From the monthly archives:

January 2010

The Perfect Cup

January 25, 2010

Coffee grown, harvested, roasted and ultimately brewed by people who fundamentally appreciate and understand the joys of this beverage, is a rare gift. In an effort to document their search for the world’s ultimate tastemakers, LA design studio Department of the Fourth Dimension (or DPT. DDDD) have crafted some truly beautiful videos from Venice’s Intelligentsia [...]

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A Novel Way To Cover Your Kit

January 21, 2010

It’s about time that something good came of America’s growing aversion to books. No proper vandal would be caught dead fleeing the broken window of your car with this lovely, hardback leather case from twelve south. These beautifully crafted and individually distressed laptop cases are built to protect, while cloaking your MacBook in a vintage [...]

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Can Apple Pull The Rabbit From The Hat?

January 20, 2010

When Steve Jobs takes the stage next Wednesday at Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco, he will be attempting to pull off the kind of dramatic debut that seems almost impossible in this age of unreal expectation and insatiable hype. Outside of the rumored announcement of the iPhone 4G, it’s the iSlate, (or Apple Tablet, [...]

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John Boardley Comes Clean

January 20, 2010

I must implore you to click the image above and head over to iLT for what’s becoming a legitimate treat, a proper typophile’s list of favorite typefaces from the previous year. Within just a couple of hours, this post has generated comments from some of type’s biggest names and includes selections that are likely on [...]

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An Ampersand A Day…

January 19, 2010

At it’s inception, the ampersand was a ligature of the letters e and t, an efficiency for the latin et, meaning “and” . That perception has since changed, and the & now stands as it’s own unique and beautiful character. Enough of that, just add this new Tumblr project to the list of sites you have [...]

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Logorama

January 19, 2010

Film buffs from around the world are descending upon Park City, Utah to celebrate the smaller side of the film industry at this year’s Sundance Festival. For François Alaux, Hervé de Crécy and Ludovic Houplain of French directing collective H5, it’s another chance to show off their very first short film, Logorama. Four years in [...]

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Forensic Artist Uses Photoshop To Create… Controversy

January 17, 2010

You already  know the man on the left, and perhaps you’ve seen the recently released “wanted poster” of what Bin Laden may look like today (center). It’s the man on the right that many of us may not recognize. May I introduce Spanish lawmaker Gaspar Llamazares. Former leader of the United Left coalition in parliament, [...]

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The ABC’s of Branding

January 16, 2010

Orlando designer Jason Dean has recently made the beautiful ABC’s of Branding poster available on his new storefront for The Best Part.com. Created without ink, these eye-catching, 18″ x 24″ pieces are foil stamped, then embossed on 100 lb. French Pop-Tone, individually stamped, signed and numbered. Featuring many of the world’s most famous (and infamous) logos and [...]

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Kerning and the Mystical Concept of Flow

January 16, 2010

It’s been a few years now, but when I first took on a job at CustomInk.com as a Production Artist, I was affectionately refereed to as “the Kernal” due to my hyper critical attention to kerning pairs when proofing customer orders about to print. I’m only slightly ashamed to admit that my perceptions of “wrong” [...]

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Looking Back Before We Move Forward

January 16, 2010

As we draw ever closer to Apple’s iSlate announcement later this month, WebDesignLedger.com has been nice enough to assemble a great collection of vintage Apple advertisements on their site, including the above image of (my family’s very first home computer) the Apple IIc. For me, these photos bring with them a rash of sepia-toned memories [...]

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