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a tally of two cities

…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…

m / 31-10-2010 10:40 - tags: ,  

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

m / 31-10-2010 10:35 - tags:  

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

m / 31-10-2010 10:32 - tags: , ,  

daily design periodic table

…every element in the periodic table….please do not use them as actual reference for the elements as some of them may be a little more abstract than others…

nice illustration set from ‘workerman’ (via my mate ‘thijs’ thank you)

m / 30-10-2010 22:32 - tags: ,  

the information experience

i’ve been invited to take part in the alpha test of new online database qwiki, i tried it out but their database might just need updating a bit: according to them this is what a graphic designer looks like…

m / 30-10-2010 22:24 - tags: ,