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Writings and podcasts on design and culture. Founded by @jessicahelfand and @michaelbierut .
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We're back with Season 11 of The Design Of Business | The Business of Design! Don't miss iconic artist
@WEEMSCarrie
as we dive into her role in public life and learn how to throw a party to change the world. ▶️ Listen now on Spotify, Apple or
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Social media has spawned a generation who appear to believe that punctuation is optional, that grammar is for the elderly, and that ending a sentence with a period is an act of aggression. The guardian of grammar, Benjamin Dreyer, wants that to change.
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2024 is shaping up to be quite the challenge, but guess what? We're ready to tackle it head-on. Equity Observer is your ticket to stay informed, inspired, and engaged. Subscribe now and join a community making a difference. Read the first issue ⬇️
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Using objects as journalism in the new season at Mmuseumm
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Nearly 4,000 pages of Paul Klee's notebooks, now online
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Paul Klee’s notebooks—nearly 4,000 pages of them—are now online.
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A dream job described: art director for special projects at The New York Times Magazine Group
@puddygreen
talks to
@thedailyheller
about creating The New York Times for Kids
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800 pages of every hand-mixed color imaginable, 271 years before Pantone:
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Scientists in Germany have developed an actual, intradermal tattoo that can change colour in response to changing levels of glucose, albumin, or pH. h/t
@kottke
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Design Matters w
@debbiemillman
+ Shirley Manson
@garbage
on career, music, and the value of speaking up
#Listen
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"The print-is-dead conversation is tedious ... magazine sales have dwindled but I don’t think that’s because the audience has disappeared, I think it’s because authentic publications have.”
@thedailyheller
talks to
@MrMattWilley
about INQUE.
#ReadMore
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After reviewing 700+ books from cover to cover, we're excited to share the best designs of 2018. Announcing the 2018 50 Books + 50 Covers selections with
@AIGADesign
#Congratulations
🎉 📚🎊
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Let's all show Canada some love : a documentary on Canadian Design needs your help!
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Massimo Vignelli's unused maps for the D.C. Metro are amazing
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📣 Introducing The Design Observer 20: The Redesigners.
The Design Observer 20 is our inaugural list of 20 remarkable people, projects, and ideas addressing an urgent social need. We call them the redesigners. Check them out here 👇
#DOTwenty
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It’s getting real! Coming this fall, Culture is Not Always Popular, our 15 year retrospective. Pre-order:
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The story of Ford’s first African-American designer, McKinley Thompson, who sketched the original 1966 Bronco.
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One of our favs: Design Matters w/
@debbiemillman
+
@amandapalmer
on music, ambitions, and asking for help
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Color correction and its relationship to racial bias. (Via Dori Tunstall.)
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If birds left tracks in the sky, what would they look like?
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A building that uses emoji cast in concrete as modern gargoyles
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The Americanization of 1920s New Typography; or the soft sell of the avant garde from
@thedailyheller
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Between cover and content: the overlooked beauty of endpapers
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In honor of his 86th birthday, a quick overview of Massimo Vignelli‘s enduring NYC subway legacy
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Jason Forrest is amassing a curated archive of vintage data visualization books and artifacts, which he plans to make digitally available to the public.
@thedailyheller
dives in.
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Beetles, butterflies, dragonflies + more, all rendered in flowers and leaves:
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“A stunning mixture of Midcentury Modern typography and abstract graphic art.”
@thedailyheller
takes a deep dive into Command Records album art.
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The Japanese fashion designer Kenzo has died of complications from COVID-19, in Paris, his adopted home for more than half a century. He was 81.
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Everything you ever wanted to know about a rejected Paul Rand logo for Ford Motor Company—from 1966—but were afraid to ask. (With apologies for the term “fancy-schmancy design trends” which would make Mr. Rand spin in his grave.)
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In an effort to provide more fonts accessible to everyone, the Indian Type Foundry introduces Fontshare.
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An algorithm has generated seven million different label designs for Nutella.
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100s of pages from Lance Wyman’s ‘designlogs’ have been photographed, edited + made into a beautiful book. More:
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The original 176 emojis, developed by Shigetaka Kurita for cell phones in 1999, now acquired by
@MuseumModernArt
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Brilliant, methodical explanation of pixels, dots and why they matter. Should be required reading for all designers.
http://t.co/BiWa5eLou1
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Pilot and photographer Christiaan van Heijst captures his stunning view of weather from the cockpit.
