Vitesse: A New Font Family from H&FJ
Impeccable work, as ever – a distinctive new slab from H&FJ: Vitesse
Earth, the penultimate frontier…
OK, OK, last space-themed post for a while, I promise, but I couldn’t resist posting the photographs of Vincent Fournier, they’re astounding. (via Creative Review)
The Vandelles
A new release from Si at Spoilt Victorian Child Records, described as ‘very very loud fuzz-drenched guitars’? Oh, go on then.
Under The Milky Way
Purely coincidentally, I came across some more beautiful space-themed posters via The Ministry of Type.
A practical boarding pass redesign
timoni.org — A practical boarding pass redesign — Timoni Grone details the redesign of a boarding pass, factoring in the needs of the passenger and the airport staff. This is what good design entails – function, not just making things ‘look pretty’.
The business card of Paul Rand
Posted on several design blogs already, but worth mentioning nonetheless. I love it because it conveys precisely the information it needs to and nothing more. Because it’s Paul Rand. (via Monoscope)
Sipapu, Looking Up
via PDN Photo of the Day.
International Year of Astronomy posters
Lovely retro posters by Simon Page (via BB-Blog).
A_Stool by Jonathan Nesci
Gorgeous work from Hale Industrial Design (via swissmiss).
Earthquake in Haiti
Earthquake in Haiti — The Big Picture
Donate Now to the DEC (an umbrella organisation for 13 British humanitarian aid agencies).
Linked List
Rendering Fear: The Graphic Design of Al Qaeda
Chicken vs. Penguin – cute 2 minute short film by Marko Slavnic which won 1st prize ($100,000) in the Nikon USA ‘Nikon Festival’ competition.
Wildlife photographer of the year stripped of his award | The Guardian. I remember being blown away when I first saw this image – it’s an astounding capture – and thought it rightfully deserved to win the Natural History Museum’s 2009 prize. Unfortunately, though, it appears that the photographer, rather than camping out for months in the wild, instead cheated and hired a tame wolf. Oh!
Death Row – an infographic detailing where the death penalty is still in use around the world, and where it has been abolished. (hat tip Reprieve)
Book Review – Chroma: Design, Architecture and Art in Color — we make money not art.
ASME – 2009 Best Cover Winners and Finalists.
How to Say: Van Gogh by the BBC Pronunciation Unit.
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Citing usage from 1949, the OED calls this mark the dog’s bollocks, which it defines as, “typogr. a colon followed by a dash, regarded as forming a shape resembling the male sexual organs.” This is why I love scrounging around the linguistic scrap heap that is the OED. I always come across a little gold. And by “gold,” I mean, “vulgar, 60-year-old emoticons.”
The Secret History of Typography in the Oxford English Dictionary — The Bygone Bureau
