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Pop-up book master – and paper engineer – David A. Carter has been expanding his art into geometric abstraction.

Inspired by the work of Alexander Calder (1898-1976), Carter’s Red Dot series will be on display at the Blue Line Gallery in Roseville, CA [map]

The opening reception is this weekend: Saturday, September 19th, 2009 from 6:30 – 9 p.m.

Read The Sacramento Bee article here.
Show information here.
Exhibition runs thru January 9, 2010.

Found via Jonathan Weast

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John Baskerville (1706-1775) was an incredible type designer. His work holds up very well today. He reinvented printing and his ink was beyond compare. And, unfortunately, he was hated by his contemporaries. His type was seen to ‘hurt the eye’ and would be ‘responsible for blinding the nation.’

‘Baskerville the Animated Movie celebrates John Baskerville, the man, the typeface and his future legacy.’

For more about this short film, drop by The Baskerville Project website.

For more detail about John Baskerville and other famous type luminaries, snag a copy of Type: The Secret History of Letters and start reading.

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Robyn Waxman’s FARM project broke ground Saturday March 28, 2009 – with the goal to build a 66 foot long community-servicing/maintained farm on a toxic strip of land in San Francisco. FARM is in full swing on Hooper Street, which segments the SF campus of California College of the Arts. The project now has plans to branch out into Davis and Sacramento.

Find out more about FARM here.

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Introducing Stephen Coles’ new Fontstruct: WPA Gothic. Based on the posters of the Works Progress Administration.

Click here for free download and more info.

For more about Fontstruct, go here.

And here’s some highlights from the Library of Congress’ WPA collection  . . .

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Google conspiracy theory animation by Ozan Halici & Jürgen Mayer. Bachelors’ Thesis at the University of Applied Sciences, Ulm, Germany.

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Pictorial Webster’s: Inspiration to Completion from John Carrera on Vimeo

‘as a source for creativity in the human brain’
Yesterday, I thumbed thru Chronicle Books’ trade edition of Johnny Carrera’s Pictorial Webster’s: A Visual Dictionary of Curiosities. The video (above) details the inspiration for the project, historical cataloging, Linotype setting, as well as the design and hand binding of the fine press editions.

More detailed details are posted here. Also, check out the very Victorian Wall Cards and Stamp Set.

Carrera is the proprietor of Quercus Press, based in Waltham, Massachusetts.

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Hm. Starting to see problems with approaching life as a bohemian.

Found via Strange Maps

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I used to count ‘graphic design’ as one of the Seven Deadly Sins – I had it listed among the sins on an old business card (replacing ‘gluttony,’ of course).

Kansas State University Geography students have visualized the sins as regional, at least in the US. View the maps here.

Found via One Floor Up

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Maps of War’s History of Religion

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Maps of War’s Imperial History of the Middle East

Found via Twitter.com/mehallokitty

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From the Histeria! series, here’s a cartoon overview of the invention of printing   . . .   well, actually the invention of moveable type   . . .   well, whatever it was that ‘Type A’ Gutenberg guy did.

Found via Twitter.com/MyFonts

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