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Brendan Dawes’ cool little tribute to graphic designer Saul Bass.

Tags: cool finds, design history by steve
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‘For the MuseumStore, typographer Jack Stauffacher designed a special line of products using the SFMOMA letters. Items include T-shirts, canvas tote bags, reusable grocery bags, mugs, ceramic double-walled coffee cups, and acrylic tumblers’

Details here. (Products are not quite at the SFMOMA site yet, hopefully they are coming soon!)

Plus
At Design Observer, Book Shelves from Stauffacher’s Greenwood Press. Photographs by Dennis Letbetter.

Tags: cool finds, design, photography, typography by steve
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‘With over 1,000 examples in categories such as animals, circles, faces, or science, it’s fun to browse and serves as a curious retrospective of American entrepreneurism.’ -Fast Company

Eric Baker and Tyler Blik wrote one of the first logo books I ever owned. And their latest is the densely-packed American Trademarks: A Compendium.

Snag your copy here. Read the Fast Company review (with related links and a slideshow) here.

Found via Jamal Ahmad

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Knitting & Sewing Doodles, a dingbat font by Wisconsin-based Rae Kaiser. Available at MyFonts.

Tags: cool finds, design, fashion, fonts, typography by steve
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Available on a shirt.

Found via Dottie Stephenie Angelique Cashero

Tags: cool finds, fashion, typography by steve
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Pick a big letter from my Jeanne Moderno fonts – select any of the shirts available thru Zazzle – order, wait for them to custom print, watch for postal person, open box when it arrives.

Wear it with pride.

Order your own (or a few) here.

Tags: fashion, fonts, mehallo merchandise, typography by steve
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Wear your hero. Get em here.

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Great collection over at imgfave.

Found via Michael Reilly

Tags: cool finds, illustration, typography by steve
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Found visual materials – such as ‘hardware catalogs, magazines, EU flags, product labels, forms or instructions for use,’ reorganized and reinterpreted into a poster series by students at Fachhochschule Mainz.

New order, new design. Details here (in German). Also here (in poorly translated English).

Posters (and other cool stuff) can be snagged here.

Tags: education by steve
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Everything’s been done before, right? Collection of inspirational posters (and their related ilk) here.

Tags: cool finds, design history, illustration, typography by steve
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It’s always nice when a free font is actually a damn good font.

The normal weight of Fontfabric’s new Solomon is now available free.

The catch? You have to snag your copy – thru MyFonts – before May 10, 2010.

It’s a teaser to purchase the rest, but hey – Solomon is really nifty alternate to Lubalin’s Avant Garde family.

Good type free. What’s not to love?

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