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The Graphic Design of Al Qaeda

Stef — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:54:12 +0000

Rendering Fear: The Graphic Design of Al Qaeda

Chicken vs. Penguin

Stef — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:54:27 +0000

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

Stef — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:56:40 +0000

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 Penalty Infographic

Stef — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:26:46 +0000

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)

Chroma: Design, Architecture and Art in Color

Stef — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 10:14:07 +0000

Book Review – Chroma: Design, Architecture and Art in Color — we make money not art.

Best American Magazine Covers 2009

Stef — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 11:20:11 +0000

ASME – 2009 Best Cover Winners and Finalists.

How to Say: Van Gogh

Stef — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:42:25 +0000

How to Say: Van Gogh by the BBC Pronunciation Unit.

The Secret History of Typography in the Oxford English Dictionary

Stef — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:11:47 +0000

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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

Werner Herzog Reads Curious George

Stef — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 08:50:26 +0000

Werner Herzog Reads Curious George (via Merlin Mann)

Josef Müller-Brockmann on Leading

Stef — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 08:23:32 +0000

Good leading can carry the eye optically from one line to the next, giving it confidence and stability, and enabling it to absorb and remember more easily what has been read. When reading is smooth and easy, the meaning content of the words is grasped more clearly; they acquire more character and expression and etch themselves more sharply on the mind.

— Josef Müller-Brockmann, Grid Systems in Graphic Design

Anouk Rehorek

Stef — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:52:22 +0000

Inspirational magazine design by Anouk Rehorek (via AisleOne)

Halsman’s Jumpology

Stef — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:39:52 +0000

Phillippe Halsman’s Jump book at the Iconic Photos blog.

I Love Typography’s favourite fonts of 2009

Stef — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:38:39 +0000

I Love Typography’s favourite fonts of 2009.

I.D.’s Executioners

Stef — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:29:58 +0000

I.D.’s Executioners –

The blogosphere was born and the global economy fell to pieces. And yet nothing in the corporate zeitgeist shifted an iota. Though the cells were constantly regenerated, the parent entity remained exactly the same. Like hundreds of American businesses, it was obsessed with short-term profitability, the future be damned. And no one who had any serious power over I.D. seemed to understand anything about design.

(via A Photo Editor)

For the love of Ampersands

Stef — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:31:14 +0000

300&65 Ampersands (via swissmiss)

Vitesse: A New Font Family from H&FJ

Stef — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:52:30 +0000

Impeccable work, as ever – a distinctive new slab from H&FJ: Vitesse

Fingal’s Cave

Stef — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:46:34 +0000

Fingal’s Cave (via PDN Photo of the Day)

Earth, the penultimate frontier…

Stef — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:33:51 +0000

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

Stef — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:27:35 +0000

A new release from Si at Spoilt Victorian Child Records, described as ‘very very loud fuzz-drenched guitars’? Oh, go on then.

The Vandelles

ScreenFonts | The FontFeed

Stef — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:00:01 +0000

Speaking of Yves at FontShop, he writes a great semi-regular column on the typography of movie posters called ScreenFonts.

French Anti-Piracy Org Hadopi uses Pirated Font in Logo

Stef — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:49:36 +0000

Thoroughly researched, definitive article on how the French anti-piracy organisation Hadopi used a pirated font in its own logo. Great journalism by Yves at The FontFeed.

Raghu Rai | The Observer

Stef — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:10:43 +0000

Interview with Raghu Rai, one of India’s foremost photographers, in The Observer today, along with a small gallery. He’s exhibiting at the Aicon Gallery in London from 22 Jan – 20 Feb.

The myth of the page fold

Stef — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 01:12:28 +0000

Useful evidence-based research from cxpartners on how the ‘page fold’ for websites is not the insurmountable problem that many expect, and how certain measures can be taken to ensure content below the fold gets seen.

Under The Milky Way

Stef — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 01:03:56 +0000

Purely coincidentally, I came across some more beautiful space-themed posters via The Ministry of Type.

A practical boarding pass redesign

Stef — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:41:42 +0000

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

Stef — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:16:52 +0000

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

Stef — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:25:30 +0000

via PDN Photo of the Day.

Disturbing revelations from China about Akmal Shaikh’s execution

Stef — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:23:51 +0000

Disturbing revelations from China about Akmal Shaikh’s execution – China’s Supreme Court ignored advice from their own panel of experts in executing Akmal Shaikh; new letter from Akmal to Reprieve reveals major flaws in trial.

The Comparative Risk of Terrorism

Stef — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:07:43 +0000

The Comparative Risk of Terrorism – essay from the Wall Street Journal:

It might be unrealistic to expect the average citizen to have a nuanced grasp of statistically based risk analysis, but there is nothing nuanced about two basic facts:

America is a country of 310 million people, in which thousands of horrible things happen every single day; and

The chances that one of those horrible things will be that you’re subjected to a terrorist attack can, for all practical purposes, be calculated as zero.

(via Bruce Schneier).

International Year of Astronomy posters

Stef — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:51:14 +0000

Lovely retro posters by Simon Page (via BB-Blog).