Observing the evolution of logos is interesting. It gives you some historical perspective and an overview of branding trends in the twentieth century. The book Logo Life takes a hundred [...]
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This washable keyboard is really a great idea, making the cleaning of your keyboard much easier. No more stuck keys because of some dirt, and no more dirty looking keyboard.
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A couple of days ago, continuing its rebranding effort with the Metro design style, Microsoft announced a new logo to be used in its Microsoft store in Boston. The new [...]
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Published by United Editions, this app takes the recent book on Wim Crouwel and enhances it by adding some interactivity and more work. You can buy it from the iTunes [...]
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If you are proud of a typographic project you did between september 2011 and now, you can now submit it to the Computer Arts typography competition. The selected entries will [...]
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You may be interested in the short article I published on Typography Daily about the release of Source Sans Pro, Adobe’s first open source font family.
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The summer and winter olympics logos of the past 20 years, the London logo does pop out from the list. It even pops out so hard it will hit you [...]
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Phaidon is one of the most respected publishers in the field of graphic design, so you can be pretty sure that this huge archive of graphic design will be a [...]
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Season 5 of Mad Men ended recently, giving the TV show’s fan nearly one year before the new season starts. If you cannot wait, maybe one of these books will [...]
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I recently received some information about a new project: OpenStoryboards. Still under developement, OpenStoryboards will be an online collaboration tool for designers, storyboard editors and clients. Think of it as [...]
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There are a lot of pictures on the Internet that make a statement against McDonalds and other fast food chains ads. It show side-by-side the pictures from the ad and [...]
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Founded in London in 1972, Pentagram is celebrating its fortieth anniversary by having its 19 partners designing one poster for each year. Some very cool stuff there.
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The Hinglish project is an effort to make Devanagri script (used to write in Hindi) a bit more accessible to english speakers. It introduces you to a few characters and [...]
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Some argue that radars and strict controls of drivers behavior are responsible in the decline of road accidents (at least proportionally). While that statement is certainly true, in my opinion [...]
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The famous stock image company has decided to redefine the way it watermarks its pictures. With this new kind of elegant watermark, Getty Images credits the author of the photo, [...]
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The New Yorker is famous for its gorgeous illustrated covers, but the published covers are only the tip of the iceberg. Many, many cover proposals stay unpublished for various reasons. [...]
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As the publisher of this blog, I’m truly happy that you are reading it, whether it’s regularly or from times to times. You may have noticed that longer posts have [...]
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Armin of Brand New called a technical foul on the new Brooklyn Nets logo, I’d suggest a time-out instead. Of course, this new logo can not be considered as a [...]
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