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Lite-Bright typography created by Brooklyn-based GrandArmy

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Vintage Lite-Brite commercial

Found via Type Theory

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Sketch-3D drawing tool by o2 Creative Solutions

Found via Core77

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Apple Evolution: Visual History of Apple Products via Fandome
Featuring Fiona Apple’s cover of Across the Universe

Also, check out my other post about Braun and Apple.

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‘I was warned, ‘Once you go Mac, you won’t go back’  . . .  
They were right, whoever it was.’ – Natasha Newton, visual artist

Enjoying my new iMac. Heaps faster than my old machine.

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Project Runway returns tonight. And note that fashion design is just one industry over from graphic design. What I like most is: students who watch can know what to expect from my critiques and timed exercises. In fact, just a few weeks back I used for class – almost verbatim – a challenge from Runway’s diet doppelganger, Bravo replacement The Fashion Show.

And ever since Runway’s been on the air, I’ve been able to do really tough critiques without too many screamfests resulting (well, mostly). And the peppy dance music then has a reason. But my Tim Gunn impersonation: needs a plenitude of practice.

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With the sign off of traditional US broadcast television back in June, space aliens are going to be missing out on Jay Leno at 10 and more of the Real Lives of Jersey Moms or whatever that show is called.

Found via Strange Maps, via Abstruse Goose

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Found via ffffound, via iLOVE

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Veer’s sixth annual Summer Activity Book for creatives, it’s too good to be true! Forty two pages as a handy downloadable PDF.

Found via Twitter.com/gingdd

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Line art by Steve Masseroni

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Steve Masseroni is an incredible artist I knew in high school. He was dabbling with working for Marvel Comics at the time, but set out in his own direction. In a afternoon critique in 1985, he gave me his favorite brush and a few tips on being an illustrator. [Read more →]

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Illustration for my high school yearbook, 1985

Fill out this survey about your senior year of high school!

1. Did you date someone from your school?
No one would date me.

2. Did you marry someone from your high school?
Nope. Married someone whose father went to my high school. Suzanne Somers went to my high school. We all talked about that. Her father was my father’s drinking buddy. She married a guy named Allen. He didn’t go to our school. He was Canadian. [Read more →]

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The thing is, there’s some mainstream stuff on the list too. To peruse, simply jump over to Designer Daily.

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