

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‘It’s slick, futuristic and vastly different from Coca Cola’s packaging which would be the reason they wouldn’t pick this up’

so green!
A brilliant bottle concept by an Industrial Design student – Andrew Seunghyun Kim – for helping reduce Coca-Cola’s environmental footprint. Would love to see this implemented. Coke: are you listening?

Details here. More details at Andrew Seunghyn Kim’s blog.

Just don’t tell Raymond Loewy about this.

Found via Designers Couch

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‘Keeps the doctor away’

The Apple Calendar, which holds a month’s worth of the fruit, was designed by Serviceplan for the offices of health insurance provider AOK.

Details here.

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I don’t buy a calendar anymore.

Because, like clockwork, a super cool one will arrive in the mail; typically a bit after the New Year has arrived.

For the past 15 years, Thomas Krug has been mailing me an incredible calendar. It often arrives in a large box and it always dazzles. Elaborate printing techniques, special inks, die cuts – a mesmerizing trip of photography and design.

Thomas is the owner of the Traffic design agency in Winnenden, Germany. And his firm’s self-designed calendar is one helluva promotional item. [Read more →]

Tags: cool finds, fonts, mehallo merchandise, photography, thoughts, typography by steve
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‘a ‘Tart Card’ to support the St Bride Library, London’

Koch-inspired design by Darren Scott. Details here.

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‘The letterform’s characteristics rely on ornaments and contrast, which are both playful and mysterious at the same time. The same as the market engulfs the shopper with its array of stimuli’ -CP

Cristina Paoli’s slim coffee table book Mexican Blackletter takes a look at the importation of blackletter types into the Americas (via Spain) and subsequent vernacular adaptations in Mexico.

My favorite part is the breakout of multiple adapted forms, how they compare with each other (below) and how these forms have evolved into something distinctly Mexican.

Snag the book here. It’s a delightful read.

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‘The Road Less Traveled takes its inspiration from American folk tunes from the likes of Pete Seeger and Bob Dylan  . . .  I have been really into the typographic work of Ed Ruscha and inspired by the typography that appears on old fruit crate labels. Both have a very ‘American’ feel to me just like the song’ -Matt Owens

Matt Owens’ The Road Less Traveled. More details here.

Found via Oded Ezer

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The Harley Davidson 2007 Beast campaign. Creative director: Joe Hospodarec, art director/illustrator: Joel Arbez, Agency: WAX.

Found via Ads of the World

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Opening April 8, 2010 at the Bayside Church in Granite Bay, CA is ‘From the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Bible in America,’ an exhibition featuring five pieces of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Also on hand will be some rare Bibles including (reportedly) an original by Gutenberg.

More information here. SacBee article here.

Found via Susan Poirier

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