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BBC Design Guidelines
June 29th, 2008Here’s an excellent find. A PDF file on BBC.co.uk named Visual Language 1.0 covering the widening of the site pages. Included are a lot of grid examples which makes it a great read.
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Graphic Design Museum Gallery
June 26th, 2008Fellow AisleOne reader Coen Zwaal was kind enough to take some pictures of the new the Graphic Design Museum in the Netherlands. The gallery includes some shots of Crouwel’s work in the museum. Coen was also lucky to meet the legend on the day he visited.
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Pantone Espresso Cups
June 26th, 2008Since I’m a full blooded Italiano, I drink espresso like there was no tomorrow. I love it in the morning, I love it in the afternoon and I love it after dinner. My wedding favor was a nice espresso machine I imported from Italy with a bag of ground espresso. I love it ok!?
So imagine how excited I was when I saw this awesome set of Pantone espresso cups. Then imagine how pissed I was when I found out that they’re only available in the UK. W2 Products doesn’t ship outside the EU and I can’t seem to find anyone in the US that carried them. F-ing great!
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Markwald & Neusitzer
June 26th, 2008I absolutely love this booklet/stationary by German studio Markwald & Neusitzer. Gorgeous and inspiring. Makes me want to fire up Illustrator.
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Thinking For A Living Redux
June 25th, 2008
The insanely talented Duane King, with the help from him friends at Athletics, has relaunched Thinking For A Living with a fresh new design as well as a blog and Del.icio.us feed.
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CMYK Posters
June 24th, 2008A nice collection of posters available in Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black by Milano based studio Unconfessable Ideas.
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50 Designers’ Current Favourite Typefaces
June 23rd, 2008Excellent book by UK studio Create/Reject featuring favorite typefaces by 50 designers. The list includes Wim Crouwel, Experimental Jetset and Build. You can purchase a copy here. All proceeds go to UNICEF.
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Nike Euro 2008
June 19th, 2008Amazing set of 16 limited edition t-shirts for Nike by Steve Rura. Each shirt represents a country that qualified for the 2008 Euro Soccer Tournament. I how do I get these cause I want them all.
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Neubau Grotesk
June 17th, 2008Very nice new typeface by Neubau that will be available in 6 weights on July 1st.
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Branding A Baptism
June 16th, 2008I designed this invitation, RSVP card and table card for my sons baptism. The overall color theme of the party is black & white so I wanted to keep this consistent throughout. I also wanted to use a single typeface for everything, in this case I went with Lubalin Graph. It’s used on ever piece: invitation, RSVP card, envelope, RSVP envelope and even extends to the number cards that will be on each table, which will be mounted in simple black frames.
The invite and RSVP card were letterpress by Coeur Noir in Brooklyn, NY, who did an amazing job. These are the same guys that printed up some stuff for the Helvetica Film, including this gorgeous poster by Norm. For the stock I went with white Rising Museum Board. I wanted a really heavy stock and this ended up being perfect. The board even has a nice texture to it.
For the envelopes I went to Kate’s Paperie and found some gorgeous high quality envelopes that are lined and have a nice diagonal line texture. They also printed my address on the back of the main envelope and on the front of the RSVP envelope. They didn’t have the Lubalin Graph font in house so I had to lay it out myself and send over the files. They came out perfect.
The entire set looks amazing and I’m really happy with how it all came out. If anyone would like a set let me know and I’ll send it out if I have any left over.
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Vormgevers Poster Details
June 13th, 2008Blanka has posted detailed photos of the Wim Crouwel Vormgevers poster being printed.
I’m dying to buy one but with the dollar being so low, the poster would cost me $200. Might be worth it though.
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Graphic Design Museum
June 11th, 2008Today marks the opening of the Graphic Design Museum, the worlds first museum entirely focused on graphic design.
Damn it! I wish I lived in the Netherlands.