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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
1.The Birdie lamp, from Flux, in Sweeden.
2. This building, created by the architects Denton Corker Marshall, in Manchester, England. (Seen at Dezeen).
3.These images from knight games held by Emperor Frederick III and Emperor Maximilian II in the years 1489 to 1511, found in BibliOdyssey.
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Thursday, September 25th, 2008
I remember reading once that "beautiful design was invisible".
When I see what the duo Hi, from Switzerland, has been doing in editorial (mainly), I must agree. Simple, elegant and somehow astonishing. And I simply can't explain why.
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Monday, September 22nd, 2008
Has anyone checked out the D&AD website for the year finals?
There are some very well designed magazines to look at. Good examples from every mark in the range between the mass-traditional-magazine-market and the super-alternative-conceptual zine. Here are my favorites:
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Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
Has anyone seen that? A beautiful animation over an interview that a 14-year-old Beatles fanatic named Jerry Levitan made with John Lennon. Apparently, it was also nominated for an Oscar for "Best Animated Short" at the 2008 Academy Awards.
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Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
More of collections: in the "to the virtual home of the Wiedler family" you can find over 470 "book (design) stories" which means the pages, some spreads and some comments on the design and the history of each one, including the year (the innocents will see how today's "new" work ...
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Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
Take a look at this interesting collector's item: hotel door hangers, from the the blogger Michael Lobowitz's grandfather. Funny to see how the language and visuals changes to say the same thing, according to the place they were found.
Fun!
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
There are things which are not actually beautiful, but extremely intriguing or fun or interesting. Like this article that notes - and questions - the new "trends" appearing in the world of graphic design [naming: balloons, spilt liquids and paper constructions].
I was talking to a friend the other day ...
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Saturday, August 9th, 2008
The (whole) work of Gabriel Bá and Fábio Moon, two Brazilian "story tellers" who have just won the Eisner Awards, the Oscar of comics. I just posted their most recent image here, but their blog is worth not one, but constant visiting. If you understand portuguese, try this link.
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Friday, August 8th, 2008
I really would like to have one of those speak-ers by Sherwood Forlee. Does anyone know where (or how) to buy it?
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
The beautiful of today is this pixel art 3.2 x 2.1 meter of Astro Boy using 138,000 recycled metro tickets made at the Shinjuku Takashimaya Department Store in Tokyo. It was made by 2 volunteers and betting is open: how long do you think that took?
Via core77.
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