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‘What will future generations condemn us for?’
‘Here are four contenders for future moral condemnation: Our prison system; industrial meat production; the institutionalized and isolated elderly; the environment’
Often I just look at the news and wonder how fucking stupid we’re going to look to future generations.
We have a lot to answer for. I found a great breakdown in The Washington Post. Read it here.
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Above – just to contrast – is Walt Disney’s original plan for EPCOT, outlined in a 1966 short film. Made a couple months before Disney’s death.
Testing nukes, a record
‘Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto has created a beautiful, undeniably scary time-lapse map of the 2,053 nuclear explosions which have taken place between 1945 and 1998.’
Over the years, the US has set off over a thousand nukes. Something I never really knew.
Skip thru to the early 1960s and the multiples of blasts end up looking like Christmas lights.
Found via Marian Bantjes
‘Colorful mind’
The work of Lim Heng Swee.
Pink Floyd: Breathe in the Air/On the Run (demo versions)
Found via Robert Boord
Barack Obama, font savvy
‘Can we add serifs to Gotham?’
One thing I like about Obama: He knows good design.
In 2008, his campaign lifted political propaganda out of the long ass slump it had been in. The fonts of choice were Eric Gill’s Perpetua and Tobias Frere-Jones’ Gotham.
And revealed this week: 2012 graphics featuring a custom slab serif version of Gotham.
So when The President calls wanting a font change, Hoefler & Frere-Jones were ready to oblige.
Found via Hoefler & Frere-Jones
Alexey Brodovitch, good layout
‘There is no recipe for good layout, but what must be maintained is a feeling of change and contrast.’ –Alexey Brodovitch (1898-1971)
Photo by Man Ray, layout by Brodovitch for Harper’s Bazaar, 1934.
Lillian Bassman, form and light
‘Her work was published for the most part in Harper’s Bazaar, between 1950-1965.’
The photography of Lillian Bassman. Beautiful geometric constructs shot in black and white.
Music by Budd/Wright, In the Midst of Life.
Warby Parker eyewear
‘For every pair of glasses you purchase, Warby Parker will donate a pair to someone in need’
Vintage styling, Netflix-like purchasing system, charitable donation.
All frames 95 bucks. Details here. Buy here.
Found via Shandi Pierzina
Dryden whisky
Canadian Club advertisement, 1928.
The work of commercial illustrator and fashion design pioneer Ernst Dryden (1887-1938).
BERN HARD Fashion in metal
‘Bernhard Fashion. This typeface was designed by Lucian Bernhard and introduced by American Typefounders in 1929.’
Found via Emily McGuiness
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a piano falls in old manhattan
tetro and typography
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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buy my fonts
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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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