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A bunch of short typographic experiments by Teenocide. More at the website.

Found via Vimeo

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Creativity Never Sleeps, animated by the minds at Veer.

Found via Gábor Kóthay

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‘It’s slick, futuristic and vastly different from Coca Cola’s packaging which would be the reason they wouldn’t pick this up’

so green!
A brilliant bottle concept by an Industrial Design student – Andrew Seunghyun Kim – for helping reduce Coca-Cola’s environmental footprint. Would love to see this implemented. Coke: are you listening?

Details here. More details at Andrew Seunghyn Kim’s blog.

Just don’t tell Raymond Loewy about this.

Found via Designers Couch

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‘Keeps the doctor away’

The Apple Calendar, which holds a month’s worth of the fruit, was designed by Serviceplan for the offices of health insurance provider AOK.

Details here.

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I don’t buy a calendar anymore.

Because, like clockwork, a super cool one will arrive in the mail; typically a bit after the New Year has arrived.

For the past 15 years, Thomas Krug has been mailing me an incredible calendar. It often arrives in a large box and it always dazzles. Elaborate printing techniques, special inks, die cuts – a mesmerizing trip of photography and design.

Thomas is the owner of the Traffic design agency in Winnenden, Germany. And his firm’s self-designed calendar is one helluva promotional item. [Read more →]

Tags: cool finds, fonts, mehallo merchandise, photography, thoughts, typography by steve
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‘a ‘Tart Card’ to support the St Bride Library, London’

Koch-inspired design by Darren Scott. Details here.

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‘Kiss my ass! – or, Get stuffed!’ Rudolf Koch c. 1929

Last weekend, I was a guest blogger over at Boxed in Design. Did a write up on the incredible work of lettering artist Rudolf Koch (1876-1934).

Read it here.

Tags: design history, education, fonts, typography by steve
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‘The letterform’s characteristics rely on ornaments and contrast, which are both playful and mysterious at the same time. The same as the market engulfs the shopper with its array of stimuli’ -CP

Cristina Paoli’s slim coffee table book Mexican Blackletter takes a look at the importation of blackletter types into the Americas (via Spain) and subsequent vernacular adaptations in Mexico.

My favorite part is the breakout of multiple adapted forms, how they compare with each other (below) and how these forms have evolved into something distinctly Mexican.

Snag the book here. It’s a delightful read.

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