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‘The Making of a Design Thinker’


Process imagery, click for larger version/jump

Here’s an excerpt from Tim Brown’s new book, Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation.

More about the book here. Order here.

Tim Brown is president and CEO of IDEO

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Seven rules for understanding design and designers.

Found via sfgirlbybay

Vintage ads

‘Vintage Ads Reveal Fashions And Trends In Type And Commercial Lettering’

Check out Vintage Ad Browser.

And
Great article about how to typographically mimic these looks at The Font Feed.

Found via The Font Feed

Vintage logotypes



‘Collection of vintage logos from a mid-70’s edition of the book World of Logotypes’

Eric Carl’s Flickr set here.

Found via Oded Ezer

‘Space Age Style from the Italian Bauhaus’

From LIFE Magazine, March 1969.

Found via OBJECT <> PLASTIC

Dior’s Heiroglyphs

‘The problem with being an It Girl is you’re not known for doing anything’ -Harley Viera-Newton

DJ Harley Viera-Newton has created a hieroglyphic addition to Dior’s Beauté compact. Article here.

Plus,
It girl video below  . . . .

Top image via Nylon; compact shots found via twitpics

Sabina

The work of Sabina Friedrich. MySpace here.

Van Doesburg


‘Raoul Hausmann’s postcard to IK Bonset (van Doesburg’s alter ego) of rival theorist Herwarth Walden’

Theo van Doesburg (1883-1931). Magazine publisher. Artist. Designer. Propagandist. Troublemaker. Dutch. The guy behind de Stijl.

A van Doesburg show just opened yesterday (my birthday, how bout that?) at the Tate Modern. Review here. Another review here.

Runs thru May 16, 2010.


Stained glass composition by van Doesburg

Plus,
Here’s a link to my own low cost, van Doesburg-influenced font, 2491.

French Futura: You get an a

Paul Renner’s Futura fonts were exported to France under the name Europe. And they came with an interesting alternate a (seen in the top half of this sample). Changes the whole look and feel of the type. Details here.

Found via Colin M. Ford

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‘e for emily’

A bunch of years ago, Pomme Chan’s work caught my eye. And I almost featured her illustrations in a group design exhibition. Almost. Logistics sort of got in the way.

Her website is here.

Looking Glass

Video for The Birthday Massacre’s Looking Glass. Directed by Dan Ouellette. Director’s comments here. From the album Walking with Strangers.

Been cranking this one really loud while driving in morning traffic. The title track, Walking With Strangers, also a fav. Here’s TBM’s MySpace page.

And
Check out GoodbyeForever – Chibi (lead vocalist), Laura and Emily’s Etsy store. Handmade stuff, including these fun playing card prints (below).

(I was lecturing on 15th century playing card design just this past Monday)


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