Author: David Airey
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Rainbows through the Smithsonian with 60 miles of thread
This stunning art installation is part of the ongoing Plexus series by Gabriel Dawe. Plexus literally means a network of nerves or blood vessels in the body. The Mexican artist used almost 60 miles of thread in more than 15 hues to create the intricate prisms of colour. “The thread is so thin, that when…
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Logo Design Love in Spanish
A huge thanks to Madrid-based publisher Grupo Anaya for buying the translation rights for Logo Design Love.
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Footage of Renoir and Monet painting
I’d no idea the two impressionists were filmed. Interesting glimpses of past masters at work.
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Five things
Belfast-based designer Paul McNally asked me to submit to his Five Things project — a collection of favourite things from people of all ages, locations, and occupations.
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New business cards by Dayfold
In Michael’s words, “Less is more. Just your name or email will do, like an old-fashioned calling card you’d present to the butler.”
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The Process: A New Foundation in Art and Design
A collection of 13 experimental projects designed to teach conceptual thinking and problem solving to art and design students. “The projects, created by Judith and Richard Wilde, focus on developing formal excellence and a strong sense of aesthetics, along with the ability to generate new ideas. Each project is illustrated with multiple visual solutions, provided…
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Fontself turns your type drawings into a font
Turn your type drawings into a font using Fontself — software extensions for Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.
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Trade Marks & Symbols, 1973
“A comprehensive, profusely illustrated guide to more than 1,500 trademarks from all over the world.” Written and compiled by Yasaburo Kuwayama, every page of the 1973 volume one — Alphabetical Designs — can be seen on trademarksandsymbols.com A couple of excerpts… History of marks: Origins in the West “The use of identifying marks in the…
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Adrian Frutiger, 1928-2015
Swiss type designer Adrian Frutiger died on September 12th, 2015, after a lifetime of creating some of the most useful and highly regarded typefaces in the world. Photo by Henk Gianotten. With a client list featuring the likes of IBM, Air France, and the Swiss Post Office, Frutiger’s typefaces include Univers, Avenir, and the self-named…
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It is always now
Part of us always knows that we’re just a doctor’s visit or a phone call away from being starkly reminded with the fact of our own mortality.