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Like Helvetica? Like the Swiss International Style?

Armin Hofmann’s Graphic Design Manual (1965) is what I learned out of – and if it weren’t out of print, I’d be using it in my basics classes. (right now, I have a few slides made from my dog eared edition as part of a form lecture)

Graphic Design Manual breaks composition into basics: dot, line, confrontation, plus letters and signs. And it shows by example how these basics can be applied to good, clean graphic design: form, composition, typography.

I’ve seen it going for upwards of 90 bucks in some listings. As I write this, there are 22 used available at Amazon starting at $4.10.

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Found via Flores en el atico

The photographic work of Abelardo Morell.

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Photo by Live2Ski

The Polaroid instant camera is no more, the film factory shut its doors June 2008; taking with it the smelly magic that came from a photograph that would develop right in front of your eyes.

While an Impossible Project may bring the technology back (Polaroid’s chemical components are no longer available), one can still get the basic effect thru a nice little digital-manipulation thing called Poladroid.

Found via Ashley Simko’s blog.

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Gallery image from TiltShiftMaker

This is just too goofy not to mention. Turn your world – or snapshots – into a bad movie miniature. Go here.

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Everybody’s talking about Tron 2 this week. Remember the original? I haven’t seen it since 1982, big screen at the UA Cinema in Redwood City. At the time, I hadn’t realized how cheap the FX really were.

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Found via Reserves on TwitPic

Plus, there’s some more Evolution of Logos charts at the Best Ad blog.

And, here’s a link to the ‘official’ Pespi rebrand strategy proposal [pdf]. The most involved snow job in the history of brand design. Worth downloading and  . . .  reading with awe!

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i’m digging all this
I’ve had these merchandise ideas for a few years and just never got around to building them until recently. Production issues always held me up   . . .  so did fulfillment, pricing   . . .  inventory   . . .   [Read more →]

Tags: fashion, fonts, mehallo merchandise, originally posted on my myspace blog, typography by steve
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