Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-04-04

Watch TIKIMENTARY - IN SEARCH OF THE LOST PARADISE on Vimeo! http://vimeo.com/10198434 # the best movies of the United States Government, from training films to history FedFlix : Internet Archive http://goo.gl/zQfK # Take history exams from the 19th Century! University of...

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-28

More design deconstruction from the New York Times! Poster Art for Revival of ‘La Cage Aux Folles’ - NYTimes.com http://goo.gl/IDfX # An amazing photo of long lost Dreamland park on Coney Island... Dreamland Twilight: 1905 | Shorpy Historic Photo Archive...

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The Seven Deadly Sins… now with Stormtroopers!

The Seven Deadly Sins. The Cardinal Vices. Just listing them is very evocative, they drip with poetry and dread and have since they were slowly codified during the early history of the Catholic Church: pride avarice envy wrath lust gluttony sloth The nature of these sins are...

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Survivors get ready to RUMBLE!

Design Something Everyday 16/365 After reading the amazing tutorial "How to Creat a Retro Boxing Poster in Photoshop" from James Davies I was inspired to give it a whirl. I didn't get quite as faux-vintage as James did, but went...

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Seperated at Birth?

While pursuing the world's number #1 package design website™, the Dieline, I was impressed by the new design and product photo shoot for The Impossible Project; a new film for Polaroid instant cameras. I enjoyed the designs startling white...

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-21

Cool Chinese Cultural Revolution Posters http://goo.gl/qJ0G # Cool Metropolis Mashup! YouTube - Que Sera - Wax Tailor http://goo.gl/dIKZ # RT @jthompsondesign: Saturday Showcase: I Love Typography #3 http://bit.ly/dkH5PR # Let's go push some pixels around today! # Showcase Of Web Design In China:...

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Design Something Everyday 15/365

I found a great article in Esquire wherein book jacket designer extraordinaire Chip Kidd discusses the thinking and methods that underlie some of his recent work. One typography trick  that is particularly useful is how he created the distressed...

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-14

I am so happy Logorama won for best short animation. It deserves it. # A nice Vector. RT @vectorvn: Creative Bulletin Board : http://bit.ly/aT4DwY # Congrats Logorama! marketing http://goo.gl/ezg6 # Tiki & Peter Sellers? Nothing wrong with that! The Party, Peter...

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To seek, to find, to design and not to yield.

Design Something Everyday 14/365 This was a design based on one of my favorite poems, Ulysses, by Alfred Lord Tennyson. The poem is very moving, and has the great hero Ulysses (Odysseus in Greek) at the end of his life...

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Design Something Everyday 13/365

I was at the park with my kids playing in the sand box and I recalled this quote from Chip Kidd's wonderful novel The Cheese Monkeys: A Novel in Two Semesters: "Design is purposeful planning... Graphic design is the...

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Twitter Updates for 2010-03-06

As I rush to finish a ton of projects I realize that the great philosophers INXS had it right when they said "Not enough time." # A good introduction to Albin's Countergambit http://goo.gl/zRmZ # If you love models, as I do...

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Twitter Updates for 2010-03-05

Is listening to Tiki music idolatry? # Good to know. Blueprint For A Successful Design Blog | Design | PelFusion.com http://goo.gl/cVVM # Tweeting about twitter, doesn't that create a paradox in spacetime? Freelancers ayou should use twitter | Creative Nerds http://goo.gl/fSgi...

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