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‘In the 70s they called it war paint’ -Sven Voelker

A look at the graphic design of racing cars – an overview of the new book by Sven Voelker, Go Faster. Article and video here.

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‘And no matter what the locals tell you, don’t take the pink line to the yellow line.’ -Gizmodo

Speaking of the Underground, here’s Sam Lomen’s Underskin.

Found via Justin Nelson

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‘TYPEFACE is a piece of custom software that translates facial dimensions into generative type design.’

By CIID student Mary Huang. Check out this detailed article at PSFK.

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Procrastination by Johnny Kelly.

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Oded Ezer gave a talk last Friday at the London College of Communication. He sported a ‘humble homage to the British 70-80s Punk movement: the Typo-mohawk.’

More photos here.

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‘A chance to re-design any classic book is always exciting. Classics usually allow for a more personal interpretation, since most people are already vaguely familiar with the premise of the books, and I didn’t have to compete with one well-known cover, as I might have with a more recent book.’

The work of Jim Tierney. More book jacket details here.

Would make Doc Brown proud.

Found via ColourOfAir and Jessica Hische

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‘Verschillende Science Fiction verhalen’

Dutch designer Dick Bruna’s vintage book covers.

Flickr set here. Online archive here.

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Academy of Art graduate design student Alex Cornell’s super cool Playboy rebrand project. Details (and additional photos) at the ISO50 Blog.

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‘The Haiti Poster Project seeks limited edition sets of posters from artists, designers and design firms from around the world. The donated posters will be sold online to raise money for Doctors Without Borders.’

Deadline is March 15, 2010. Details here. Some poster entries (below) are being shown on the Haiti Poster Project Facebook page.

Poster entry by the great Ivan Chermayeff

‘I wanted to create a series of these posters to spark peoples intrest in texting to donate to the relief fund. I only finished this brad pit one.’ -Matt Stallings

Poster entry by Wertzateria

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SOTA’s Font Aid IV jumped into action a few weeks ago – to benefit the victims of the recent earthquake in Haiti.

The result was released today. A collaborative font that is now available here (thru Ascender). And here (thru Veer). It will be available in other places too, MyFonts later this week.

The font sells for 20 bucks (US) and all proceeds go to Doctors Without Borders to help the people of Haiti recover from the devastating earthquake.

The font consists of just under 400 ampersands from type designers from around the world – including myself (see below).

For more about ampersands, history and use, read Steve Matteson’s article here. For more about Font Aid IV, go here.

That be mine

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