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Visual Acoustics, the new documentary profiling modernist photographer Julius Shulman (1910-2009) is now screening in select locations around the country.

More info at Grain Edit. Visit the Visual Acoustics site here.

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I’ve developed photographic visuals for the past three versions of The Unicode Standard. Unicode is a programming language that makes it possible for computers to operate in any language. This Wiki explains it better than I can.

The Unicode Standard 5.0, wraparound cover by mehallo

Working on the Unicode materials has been an incredible learning process – both from a technical standpoint as well as cultural. These are some of my images.

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The work of Owen Gildersleeve of Evening Tweed.

Found via CHRIS – TO – PHER

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‘Talk about a psychedelic mimicking of rubricated blackletter!’ –Tiffany Wardle

South Central Swiss is a free fontstruct by dom nokes (domald). Grab it here.

Check out domald’s other fontstructs here.

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Varanasi, India
Photography by Jayson Carpenter; website, blog

Sacramento ADAC returns with a new location and a Tuesday night talk.

Illustrator David Danz and photographer Jayson Carpenter will be talking shop November 10th, 2009, 6:30 p.m. at the American Institute of Architects Central Valley [AIACV] Building in Sacramento [map]. Details here.

Illustration by David Danz; website, blog

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‘Nil basterdo carborundum’

I did Pecha Kucha back in January and it was a blast. And since, Sacramento’s Pecha Kucha group has grown by leaps and a few bounds.

Happening this week is a three-night Pecha Kucha Grand Slam – brought to you by Ottolini & Associates, Architects. Co-sponsored by Capital Creative Collective and Urban Hive. Over a DOZEN really cool speakers! Designers, artists, photographers, architects. With music by the always incredible Alex Trujillo.

[1] Thursday, November 5th, 2009
The Level Up Lounge Outdoor Plaza, 8:20-10 p.m.

[2] Friday, November 6th, 2009
The Urban Hive 8:20-10 p.m.

[3] Saturday, November 7th, 2009
MARRS Building 8:20-10 p.m.

For more about Pecha Kucha in Sacramento (and worldwide) go here. (And I’m not one of the speakers this time. But I will do it again eventually)

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Continuing in NYC is Barbara Kruger’s typography-based exhibition about media bombardment, Between Being Born and Dying. Show runs thru November 21. More info here and here.

Found via Michael Martinho

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Designed by UK-based design student Alex Creamer. Details here.

Found via Ashley Simko

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More from the UK: Chocochic Very Vanilla Almonds Covered in White Chocolate. Brand and packaging designed by Pure Equator.

Found via Popsop

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Something weird happened between now and the 1970s. Vanilla turned brown. Or beige. Or something like that.

I remember Shasta Creme Soda used to come in a metallic blue can. A lot like their cola can, but more of a turquoise blue. To find something vanilla, all one had to do was look for the blue packaging. It was a design standard.

Joyva Halvah (above) still gets it. They still use their old can design.

Vanilla was blue. Something happened and it isn’t anymore.

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A few years back the incredible Marian Bantjes sent me this wonderful Hallowe’en poster. Earlier the same year, I had put her work in an exhibition.

Marian’s post on heraldry is one of my favs. And check out her 10th Anniversary cover for GQ Italia, ’10 designers, 10 covers  . . .  10 years of men, stories, adventures and style.’

Happy Hallowe’en!

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