…Un match visuel amical entre ces deux villes, c’est le regard d’un amoureux de Paris sur un New York rempli de détails, de clichés et de contradictions : suivez le guide…
nice visual blog comparing paris to new york…
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upper and lowercase
…richard Nixon was inaugurated for his second term as president of the United States in 1974 – and shortly thereafter became embroiled in the Watergate scandal that caused him to resign the office. In that same year the first handheld cellular phone call was made, “The Godfather, Part II” won best movie of the year at the Academy Awards, and Secretariat became the first horse in over 25 years to win U.S. horseracing’s triple crown. ITC also began publishing U&lc, The International Journal of Typographics in 1974. Herb Lubalin was the editorial and art director of the first issue and his seminal design set the stage for future issues of trend setting and award winning editorial creations…
all of the back issues of this seminal typography journal are being put online for free, how kind
blindingly obvious
…truly creative people see things differently. Instead of seeing problems, they see obvious solutions. Look around you. What everyday objects or services have changed the world and make life better?…
join the search for the obvious
pictures and words
… from marian bantjes
…It’s very common for designers and people in the visual arts to feel like we’re not contributing enough. Or worse, that all we’re doing is contributing to landfill. Here I am showing you some pretty visuals and talking about aesthetics but I’ve come to believe that truly imaginative visual work is extremely important in society. Just in the way that I’m inspired by books and magazines of all kinds, conversations I have, movies, so I also think, when I put visual work out there, into the mass media, work that is interesting, unusual, intriguing, work that maybe opens up that sense of inquiry in the mind, that I’m seeding the imagination of the populous, and you just never know who is going to take something from that and turn it into something else. Because inspiration is cross-pollinating… I want as many people as possible to see my work. I actually really feel that it’s worthwhile to spend my valuable and limited time on this earth in this way…
fontspring
yet another new contender in the race to get more fonts online: fontspring