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Unofficial video by Ori Toor for Animal Collective’s Lion in a Coma.

Found via Zachariah Moreno

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Leo the Lion in the restored MGM logo, 2008-present

Below, a visual history of MGM’s Leo the Lion.

Details here and here.

Around the lion’s head: ARS GRATIA ARTIS is a Latin translation of ‘art for art’s sake.’

Slats, the original ‘Leo the Lion’ at Goldwyn Pictures, 1916-24

Slats, in the first official MGM logo, 1924-28

Jackie, the second lion, 1928-56

Tanner, 1934-56

George the Lion, 1956-57

Leo the Lion, 1957-83

Modernist logo used only in two films, Grand Prix (1966) and 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Leo the Lion in the MGM/UA Entertainment Co. logo, 1982-87

Leo the Lion, 1987-2008

Tom, 1963-67

Found via Big Fun

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I’m a dog person, not a cat person.

But cats seem to like me. The neighborhood cat – Eddie – fell in love with me, bringing me all sorts of dead things.

I’m also a bird person. And I’m not very happy about Eddie’s bird gifts. And in exchange, Eddie isn’t too keen about our two dogs.

Found via Aaron Bell

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‘yeah thats not what I was looking for at all.’

This is making its way around the interwebs. If you ask a designer for a ‘freebee,’ you never know what you’ll get. Read here.

Found via Laura Edmisten

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‘Tho all the maps of blood and flesh are posted on the door, theres no one who has told us yet what Boogie Street is for.’

Animation by cronogeo, featuring late 1920s woodcuts by ‘image novelist’ Franz Masareel (1889-1972).

Was recently reading about Masareel in David Berona’s beautiful edition, Wordless Books: The Original Graphic Novels.

Found via Oded Ezer, Belkind Scheps Osnat

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‘Do it for Frank’ -set in Cooper Black

The Black Keys’ Tighten Up, from the album Brothers.

Found via David Rosales

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Oswald Cooper’s most famous typeface gets a US postage stamp!

Well, sort of. But it is legal, usable US ‘Zazzle’ postage. Snag your’s here.

Designed by David M. Anderson.

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Also from Monsieur Bandit, a look at the incredible work of Italian street artists Sten and Lex.

Article here, video above. Flickr page here.

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Thomas Bernard and Florian Chevillard have invented The Printing Machine.

Presented at the Festival de l’Affiche in Chaumont, France.

It helps if you understand French. If not, that’s okay too.

Found via Monsieur Bandit

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‘While Western letterpress printing has made a recent revival, what was once considered one of the Four Great Inventions of Ancient China is no longer a sustainable practice in its country of origin.’

A look at Chinese movable type, article at idsgn.

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‘Tipoteca Italiana is a private foundation that was founded in 1995 to advance printing knowledge and preserve venerable printing technologies. Its founder, Silvio Antiga, a 65-year-old printer who owns a printing firm in the Veneto region, has collected more than 20 vintage presses and typesetting machines, along with hundreds of wood and metal type ‘fonts”

From T Magazine, Steven Heller looks at the incredible Tipoteca (tif) and where the term ‘font’ comes from.

I haven’t been there, but a friend visited several years ago – and brought me a whole bunch of really cool ephemera.

Found via Campbell BrownKorbel

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