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McCain’s Typeface
April 22nd, 2008Great article by Steven Heller of the NY Times on the typeface used in John McCain’s presidential campaign. The McCain logo is set in Optima Bold and Heller asked a few designers, which include Michael Bierut, Ellen Lupton and Matthew Carter, two questions: What does Optima say about John McCain? And should this, or any, candidate be judged by a typeface?
I’m not a fan of Optima or McCain for that matter, but it’s definitely an interesting read.
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More Rare Swiss Design Books
April 22nd, 2008These next two additions to my collection have to be the most rare and the most expensive but also the most satisfying. Publicity and Graphic Design in the Chemical Industry (1967) and Graphic Design in Swiss Industry (1965) are both by Hans Neuberg and are part of the excellent ABC Verlag collection and contain page after page of some of the finest design work you’ll ever see. From packaging to letterheads these books will keep you hypnotized for hours… if you can find them.
You can see more photos from both books on my Flickr page.
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Swiss Sports Posters
April 21st, 2008I added a new book to my collection this weekend titled Swiss Sports Posters that features… well… Swiss sports posters. The book is a collection of the best sports posters covering more than a century. Printed in 1983 and authored by Karl Wobmann and Max Triet, Swiss Sports Posters contains brilliant work that will get any designers juices flowing.
Check out the full gallery on my Flickr page.
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Design Goodies
April 19th, 2008I just posted on my Flickr page some sweet design goodies that a few generous designers sent to me.
First we have a two-sided poster designed by Josh Gomby for the Rochester Institute of Technology screening of the Helvetica documentary. Josh was kind enough to send me two copies of this.
Then there’s an invite for the Helvetica 50 exhibition designed and sent to me by Xavier Encinas of peter&wendy.
Lastly, Robin Uleman surprised me with two beautiful booklets he designed for Premsela.
You can check out more photos of each piece on my Flickr page.
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Rejected Book Covers
April 18th, 2008Check out these gorgeous book covers designed by Klas Ernflo that were rejected by a publisher. What were they thinking? These cover designs are stunning and I would buy the book just for it! There are other covers on the site that are great as well.
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Love Will Tear Us Apart Again — Second Edition
April 18th, 2008Peter of Plus Minus let me know that he has re-printed his wonderful Love Will Tear Us Apart Again poster. The 2nd Edition is limited to 30 prints and is printed on GFSmith Peregrina classics ruby red velvet metallic paper in metallic silver ink. Produced by K2 Screen, you can purchase this limited edition print at Design Supremo for £85.00.
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New Alphabet FontStructed
April 17th, 2008Matt McInerney has cleverly recreated Wim Crouwel’s famous New Alphabet typeface using FontStruct.
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Brauer Neue
April 17th, 2008Brauer Neue is a beautiful typefaced designed by the talented Swiss studio Elektrosmog. Brauer was originally designed by Pierre Miedinger (a nephew of Helvetica designer, Max Miedinger) for a Zurich based brewery called Brauerei Hürlimann. Below are two posters designed by Josef Müller-Brockmann in 1978 that feature the original typeface designed by Miedinger. Elektrosmog took this lost typeface and extended it into a full character set which includes Regular, Bold and Black weights.
You can purchase Brauer Neue from Lineto.
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Co-Op
April 15th, 2008Fantastic portfolio by Melbourne based studio Co-Op. Not a single bad piece in it.
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Update: Lifter Baron
April 15th, 2008Rob wrote it to let me know that he’s updated his site Lifter Baron with some new work and a shiny new design.
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Weezer — Pork & Beans
April 14th, 2008For all you geek rock lovers out there Weezer is a releasing a new album June 17th with the first single, Pork & Beans, hitting our ear drums on April 22nd. Amazon has a short clip of the song and it sounds fuckin’ awesome! Old school Weezer is back! The cover design is even sweet.
