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  • Mina Loy, sketch for an alphabet (1941) (Beinecke collection)

  • Dead Meat Clothing

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    Formed by Giovanni De Pol and six other young people living in Italy between Modena and Milan, Dead Meat clothing comes from a sort of Italian countryside version of a Warholian Factory with ontology as a main focus.

    Seemingly more art oriented and consciously philosophical than market-driven, the resulting collection…

  • What’s In Your Design Toolbox? Part 4: Jeff Finley

    This is part 4 of the Design Toolbox Series where I interview top designers about what tools they use to help them create their art. This series was largely inspired by Grace Smith’s “Show Me Your Dock Series.” It’s my hope that you can gain insight into what other designer’s…

  • Evelin Kasikov

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    In an age when most graphic designers choose pixels over paintbrushes, Evelin Kasikov uses cross-stitch embroidery to create images based on CMYK printing. While still a masters student at Central St. Martins, the London-based designer made her name with the technique, integrating traditional craft with modern technology to explore various…

  • 13 Free Plugins to Transform Your WordPress-Based Site

    Webdesigner DepotWordPress is a popular blogging engine and CMS in part because of the active community of users and the vast resources that are available. There are thousands of plugin developers that have worked to extend the possibilities of WordPress, and these plugins can provide plenty of opportunities for you to…

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  • Inspiration – 40+ Really Cool Fitted Hat Designs

    I’ve been a big fan of fitted hats for a long time. So I often check to see what cool new stuff is out. There are tons of designs out there, other than your normal sports team logo. A lot of the designs are great, and use wonderful typography, illustrations,…

  • 2010-03-17 | Movie Wallas

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    “Movies are discussed and reviewed by three movie fans in these entertaining podcasts, which are available through iTunes and on moviewallas.com. The Moviewallas were attending an Oscar screening party in San Diego, and they wanted a logo for their website, T-shirts, flyers and business cards, and also on the iTunes…

  • Masked In Flight

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    For frequent travelers with no problem looking like they stepped from the set of a “Silence of the Lambs” remake, one of designer Sruli Recht’s latest “non products” (as he calls them), reinvents the sleep mask with add-ons like built-in air purifiers and ear covers. Recht constructed the series of…

  • Master Class: TypIDentity”This typeface is confusing.”

    • Wednesday, 17 Mar 2010, 12:00 GMT+7 (8 hours ago)
    • By: Grids, Grids

    Ever wonder what it’s like at the top?  Ever stare at your Indesign-ed
    monitor, wishing you could churn out award-winning work (or even work
    that matters?!) Ever flip through Blender, Wired, or New York and and
    wish you had those resources, or knew how they got it done? What’s separating…

  • Mark Burckhardt on the making-of his Texas Monthly cover

    • Wednesday, 17 Mar 2010, 11:01 GMT+7 (9 hours ago)
    • By: Grids, Grids

    Over on Drawger there’s an excellent behind-the-scenes look at this month’s Texas Monthly cover (shown here) marking the 15th anniversary of Tejano singer Selena’s tragic death. Illustrator Marc Burckhardt walks through the process from commission to drafts to completed cover (including subscriber versions without a UPC code–go TJ Tucker, Creative…

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  • Win 5 Copies of “jQuery: Novice to Ninja”

    Sitepoint is known to consistently release amazing books.
    Their latest book, “jQuery: Novice to Ninja”, covers jQuery, one of the most powerful JavaScript frameworks.
    The exciting new 390-page book is perfect for any jQuery user, regardless of whether you’re a beginner, advanced, or somewhere in-between.
    WDD has once again partnered with Sitepoint…

  • Savant Home Automation Systems

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    Savant seamlessly organizes the control of the many elements of a home—lighting, security, A/V, Internet, and even sprinklers—into one handy remote.

