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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 world of graphic designer Laurie Rosenworld.

Illustration and fonts.

And here’s the Sweden/Nymphomaniac story.

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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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HE incredible Jessica Hische is also from Hazleton, PA.

Knows what a good Eastern Pennsylvania snack pitza is. Knows about this thing called Root Liquor (which I didn’t know about; I just know about Birch Beer, my favorite beverage from back there). And she’s been doing a drop cap a day for a few months now.

Drop caps, initial caps go wayyyy back – mainstays of illuminated manuscripts, and they’re part of the reason we’re still using caps today (for beginnings of sentences, names).

Jessica provides code to add caps to your own blog. Grab em here.

ND, as of last month, the caps are available as prints. Archival, on velvet coated fine art paper.

But that’s not all. Jessica has a bunch of other cool stuff in her store, including this wonderful ‘Day-Runining’ notepad (pics below). The pad has individual sheets one can send to unruly clients who don’t pay for your services, waste your time and – of course – ruin your day.

Order the pad here. Order the Drop Cap prints here.

And
Visit Jessica’s complete store here.

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One more by Lunchbreath at Core77.

Found via James Saturnio

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Over the years, I’ve done many variations of each of these.

Found via James Saturnio

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No IKEA nearby? Here’s a recipe.

Illustration by Lunchbreath.

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Click on the images to explore/make bigger/jump.

Interactive edition here.

Art by Sean McNaughton, National Geographic Staff; Samuel Velasco, 5W Infographics

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‘Vintage Ads Reveal Fashions And Trends In Type And Commercial Lettering’

Check out Vintage Ad Browser.

And
Great article about how to typographically mimic these looks at The Font Feed.

Found via The Font Feed

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‘Collection of vintage logos from a mid-70’s edition of the book World of Logotypes’

Eric Carl’s Flickr set here.

Found via Oded Ezer

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A bunch of years ago, Pomme Chan’s work caught my eye. And I almost featured her illustrations in a group design exhibition. Almost. Logistics sort of got in the way.

Her website is here.

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