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Rumsey Taylor’s 2005 Saul Bass site features detailed interactive, frame-by-frame analysis of Bass’ movie title work; as well as some movie reviews.

View em in detail here.

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‘Bass on Titles presents a comprehensive, well-rounded retrospective of Academy Award-winner, Saul Bass’ film title sequence design.’

With really bizarre dialog screwy sound looping fx. Watch it above. From 1977.

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Wear your hero. Get em here.

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Snag em here.

Found via Aaron Bell

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‘Move over fun, there’s a new sheriff in town, and his name is Typo Tofu. Typo Tofu is also the funnest way to stay healthy and learn to read at the same time. Quite the double whammy.’ -Michael Hines

Designed by Uqam design student Jean-Maxime Landry. Details here and here.

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‘chair created by starchitects kazuyo sejima and ryue nishizawa of sanaa architects’

Details here.

I pronounce the nontraditional ‘Y’ in Yeaster. Doesn’t everyone?

Found via Gábor Kóthay

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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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‘MoMA’s announced what might be its boldest acquisition ever. And it didn’t even cost anything: The ‘@’ symbol is now a part of the museum’s permanent design collection.’

Article here.

Pictured above, the @ symbol from Goudy’s Bertham font.

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The work of Mabona Origami for ASICS. Creative director: Lars Rühmann, Nordpol+ Hamburg.

Found via Gábor Kóthay

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‘Guilloché machines (also known as geometric lathes) have been used since the 17th century by watchmakers and goldsmiths, such as Fabergè, for ornamentation.’

Subblue’s Guilloché Pattern Generator.

Found via Nina Stössinger

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‘Ten steps to becoming the designer you want to be’

Thinking about being a designer?

Here’s a great article at the GOOD site by Laura Seargeant Richardson – go here and read up. There’ll be a quiz later.

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