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tokyo camouflage

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an amusing project from japanese design graduate haruka matsubara

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who has created clothing to blend in with typical street scenes from tokyo, where neon signs, overhead cables and a mish-mash of architectural styles all collide…

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(link via ‘doctor strange’)

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m / 01-08-2015 10:48 - tags: , , , ,  

marked for ill-doing

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a little article from the bbc website, that examines the origins of an omnipresent word in the modern world

m / 01-08-2015 10:42 - tags: , , ,  

true colours

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in the category ‘unusual news’ this week:

the population of new zealand is being asked via a referendum, to decide what their new flag should be

shown above are some of the early designs of which four have been chosen (below) as options for the referendum, it seems like a clear choice to me…

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m / 01-07-2015 10:34 - tags: , , ,  

mo’re:

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the metropole orkest asked me to create a masthead/logo for their new newsletter, entitled MOre:

the final design was not just a logo but a complete cover solution with a typographic form that can be filled with enlarged details from images; to create a simple and striking series of cover variations…

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m / 29-06-2015 08:35 - tags: ,  

mid-century german

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an incredible collection of german graphic design…

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…from (roughly) the past 100 years, which i came across by chance recently… enjoy this huge flickr set

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m / 29-06-2015 08:33 - tags: , , , , , ,