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‘Art Chantry Speaks: A Heretic’s History of 20th Century Graphic Design’ by Art Chantry
Art Chantry is a con artist. The great con is the world of graphic design, and despite his protests to the contrary, Chantry is an artist. Like a magician revealing how his tricks are done, Chantry spills all in his new Feral House book Art Chantry Speaks: A Heretic’s History of 20th Century Graphic Design. Examples of his heresy to the trade abound, but I particularly enjoyed this quote, “Designers need to be aware out there. This stuff we do isn’t ‘art‘-it’s marketing language and propaganda."
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Aaron Draplin Takes On a Logo Design Challenge
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How Pantone Colors Your World
Why your wardrobe is wine-hued this year. By Claire Cameron.
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Web Design - The First 100 Years
Designers! I am a San Francisco computer programmer, but I come in peace!
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The Fourth Wall
A Rare View of Famous European Theater Auditoriums Photographed from the Stage
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A Brutalist Wonderland in the South
A personal take on the first post-war planned community in the U.S
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Syd Mead, the Artist Who Illustrates the Future
Gouache rendering titled "San Angeles," a cityscape for Blade Runner (1981). The original of this painting was lost on tour when exhibited in 1991.
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The Android logo seems to be inspired by Keith Haring paintings from the '80s
Officially it is claimed to be inspired by bathroom signage, but I personally find the resemblance so similar as to question the idea that it played no part in the inspiration.
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A look at Elon Musk's Hyperloop competition
Elon Musk, the SpaceX CEO and founder, announces a design competition for his revolutionary open source Hyperloop transportation concept. It will take place in 2016.
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NSFW Why the modern sex toy doesn't look like a human penis anymore
Until recently, sex toys for women were grotesque in how closely they resembled real human anatomy. Then designers started taking the industry seriously.
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Mandala Drawerer: A mandala drawing program built with Dart
Become a mandala drawerer, create and share Mandalas.
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If phones were designed to please their owners, rather than corporations
Your smartphone was designed to deliver as much value as possible to its manufacturer, carrier and OS vendor, leaving behind the smallest amount of value possible while still making it a product that you'd be willing to pay for and use. But in south China, the absence of patent and copyright enforcement, combined with enormous manufacturing and design capacity, means that phones for the domestic market are wildly innovative -- more than just endless variations on glass-distraction-rectangles.
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The Life and Untimely Death of Technology's Weirdest Logo
In 1988 Timothy Wilkinson, a British designer at frog design in Silicon Valley, was tasked with creating a logo for the biggest peripheral maker in the world: Logitech. The company kept Wilkinson’s logo around for almost 30 years. And while it long seemed weird to me, it’s also completely brilliant.
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iTunes Really Is That Bad
It’s not just unreliable. Apple’s signature media software makes bizarre, arbitrary design choices, which are uncharacteristic of the world’s most valuable company.
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45 Amazing Sites (and Resources) for Stirring Up Your Creativity
These are 45 amazing creativity resources that can stir up your creative instinct. If you need inspiration and motivation to take your product or business to the next-level, you will find these resources, ideas, projects, designs, videos, predictions and innovations useful.
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Top shower tile ideas and designs to tiling a shower
The latest catalogue of shower tile ideas and shower tile designs, innovate ideas on how to tile a shower wall, tiling a shower with unique and modern shower tile patterns, colors, designs and materials, best bathroom shower tile ideas 2015
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Sexism & Fonts
My five-year-old son asked me this question the day Positype released its promotional site for Lust Hedonist. The Lust Series, a self-described “overly indulgent attempt to infuse wanton sensuality in a typeface,” features a variety of formal contrasts: sharp and curvy serifs, thin counters combined with thick bodies. It is the work of Neil Summerour, known for his crowd-pleasing fonts and lettering, and it is striking.
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Get Ready for The World's Tallest and Longest Slide
The 376-foot tall ArcelorMittal Orbit sculpture designed by Anish Kapoor and Cecil Balmond for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London will soon be home to the world's longest and tallest slide.
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Folding Steel: New Floating Staircase for a Refab Attic Space
The challenge: replace a standard skinny ladder leading up to an unfinished attic with working stairs ... but they must be able to wrap within the same limited confines of a tiny landing. The solution: an elegant folded sheet of steel.
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Chalk Artist Leon Keer Draws Playful Optical Illusions on the Street
There’s a secret to looking at Dutch chalk artist Leon Keer’s whimsical largescale drawings on the street. At ground level, one might mistake his puddle of melting gummy bears mourning their friend, ghosts chasing Pacman through a maze, or the excavation of a terracotta army of lego-men for abstract works of art.
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