May 2012
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For Tech Start-Ups, New York Has Increasing Allure
nytimes.com : FAREWELL, SILICON VALLEY Tech start-ups are gaining a media edge by moving to New York. | By JOSHUA BRUSTEIN
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James Victore's Q&A Tuesday on EGO
OBlog : James Victore’s Q&A Tuesday
VIDEO
April 2012
1 post
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Instagram acquired by Facebook
Instagram has agreed to be acquired by Facebook
Instagram blog post
March 2012
5 posts
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Meltdown in the Cloud
The Hidden Risk of a Meltdown in the Cloud - Technology Review
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The Not-So-Hidden Risk of a Cloud Meltdown, and Why I’m Not So Worried | Cloudline
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NEXT Berlin
The leading European conference for the digital industry. May 8 & 9, 2012, STATION-Berlin
nextberlin.eu
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Elizabeth Gilbert on nurturing creativity
Elizabeth Gilbert on nurturing creativity
VIDEO
»Elizabeth Gilbert muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses - and shares the radical idea that, instead of the rare person being a genius, all of us have a genius.«
via ted.com
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Keynotopia UI templates
Keynotopia UI templates help you design and prototype apps in minutes instead of hours.
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Grid Calculator Pro Edition
LINK
via typegirl:
Grid Calculator Pro Edition - Plug-in for Adobe InDesign
February 2012
7 posts
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brand eins 02/2012
brand eins 02/2012 - SCHWERPUNKT: Markenkommunikation
Habt Geduld!
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huge collective surgery carried out on the social...
»The new media and technologies by which we amplify and extend ourselves constitute huge collective surgery carried out on the social body with complete disregard for antiseptics.«
— Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media. The Extensions of Man.
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Minimalistisches Design | Zwanghafte Coolness
Minimalistisches Design | Zwanghafte Coolness | Ein Plädoyer für etwas Unordnung von Oliver Herwig | sueddeutsche.de
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Douglas Rushkoff: Branding Doesn't Work! So Now...
Douglas Rushkoff: Branding Doesn’t Work! So Now What? from Portland Oregon on Vimeo.
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Handschrift
Handschrift by José Ernesto Rodriguez
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Studentin verklagt US-Konzern wegen Ausbeutung
sueddeutsche.de : Unbezahltes Praktikum · Studentin verklagt US-Konzern wegen Ausbeutung
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Maler Antoni Tàpies gestorben
Maler Antoni Tàpies gestorben - Feuilleton - FAZ
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January 2012
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Kodak vor dem Abgrund
Filmriss in der Fotobranche - FAZ 05.01.2012 - Mit Kodak steht ein einst großes Unternehmen der Fotobranche im Abseits, Amerika verliert eine seiner bedeutenden Marken. Firmen aus Japan waren einfach schneller. Von Stephan Finsterbusch
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via faz.net
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Konsum ist das neue Cholesterin
Trendforschung - Konsum ist das neue Cholesterin - [Herald Tribune Luxury Conference in Sao Paulo] - Der Trendforscher Rony Rodrigues weiß, wie die Jungen ticken: Die Konsumenten von morgen kaufen nur noch, was ihnen eine bessere Zukunft verspricht. Autorin: Jina Khayyer
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via zeit.de
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Mike Monteiro | F*ck You. Pay Me.
This is the reality in the design business!
Mike Monteiro is Design Director, and co-founder of Mule Design Studio - muledesign.com.
via San Francisco/Creative Mornings
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Font generator · processing
Font generator / processing : prototyp-0 by yannick mathey
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Berlin Currywurst
AEG Perfunkt — Berlin Currywurst by The D4D
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The Full Spectrum - Josef Albers and Color Theory
The Full Spectrum - an unabashed exploration of color theory in the modern world. By Dwell
Directed Produced Edited: Gary Nadeau Director of Photography: Jason Koontz Music: Wonderful Sound: Jason Hemmerlin Host: Aaron Britt Series Producer for Dwell: Amanda Dameron
December 2011
30 posts
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earlybird dot com - Magazine
Download EARLYBIRD Magazine No.7 - Commodizing the Cloud
LINK
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Milton Glaser Draws & Lectures
Filmed at Milton’s studio in 2006 | By SEECOY
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typolexikon.de - Corporate Design
Corporate Design - Ursprung, Geschichte und Definition
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via typolexikon.de
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Eames: The Architect and the Painter
Eames: The Architect and the Painter Directed by: Jason Cohn, Bill Jersey Genre: Documentary
via WHITE SKY
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Notable Design Books of 2011
Justin Davidson and Wendy Goodman of New York Magazine Present Their Notable Design Books of 2011 (unabridged 16:22) by Designers & Books
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Berlin: unfertig und roh
Zurück aus Neuteutonia. Berlin: unfertig und roh. Von Nikolaus Kuhnert und Anh-Linh Ngo
»Berlin ist dazu verdammt immerfort zu werden und niemals zu sein.«
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via archplus.net
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eCollege - 3farbige Schrift in Illustrator
via Roger Thurnherr und e-college.ch
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Praça do Patriarca, São Paulo, Brazil
via Pedro Kok
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A Smile in the Mind
Witty Thinking in Graphic Design - An exploration of humour, irony and playfulness in graphic design. By Beryl McAlhone and David Stuart, with a foreword by Edward de Bono.
