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Not 100% about the choices of all the imagery used here, but this set by Minga is certainly eye catching. 

Photos by Jennifer Zwick.

Some lovely bits on the flickr of Pope Saint Victor…

Noma Bar interview on Grain Edit. Well worth a read!

joncherry - howies summer shoot films arrived today from Palm Labs. Here are five I like. Some more to follow soon. Lovely stuff Chez, can’t wait to see yours (and Jons) 

Fellow West-Middler Luke Skinner is also in his 25th year on the planet, and to celebrate created this nice background - free download.

Cover Artwork / Trencher & Orthrelm – Split 5″ - Artwork by BlackYard 4

Us & Them Studios have made an awesome new art print on wood.  “Treehugger” is an 11″ x 14″ screenprint, has an edition of 10, and is $100.  Pick one up in the Gigposters.com Classifieds.

DeathStar Watermelons and Cantaloupes at Kuriositas.

Heads of State

The Future of Money

Giles Balne, Printer, 1777, was in a great position. He printed lottery tickets, then won the jackpot, then bought the Vauxhall Gardens, then spent the rest of his days printing amazing posters for them. This poster is 780 x 532mm and is one of seven kept at the Bodleian Library in the John Johnson collection in Oxford.

Nice phat type!

Anthony Gormley’s life sized figures are back, and this time the pathways and sidewalks of Madison Square Park as well as the rooftops of New York’s vibrant Flatiron District are the location. Originally created for London’s Hayward Gallery as part of the Blind Light exhibition in 2007, Event Horizon will see twenty-seven fibreglass and four cast iron figures populate Manhattan from 26 March to 15 August this year. 

www.eventhorizonnewyork.org

The RGB Light lamp designed by Fabian Nehne and Martin Meier

GF Smith are selling limited edition prints of photography they’ve used for their promotional material. Yes please to John Ross’s inky blobs and Lee Furnell’s Flowers. 

Aarhus University (AU), established in 1928, is Denmark’s second largest educational institution and ranked in the top 100 universities worldwide. Interesting reading here…

Aerial wonder! These birds-eye illustrations from Philippe Nicolas are pretty ace. 

Ronald Clyne (1925 – 2006) designed over 500 album covers for Folkways and is largely responsible for the famous label’s striking visual appearance. His distinctive use of two-color printing on matte paper and his deft use of modernist design strategies, created a body of work that gave the Folkways label its distinctive aroma of integrity and purity.

David Bazan tour poster set by Bandito Design Co.
Hand silk-screened on French Paper!

During the Apollo lunar missions from 1968 to 1972, those onboard were given 16mm cameras and told to film anything and everything they could, in space, in orbit, and on the surface of the moon itself. Two decades later, filmmaker Al Reinert went into the NASAvaults to create this incredible film set to a soundtrack by Brian Eno.

What I love about this clip is that the two astronauts have gone through years of grueling training and selection processes to get to the moon and then when they finally get onto it’s surface, they start pratting about!

ninakix- I guess Karl Lagerfeld decided it would be cool to model the Chanel winter collection in front of an iceberg, and the best way to do that would be to import an actual iceberg. 
It took 35 ice sculptors, flown in from around the world, six days to carve the 28-foot-tall northern Swedish import into a tableau of floating ice caps on a glittering Arctic sea—in reality, a 5,300-square-meter box garnished with a thin layer of water. (via Ecouterre)

The Selby

Robert Dabi’s Zero concept

Photos and scans of a nearly complete set of Saul Bass designed matchbook covers from the 1960s.

The folks over at L’Ogre have created a great video for the band Hold Your Horses! and their song 70 Million.

Lincoln School of Art & Design student James Froggatt. nice type.

chrispiascik.com/work/major-taylor-zine/

Gee, thanks guys, I didn’t even know you knew?!

Happiness is…400 ampersands! downloaded.

Had a visit this morning from the brilliant Progress Packaging guys – Simon and Liam – they are experts in bespoke packaging and well worth speaking to when spec’ing a job. Their blog is one to bookmark, a nice insight into the company. Awesome tote bags too – thanks guys!

Beautiful campaign for Surfrider Foundation - “In the sea, there’s no such thing as a little bit of rubbish.

Font Aid IV is a designers’ initiative to benefit the victims of the earthquake in Haiti. The font consists entirely of ampersands, representing the idea of people coming together to help one another. Nearly 400 type designers, graphic designers and other artists from around the world contributed; the list of names is here. All proceeds from sales will go to Doctors Without Borders to help with their relief efforts in Haiti.

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Stencils by the Urban Repair Squad in Toronto warn bicyclists of cracks and bumps with “OOF!” “THUNK!” “OUCH!” and “YIPE!”. Torontoist

If I could i’d tag Chez / Nath / Claire etc. in this…

I really love the way Ron Mueck’s work plays with scale, character and space. Amazing behind the scenes photos here - www.gautierdeblonde.com

Uriá Fassina has an interesting flickr

www.joeyl.com

La Boca is a London based design firm specializing in transporting its viewers to places of the future by means of the past.

Cassander Eeftinck Schattenkerk

Bionic numbers from Friends of Type

Extra tough typography from German designer Christof Gassner for a Letraset type sample catalogue, circa 1980.

MTV re-branded their six specialist music channels’. This, of course, means great new leaders by some of the best motion- and audio studios. For MTV Rocks (formerly MTV2) Dutch studio Post Panic worked five months on creating five surreal idents that rock indeed. Directed by Mischa Rozema, audio by Massive Music, Amsterdam.

Great collection of classic car emblems on Flickr

Some beautiful letterpress test sheets by way of Duckpin Press.

The Incredible San Fancisco Artists’ Soapbox Derby, 1975. from Mike Haeg on Vimeo. This is long but very charming. Total steal from SM.

With high-powered video projectors and patented video mapping technology, Klip Collective transform the Art Deco façade of the Edison Hotel in Miami Beach into an eye-catching 3D illusion for the Super Bowl in February 2010.

The Maagster has an exhibition in Vienna. Going from the photos, it looks pretty amazing. See more and read all about it on the FontFeed.

Shell posters / Frank Eidlitz / 1964

Typography in Advertising collection…