    The only Apple-based networking program like it on the market, Savant simplifies the many seemingly disparate aspects of living into one centralized system. From adjusting the heat in the…

  • Need For Speed: The FCC’s Plan for Broadband

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    Today our post is from Tom Harnish, who is a telework evangalist, writer, and researcher at the TeleworkResearchNetwork.com. He co-authored the popular press book,
    Undress For Success–The Naked Truth About Making Money at Home (Wiley
    2009).Sad, but true, U.S. broadband penetration ranks 15th among the 30 top industrialized nations, according…

  • Lift Hold Roll: Call for Submissions

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    Conceived around three readymade objects—a pulley, clamp or caster—design shop The Future Perfect is curating a show to take place during ICFF called “Lift Hold Roll.” They’re currently taking submissions of ideas that incorporate one (or multiples of one) of the useful devices in a piece.

    The boutique will provide…

  • Climate-Based Art

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    Two artists separated by a continent—Ap Verheggen and Nasser Azam—recently completed independent climate-based projects, each using weather to indicate the outcome.

    Verheggen, who calls Holland his home, installed the first in a series of four sculptures, which will all be placed in geographic areas undergoing severe climate changes (pictured above).…

  • Junichi Oguro “Sound Art Exhibition”

    • Wednesday, 17 Mar 2010, 07:53 GMT+7 (12 hours ago)
    • By: SHIFT, SHIFT

    Walking down stairs to the gallery CAI02, you will hear harmonious birds singing…

  • If you don’t have a destination…


    What are your goals? Freedom? Money? Quality of lifestyle? Moving out of the spare bedroom? You may have heard the saying, “If you don’t have a destination, any path will take you there,” and that’s precisely true when it comes to business goals. Without them, you can end up anywhere.…

  • Starting Out Organized: Website Content Planning The Right Way

      So many articles explain how to design interfaces, design graphics and deal with clients. But one step in the Web development process is often skipped over or forgotten altogether: content planning. Sometimes called information architecture, or IA planning, this step doesn’t find a home easily in many people’s workflow. But…

  • Cake Sale

    Sweets and typography are one of those combinations I can’t ever resist. So I’m loving this album artwork created for The Cake Sale, an album featuring collaborations between Irish and international singers and songwriters, by AAD.

  • ARTFUL COMMUNICATION: Embracing Change

    • Wednesday, 17 Mar 2010, 07:00 GMT+7 (13 hours ago)
    • By: Grids, Grids

    No matter how talented we are, at some point, we all experience that “writing on the wall” moment, when we  know that it’s time to move on. Maybe it’s downsizing, or a new editorial direction-or whatever-but it’s something no one’s immune to, especially not these days…

    Part of Gina Barnett’s…

  • METROPOLIS Shop — Pietari Posti

  • Kotik: Jewelry Made From Packaging

  • W+W By Gabriele And Oscar Buratti

  • Zeus Jones

    Zeus Jones is a Minneapolis-based design firm that produces consistently smart, polished and beautiful work, no matter what the medium. Their pool of talent is extremely impressive—I’ve actually posted about two of their employees, Brad Surcey and Celeste Provost before. And from packaging to retail to interactive projects, their archive…

  • Ask FreelanceSwitch #7


    In this issue of Ask FreelanceSwitch, Travis King and Thursday Bram look at the budget selector and what to do when the client isn’t adhering to the contract.
    Ask FreelanceSwitch is a new regular column here that allows us to help beginners get a grip on freelancing. If you have…

  • 5 Tips For Filing Your Taxes Easily

    Income taxOne thing that scares a lot of professionals away from becoming freelancers is the thought of doing taxes.
    Taking care of your taxes shouldn’t be scary. Especially if you’re a one person business, filing your taxes can easily be done in less than 30 minutes.
    In this post, I’ll share…

  • Hand Drawn Type Collection

    On my wishlist: the Hand Drawn Type Collection from You Work for Them. Below are just a few of the 12 OpenType fonts that are part of the set, and each one is based on an original hand drawn alphabet. Check out the full collection right here.


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