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A new study at
@ibmdesign
confirms
@errolmorris
's findings from 2012: Baskerville is the most trustworthy typeface
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Yohokama-based Masayoshi Matsumoto is a balloon genius.
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The 10 best podcasts for designers: Design Matters with
@debbiemillman
ranked no. 1.
http://t.co/dw3praPd
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What colors define historical periods? This app creates color palettes from 2000 BC to the 1960s (h/t
@bdeskin
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2/3:
#50Covers
winner Wolf in White Van designed by
@timothyogoodman
from
@FSGbooks
http://t.co/31Wj0tacX0
http://t.co/vtxBMH4xYy
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The beauty of Slovakian Socialist Era sterile, geometric, old swimming pools.
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20 historical graphic designers that you should be ashamed not to know.
@8point5b
http://t.co/f9KrNRFrxi
http://t.co/XAmbHxjjiM
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Kern in hell! Announcing: Hell Vetica (via Victoria Brown)
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A gallery of images of the grand signs of mid-century America by
@toomuchfire
:
http://t.co/a23uLHAVNx
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http://t.co/meklCuWWXi
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Congrats to the amazing 50 Books () and 50 Covers () winners!
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Modern boy and modern girl! A trip down memory lane with vintage Japanese graphic design. (h/t Joe Freedman)
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Photographer Michael Wolf and the dazzling and depressing architecture of density in megacities
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All 14 issues of legendary Herb Lubalin 60s magazine Avant Garde are now online!
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“Real life” Lego House to open in Denmark this month. Hopefully it's too big to step on.
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Photography + craft = spectacular imagery. Gallery here:
http://t.co/dYhgzrPWRa
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http://t.co/TcdAWvybnt
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"Regardless of why we find something humorous, it is an extraordinary tool for the designer.” Read an excerpt from
@SeanAAdams
new book How Design Makes Us Think. And join us Tuesday for a discussion about the book. Tickets here:
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In Amsterdam, serres séparées (which mean 'separate greenhouses' in French) are introduced for socially distanced outdoor dining.
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Inspiring design icon / thing: Massimo Vignelli's 1968 NYC Subway Map
#TL_Chat
http://t.co/v7NUPI0Ytu
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50 Books | 50 Covers entries are continuing to impress up. A quick peek at a few of the recent ones. See them all here:
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Design Matters w
@debbiemillman
+ illustrator
@abstractsunday
on his singular career as an artistic superhero.
#Listen
!
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150 years ago women were first admitted to Yale University's School of Art. This important anniversary was marked by an exhibition at the Yale University Art Gallery, and included work across all media, except for one: graphic design.
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Olympic Games pictograms were introduced at the Tokyo '64 Games. The
#Tokyo2020
pictograms were designed by Masaaki Hiromura who “tried to express the dynamic beauty of the athletes...while respecting the legacy”
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Recognize this guy? Did you know he started his career as a graphic designer?
http://t.co/iDmHoK6kP6
http://t.co/4eITiyEbIy
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Big hit yesterday: Keep Calm and Carry On: Story Behind the Poster. Video.
http://bit.ly/mBBB6D
Note: password "keepcalm" is needed.
#poster
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Out today from
@LaurenceKingPub
📚 Sign Painting. In the last ten years or so we have truly witnessed a resurgence of the sign painter’s craft. More:
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When TV logos were objects...plus behind-the-scenes of HBO's model city
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Graphic Design is a Literary Discipline: Writers, editors, and designers speak the same language
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About two years ago Brooklyn-based polymath Robby Kraft started using algorithmic code to design new origami patterns and they are
#astounding
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The brilliant
@mcmansionhell
website, shut down by a restraining order, is back on its feet thanks to the
@EFF
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"Akogare could be understood to a Western audience as a deep feeling of respect and admiration one may feel for someone they greatly look up to." On a new bi-lingual collaboration from Logoarchive
@Neue_Miller
@RichBaird
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10 notebooks for designers. (And they‘re not all Moleskines.)
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"Anti-homeless” spikes removed in Manchester after locals keep covering them with cushions
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A growing crowd-sourced gallery of crazy mass transit fabric patterns. Anything to add?
I'm looking for examples of any unique, characterful fabrics used on public transport for
@CityLab
. Any ideas?
London is an obvious one.
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Gerald Haltom‘s original 1958 sketches for the peace symbol
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Congrats to
@michaelbierut
+
@jessicahelfand
! The Design of Business | The Business of Design was named one of the 15 best graphic design podcasts:
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