Grafica Della Strada, The Signs Of Italy
It starts with a 16 year old Louise Fili traveling to Italy, stepping off the plane, and falling in love with a billboard. That moment marked the start of Fili’s typographic obsession, and budding career in graphic design. (more…)
Brazilian Movie Posters
Poster for God and the Devil in the Land of the Sun, 1964 I truly love movies and movie posters. Currently Brazilian film is experiencing a kind of renaissance, but it was not always this way. In this post I’d like to share a series of posters for Brazilian cinema,...
Read MoreThe Blue Lady’s New Look
From JKR, the Camden based packaging design agency, comes an intriguing collection of marketing and branding quips titled “The Blue Lady’s New Look and Other Curiosities: Posts from the Crossroads of Design and Marketing.”
My New Favorite Maps
These typographic maps are the real deal. Although typographic maps are not a new idea, few are created manually. Even fewer possess the degree of quality seen here.
Monocle Alpino, Anti-iPad Device
Monocle’s Alpino newspaper may be called an experiment, but it’s a successful extension to the Monocle brand—a great variation on a theme.
Eastern European Matchbox Labels
Mid-century mass production printing on cardboard has a unique look that’s emulated quite a bit these days.
Jan Tschichold for Penguin Scores, 1949
Oliver Tomas has posted some nice mid-century visual inspiration with his Penguin Book Covers Flickr Collection.
Making Grids with Sigurður Ármannsson’s Easy Grid Calculator
Sigurður Ármannsson explains how to use his Easy Grid Calculator to produce square document grid units based on leading.
Supergraphics from Unit Editions
Supergraphics just arrive at my desk. Unit Editions has a knack for superlative documentation of creative objects…
The Story Behind Angry Paul Rand
“Over three months in the Summer of 2010, in addition to my normal Twitter account @mgoldst, I had a Twitter account by the name of @AngryPaulRand. Like every designer I have ever met, I had some things I had always wanted to say, and using Paul Rand as a...
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Gary Anderson, Designer of ♻
“It has been called one of America’s “most important design icons,” it is one of the most recognizable graphic symbols in the world and has helped to encourage global recycling. In some countries, such as the UK, the symbol carries such implicit meaning that it requires government permission to...
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Nijhof & Lee: Amsterdam’s Best Bookstore
No graphic designer or typophile should miss a trip to Nijhof & Lee.
Werner Herzog’s Rogue Film School
“Werner Herzog’s Rogue School. This is how graphic design should be taught” http://bit.ly/9VTzIt (via @AJWShaughnessy)
Unit Editions Makes Books for Designers
From Adrian Shaughnessy and Tony Brook comes Unit Editions, a south London publishing company producing books on design and visual culture. I talked with Adrian Shaughnessy to get up to speed with what’s in store at Unit Editions.
Rob Janoff on the Design of the Apple Logo
Ivan Raszl interviews Rob Janoff, the original designer of the Apple logo…
Slide Projectors & Intuition
David Carson might drive the gridnicks mad, but you can’t deny his ability to provoke a visceral response. Carson’s work in the early 90s tore a hole in graphic design. His typography, piled in broken heaps, managed to breath life into stodgy corporate communications. His work may look haphazard at...
Read MoreSlide Projectors & Intuition
David Carson might drive the gridnicks mad, but you can’t deny his ability to provoke a visceral response. Carson’s work in the early 90s tore a hole in graphic design. His typography, piled in broken heaps, managed to breath life into stodgy corporate communications. His work may look haphazard at...
Read MoreSurprise + Clarity = Delight
I couldn’t agree more with Shane Bzdok (Thinking for a Living) about the integration of structure and emotion in graphic design. Surprise + Clarity. Link via BBDK
Bildschöne Bücher
Bodo von Hodenberg of Berlin’s Bildschöne Bücher offers a novel angle to book dealing. Born out of his successful 25books.com, Hodenberg takes a curatorial approach to selling books on photography, art and design. See a video on Bildschöne Bücher at Monocle.