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‘[Spy] was cruel, brilliant, beautifully written and perfectly designed, and feared by all.’ –Dave Eggers

SPY Magazine. The New York monthly. The most influential magazine of its time. The Rosetta Stone of modern periodical publishing. Really.

SPY took celebrities and the super rich to task for being, well, celebrities and super rich. Donald Trump was a frequent target. And the best part: SPY was caustically funny and incredibly smart in the way it did what it did. [Read more →]

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The photography of Joanna Kustra for EksMagazyn.

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‘Embodies this season’s reoccurring theme of understated elegance’

Model Arizona Muse. Photographer Willy Vanderperre. Editorial for LOVE Magazine.

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Emma Watson continues her ‘eco clothing’ collaboration with People Tree.

More info here and here.

New items below, click to view/jump. The rest of the collection drops February 28.

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The work of Teagan White.

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From Bisgràfic studio: The Positive Posters. Info here.

Found via Zachariah Moreno

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Fresh from my mailbox: A set of Valentines from the great Marian Bantjes.

And if you haven’t already, be sure to snag her incredible I Wonder.

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‘In daily life and at work, the analogue production world is far away for the majority of people’

This year’s calendar from Thomas Krug and Traffic goes back to basics.

Less digital, more tactile. Screen printed art punctuated by laser dies and perfs. Each month has ‘show thru’ to the next.

2011 artists include Wlodzimierz Szwed (type), Dirk Pokoj (ink, paint, screen), Gisela Berger (pastose, acrylic, graphite) and John T. Manshaupt (red chalk, Chinese ink/acrylic).

For more about the Traffic Agency go here.

(And here’s another look at last year’s offering)

Thanks to Thomas Krug; and to Carrie Svozil for holding this year’s award-winning kalender for the camera

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Found via Laura Wong

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‘Interesting to see which colors went first. PMS 485, PMS 183 and Silver 877 seemed to be the most popular’

Kim Neill’s Pantone color chips in tasty cookie format.

Details and recipe here.

Found via Chank Diesel

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‘AdViews is a digital archive of thousands of vintage television commercials dating from the 1950s to the 1980s’

Website here.

Found via Daniel Will-Harris

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