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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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‘Creative people, like those with psychotic illnesses, tend to see the world differently to most. It’s like looking at a shattered mirror’ -Mark Millard, UK psychologist

Interesting BBC article: ‘Creative minds mimic schizophrenia.’

Found via Jeanne Mehallo, Nikoletta Kanakis

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‘In his prime piece of Wallpaper* real estate Philippe Starck gave the platform to ‘others who deserve to be heard.’ Scientists, physicists, cosmologists and the odd artist and activist rock star – Starck challenged them on the meaning of life. We couldn’t let him get away that easily though and so travelled to the south of France to quiz him on his own views about life and design.’

From 2009.

Found via Wallpaper*

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‘I was at a department store here in Basel and this in-store magazine caught my eye. The focus is Barcelona and all the headings are set in what must be Jeanne Moderno!’ -Nina

Nina Stössinger not only snagged me a copy of Globus Savoir Vivre‘s Barcelona issue; she also popped it in the mail. It just arrived a couple days ago.

It’s always great to see my fonts in use. Especially when the designer uses my funky accents.

First two photos by Nina Stössinger, the rest by mehallo

Tags: cool finds, fonts, mehallo merchandise, thoughts, typography by steve
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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 →]

Tags: cool finds, design history, education, photography, thoughts, typography by steve
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‘I don’t know what’s next! It’s kind of a joke, but we’re proudly ‘without business plan’ in our 13th year. We’ve had a lot of things not work, and that’s OK too. If it’s a good idea and it gets you excited, try it, and if it bursts into flames, that’s going to be exciting too. People always ask, ‘What is your greatest failure?’ I always have the same answer – We’re working on it right now, it’s gonna be awesome!’

Interview with Jim Coudal here.

Found via Swiss Miss

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‘ohhhh THATS how i become a graphic designer.’

If you can touch your toes, you’re in.

Found via jescellophane

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‘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

Tags: education, photography, thoughts by steve
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‘Giacomo Mojoli, vice-president of Slow Food International, contemplates what it means to mutually contaminate the sphere of food sensoriality with the wider one of material, manufacturing and creative sensoriality’

Applying the concepts of the Slow Food movement to design.

NYT article here. Recent article here. Website here.

Take your time, make something better. Very William Morris-like.

Illustration by Leigh Wells for the NYT

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‘But judging the circumstances, any judge in the whole world, would look at the statistics and the evidence and they would find any government guilty of child abuse. That’s my belief.’

Jamie Oliver talks Food Revolution. From February 12.

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Safeway has a new reusable, old west-styled typographic beef cuts bag – picked it up last night. Reminds me of the CBS Gastrotypographicalassemblage.

Begging dog sold separately.

Tags: culinary, design, design history, fashion, thoughts, typography by steve
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