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»This book explores so-called witty thinking - arguably the most entertaining area of graphic design. Witty thinking is playfulness with ideas, words playing against images, and unexpected connections prompting new...
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Graphic Designer Milton Glaser
»Milton Glaser’s work is easy to spot in a lineup - it’s simple, direct and clear, while leaping over conceptual boundaries, so that his work connects directly to the viewer like a happy virus.«
via Hillman Curtis
website : miltonglaser.com video : Quicktime
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André Vladimir Heiz | Grundlagen der Gestaltung
via Zürich/CreativeMornings
wikipedia.org : André Vladimir Heiz
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Hans-Ulrich Treichel - Endlich Berliner!
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Leseprobe [PDF, 180 KB]
via suhrkamp.de
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James Biber - Architecture & Identity
Talk von James Biber [Biber Architects, biber.co] über Architecture & Identity
via vimeo.com
»James Biber has done design work unconfined by traditional disciplines since 1984, when he partnered with a graphic designer and an illustrator in his first Soho architectural office. Over his two decades at Pentagram, his work extended to include collaborations with the firm’s other architects,...
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Is the future of storytelling the future for...
Digital technology has led to massive changes in how people consume content, information and entertainment. This has meant a period of unprecedented change for the communications industry, and a blurring of the lines between disciplines.
Paddy Adams, Director of Strategy for global media agency Manning Gottlieb OMD, examines how to create more memorable, entertaining and engaging interactions...
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Berliner Start-up »Amen«
spiegel.de über das Berliner Start-up »Amen« [The Best and Worst of Everything]
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»GOOD DESIGN IS A TOUGH JOB.« von Kirsten Dietz...
GOOD DESIGN KILLS ADVERTISING - 40 Projekte, 20 Thesen, 1 Manifest - via Strichpunkt
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TYPO Berlin 2012 sustain
TYPO Berlin 2012 sustain - 17.–19. Mai 2012 im Haus der Kulturen der Welt
READ via typotalks.com
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Das FontBook als iPad-App
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via fontblog.de
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In the Cube: Michael Bierut and James Biber
casualoptimist:
In this video for Designers and Books, graphic designer and Pentagram partner Michael Bierut chats with architect James Biber about the books he selected for the site. The setting is the Rachel Whiteread-like library, or “book cube”, in Biber’s architectural office, located on the 2oth floor of Cass Gilbert’s Woolworth Building in downtown Manhattan:
The full, unabridged,...
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SAUL BASS: A Life in Film and Design
SAUL BASS: A Life in Film and Design. Laurence King, by Jennifer Bass and Pat Kirkham.
READ via nytimes.com
Publisher Laurence King put together this video of the making of the book, to give you a sense of the scale and ambition of the project:
This is the first book to be published on one of the greatest American designers of the 20th century, who was as famous for his work in film as for...
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Leo Friedman, Photographer of Broadway’s Glamour...
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via nytimes.com
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Design is becoming a competitive advantage for...
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»As we move out of the age of information and into the conceptual age, we are faced with the demand to create product experiences that are no less than exceptional.«
via venturebeat.com
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Gutenberg and how Typography is like Music
Gutenberg and how Typography is like Music | By Martin McClellan
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via mcsweeneys.net
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Letterfontäne von Joep Pohlen
Letterfontäne ist ein einzigartiges Handbuch über die gedruckte Schrift - beginnend mit den ersten Versuchen des Menschen, sich mit visuellen Zeichen und Zeichnungen zu verständigen.
Leaf through! taschen.com/lookinside
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Radio Portrait of Eric Gill (1961)
As part of retrospective on British sculptors, the BBC has recently re-published a 1961 radio program on Eric Gill (1882–1940).
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Bodoni, Handbuch der Typografie - Manuale...
Die Geburt einer Universalschrift. Der vollständige Nachdruck von Bodonis rarem Meisterwerk. Der berühmte Buchdrucker und Typograf Giambattista Bodoni setzte mit seinem Manuale tipografico (1818) einen neuen Standard für den Buchdruck.
Leaf through! taschen.com/lookinside
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TYPO Berlin 2011 »Shift«
impressions by Robert Schatton
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The demand for it
»Perhaps the most obvious closure or psychic consequence of any new technology is just the demand for it. Nobody wants a motorcar till there are motorcars, and nobody is interested in TV until there are TV programs. This power of technology to create its own world of demand is not independent of technology being first an extension of our own bodies and senses.«
— Marshall McLuhan, Understanding...
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The disembodied user
»Any medium presents a figure whose ground is always hidden, or subliminal. In the case of TV, as of the telephone and radio, the subliminal ground could be called the discarnate or disembodied user. This is to say that when you are on the telephone, or on the air, you do not have a physical body. In these media, the sender is sent, and is instantaneously present everywhere. The disembodied...