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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Polyphemus Gives Odysseus’s Men a Hand

Design Something Everyday: 12/365 Here's a little sketch for my design something every day project. Imagine yourself as one of clever Odysseus' men in the cave of the Cyclops, and one-eyed Polyphemus, son of Poseidon, reaches down to devour you,...

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Twitter Updates for 2010-03-04

An excellent collection of mid-century goodness! Vintage Chrome Postcards http://vintagechromes.blogspot.com/ # Take that Edward! via boingboingDown for the Count by ~poopbear on deviantART http://goo.gl/sihg # Good post. HOWTO make smarter dumb mistakes about the future - Boing Boing http://goo.gl/Rblw # your daily...

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A Map of the Underworld according Virgil’s Aeneid Rendered as a Subway Map

Design Something Everyday 11/365: In honor of my love of maps, information graphics and Virgil, I decided to imagine Aeneas journey as if it were a subway map. So enjoy. Don't forget your subway token's for Charon! I have always...

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Twitter Updates for 2010-03-03

Very interesting tutorial. How to Create a Vector Series of Linear Effects | Vectortuts+ http://goo.gl/5zQN # More Tiki Urban Archeology from Michael Fitzgerald's Blog | From the San Joaquin Media Group. http://goo.gl/EBi4 # Nice rusty textures. Free Texture Tuesday: Rust 3...

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