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Ampersand Faux Cufflinks at Veer.

Found via swissmiss

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Fonts can’t handle being stretched, they end up looking awkward/slows down reading

Fonts require a lot of massaging in order for them to work for you. Here’s a list of some fairly common mistakes – posted over at The Design Cubicle.

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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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H (helvetica) from filnug on Vimeo

Found via i love typography

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Melbourne, Australia has a Landor-designed new identity, all built around some funky M treatments. More images 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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Photo op/visual metaphor/music video locale/nude model hangout: Detroit’s Michigan Central Station

The state of journalism in the US is a mess; what sells is often put ahead of the real news. Money (desire for/lack of) drives the system. If I want good international reporting, I tend to stick with the BBC. Domestically, it’s more fluff than not.

Here’s Vice magazine’s take on journalists descending on abandoned buildings in Detroit because they’re really good photo ops. Really.

Found via Twitter.com/okayokay

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‘For the past fifteen months I’ve created artwork in hopes of shedding light on the plight of innocent civilians under modern warfare. In this video I put my art to the music of Pink Floyd’s Goodbye Blue Sky.’
– posted by Marc Levine on MySpace, September 1st, 2008

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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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From 2003: What Barry Says by Simon Robson & Barry McNamara. Short anti-US fascism animation. This controversial film won Best Animation at the Brooklyn International Film Festival in 2004.

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At the beginning of 2003, I got involved with Another Poster For Peace, a group of graphic designers who did not agree with the Iraqi war. It just didn’t make sense to us, so we created copyright free protest posters that anyone can download and use. It wasn’t popular sentiment at the time, but was the right thing to do.

When the war started, I was following a blog of a young student in Baghdad; who was photographing and watching the skies, waiting for what was going to come. I followed up until the time his blog stopped reporting, then went down. I wonder what happened to him.

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