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Trailer for Doug Pray’s Art & Copy

Premiered at Sundance. Coming to a place near you. Details.

And here’s the review from Entertainment Weekly  . . .

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Poster for Itaú Cultura’s 2008 video festival ‘Conflicts’ by São Paulo-based illustrator Kako. Visit Kako’s website here.

Found via the 2009 Communication Arts Illustration Annual

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4th season advertising image for Rescue Me

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Shirley-Ann Dick’s There’s more to life than Helvetica tee

Designed in under 10 minutes.

Found via Whitezine

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* Large wood-backed asterisks around Portland, Oregon

The Results Under Action Project. Details here.

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Ampersand Faux Cufflinks at Veer.

Found via swissmiss

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Fonts can’t handle being stretched, they end up looking awkward/slows down reading

Fonts require a lot of massaging in order for them to work for you. Here’s a list of some fairly common mistakes – posted over at The Design Cubicle.

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Robyn Waxman’s FARM project broke ground Saturday March 28, 2009 – with the goal to build a 66 foot long community-servicing/maintained farm on a toxic strip of land in San Francisco. FARM is in full swing on Hooper Street, which segments the SF campus of California College of the Arts. The project now has plans to branch out into Davis and Sacramento.

Find out more about FARM here.

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H (helvetica) from filnug on Vimeo

Found via i love typography

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Melbourne, Australia has a Landor-designed new identity, all built around some funky M treatments. More images here.

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Introducing Stephen Coles’ new Fontstruct: WPA Gothic. Based on the posters of the Works Progress Administration.

Click here for free download and more info.

For more about Fontstruct, go here.

And here’s some highlights from the Library of Congress’ WPA collection  . . .

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