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Coffee, book
December’s books are gonna be:
Simon Garfield’s Mauve – followed up/balanced out with Darrell Hammond’s autobiography God, If You’re Not Up There, I’m Fucked.
Photo found via Strange Little Girls
Typography, iced
Final project from my beginning typography course at American River College: Futura Condensed Extra Bold, crafted as iced chocolate cake by student Lilie Matyuk.
Food-based type is always a tricky undertaking, but luckily we had Teresa Urkofsky teaching next door – in the culinary classroom. Teresa had recipes and techniques ready to advise.
Dee’s Legendary Stop-Motion Biscuit Cake
‘In an effort to win Cully & Sully’s Cheffactor, a cooking competition in Ireland, Alan Travers created the Stop-Motion Biscuit Cake video of his girlfriend Dee’s legendary chocolate biscuit cake’
Found via Laughing Squid
Salt and pepper
“Heroin’ has 3 holes for pepper. ‘Cocaine’ has one hole for salt.’
The work of David Shrigley. Shakers available here, website here.
Found via Me And My Big Mouth
Food in Jars
I love canning stuff. And it’s getting to be the time of year to cram some stuff into bottles.
Pictured, logo design by Roger Estes for Marisa McClellan’s Food in Jars blog.
A color-coded Ralphs
‘And so was born the ‘shop-at-a-glance’ concept’
An ill-fated design experiment from 1965: Ralphs remodeled with departmentalized, color-coded graphic icons. Article here.
I use a lot of color coding in my own work – but with the assumption that the end user will need other organizational tools to find their way around. ‘Shop-at-a-glance’ never quite caught on; tho I’d love to see what data Ralphs collected as part of their process.
Found via Pleasant Family Shopping
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a piano falls in old manhattan
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it’s typography: film, song and dance
ghosts of gustov klimt
the great times new roman controversy
picking fonts
kapitaal
defining terms: design is not decoration
garcia's 'pure design'
'enhance that image!'
magic highway remixed
the cynic
rad anthem
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Divinely Elegant: The World of Ernst Dryden
Jozsef Pecsi: Photo and Advertising
Color: A Natural History of the Palette
Collage: Assembling Contemporary Art
Modern Dog: 20 Years of Poster Art
Gaberbocchus Press: An Experiment in Publishing, 1948-1979
Advertising Art in the Art Deco Style
Googie Redux: Ultramodern Roadside Architecture
Hot Sour Salty Sweet: A Culinary Journey Through Southeast Asia
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