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‘ohhhh THATS how i become a graphic designer.’

If you can touch your toes, you’re in.

Found via jescellophane

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‘if graphic design did not exist, information would suffer, you’d die, and things would be ugly.’

This weekend, my alma mater – San Jose State University – is putting on their 2010 senior graphic design show – with two receptions scheduled.

Tough school. Even Businessweek thinks so – SJSU is one of their top 60 D-Schools worldwide. Always incredible work.

receptions
Friday May 21 and Saturday May 22, 2010 at art ark gallery in San Jose, CA. Details here (click on the people to see their work). Blog here.

Exhibition runs just under a week. Ends Thursday May 27, 2010.

Tags: cool finds, design, education, exhibitions by steve
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‘I actually glued those letters to my finger’

Photography by Richard Roche.

Tags: cool finds, photography, typography by steve
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‘First and foremost, not everyone can be a designer’

Here’s a great post from former student Raina Dayne. Read it here.

Follow her on Twitter.

Pictured: Moon by R. Dayne

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‘Giacomo Mojoli, vice-president of Slow Food International, contemplates what it means to mutually contaminate the sphere of food sensoriality with the wider one of material, manufacturing and creative sensoriality’

Applying the concepts of the Slow Food movement to design.

NYT article here. Recent article here. Website here.

Take your time, make something better. Very William Morris-like.

Illustration by Leigh Wells for the NYT

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I have a small collection of vintage menus. Some cards, matchbooks, other ephemera. My Joe’s and Googie stuff.

They just don’t make em like this anymore. Beautiful utilitarian type suggesting odd specials and Braised Swiss Steak.

Nothing worse than walking into a small town diner and seeing a computer-generated mess passing itself off as a menu. Happens too much these days.

Pictured, some finds from Flickr (better than what I have). More here, here and here. Best book I’ve found on the subject, Jim Heimann’s May I Take Your Order?

Jackie Gleason Orchestra: Yesterdays

Tags: cool finds, culinary, design history by steve
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New blog animates some jackets. Gif style. Go here.

The Strokes: Take It Or Leave It

Found via Nina Stoessinger

Tags: cool finds, design history, music by steve
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Chandler 42 was one of my first typefaces – and one of the earliest ‘grunge’ typewriter font packages to hit the market.

It has details in it one won’t see in other autotraced typewriter adaptations. Eight fonts in the complete package. Snag your copy here.

Click on the above image to read/jump. Mood music below.

Randy Brooks And His Orchestra: Harlem Nocturne

Tags: design history, fonts, mehallo merchandise, typography by steve
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‘Drawing inspiration from WWII German Autobahn road signs and Helmut Lang’

Berkeley-based Autograph Creative’s United Nations poster and typeface.

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Found via Your Paper Heart

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‘Morteza Momayez (1936-2005) was a Tehran-based graphic designer of posters, covers, logos, and books.’ -Steven Heller

More here. And here.

Found via Reza Abedini

Tags: cool finds, design history, publication design by steve
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