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Lonesome Road: Dean Elliott & His Big Band
Birds absolutely LOVE Dean Elliot‘s 1962 track, Lonesome Road. Cluck always sings along.
Photos by mehallo
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Type in type
Typography is everywhere.
And inspired by sfgirlbybay, here’s a way to have fun with type today.
Just type the word ‘type’ into Flickr’s search engine.
See what pops up. Enjoy the show.
Specimen of type from the a Mano/Dean wood type collection
Hi!
By the way, this is our parrot, Cluck Cluck.
She named herself. We’ve had her for ten years at this point. She sings, dances and if I have a client on the phone, makes tons of LOUD, goofy noises.
Sleep and time
Imagine how much more of life we’d experience if we didn’t have to take seven or eight hours out of our day to just lie around making snoring noises.
Photography by Tyler Shields
Magazines in motion
‘Photographer Alexx Henry and his team show you how a magazine might look in the not-so-distant future with the October cover and spread for Outside Magazine.’
Kinda like this, but different.
Found via Jake Favour
Baikonur Cosmodrome in photos
‘the world’s first and largest operational space launch facility’
The Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan is where the Soviet Sputniks came from. Click for larger views. More photos here.
Plus, here’s a look thru Google Maps.
Found via English Russia
‘what i learned in school today’
Raina, Brent
Ever wonder what goes on in a creative classroom?
There is play, but it’s also a lot of hard work. Ask anyone in my Typography 3 course – this quarter, I’ve been doing Project Runway-like timed challenges every single week. Difficult, grueling – but students’ results have been incredible. [Read more →]
My take: Graphic design history fu
My syllabus, photographed by student Samantha Costanilla
So I’ve been teaching my version of ‘a history of graphic design’ for several years now. Just finished up my 9th session.
As a text, Philip B. Meggs’ landmark research book – History of Graphic Design, first released in 1984 – is the bible on the subject. Even the ‘making of’ has its own edition.
It’s the most thorough analysis, and one of the best graphic design reference books I own. But as Meggs points out in his introduction, it’s only the tip of the iceberg. There is so much more to discover, find, research and incorporate into one’s own view.
Finally, there is another book that just hit the market – The Story of Graphic Design by Patrick Cramsie. It tackles similar ground, but from another angle. A refreshing find. And from what I could tell so far, it syncs with my own classroom take on ‘The Story’ . . . [Read more →]
What is design?
‘First and foremost, not everyone can be a designer’
Here’s a great post from former student Raina Dayne. Read it here.
Follow her on Twitter.
Pictured: Moon by R. Dayne
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