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A Designer and His Problems

In February, I was fortunate enough to attend a lecture with Paul Sahre hosted by the AIGA New York chapter. I usually attend a lot of these kinds of lectures, but this one is probably one of my favourites. Its always great to hear a speaker talk very casually about his work, and it was quite refreshing to see how confident he was in talking about both his successes and failures. To my enjoyment, the video has been posted online and I’d highly recommend watching it if you have a bit of spare time.

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Filed under: Book, Conceptual, Design, Editorial, Events, Experimental, Film, Lecture, Portfolio, Print, Publications, Typography, Video

Go Ed!

I got such a laugh out of this. Virgin is always so good at putting out commercials. Now if only this Ed was Asian.

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Nothing: The Cardboard Office

An entire office made of cardboard. What a great idea. Lets hope the sprinklers don’t come on, or they get hit with a humid day in the office.

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Filed under: Architecture, DYI, Design, Experimental

On everyday politeness…

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Liquids in space and other phenomena

I just love liquid and how it behaves. Here are a few of my favourites, going from less weird, to super weird.

Coffee loving astronaut invents a space mug based on fuel tanks for rockets

Liquid and wave behavior in 0G

More after the jump.
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Smittens

Mittens for two! Thanks for the link, Simon!

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Book Cover Archive Blog

Who says you can’t judge a book by its cover? While looking through swissmiss earlier today, I discovered this beautifully simple archive of over 800 book covers. One thing I really appreciate about this site is their list of links to other online book archives (including fwis) and others I haven’t seen before. There’s also a very nice blog that goes with the archive.

Book Cover Archive

The website was designed by General Projects out of Rockport, Maine. They’ve also done other really great work, so check out their portfolio when you get the chance.

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Lvov, Home of the World’s Biggest Crossword Puzzle?

I feel like this kind of real interaction is needed in urban spaces. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if there was a scrabble game like this? Or other kind of game / puzzle? I guess this is similar to other groups like improv everywhere, or the people who organize those photo scavenger hunts. Can anybody read what it says?

“The Ukrainian city Lvov has recently installed what might just be the world’s biggest crossword (in physical size). The puzzle covers the entire side of a residential tower block that’s approximately 30 meters tall. During the day the crossword appears empty – with the answers lighting up at night.”

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Filed under: Architecture, Conceptual, Events, Exhibit, Interactive, Performance, Urban Design, Urban planning

Iron Sky

I love the attention to detail, the carefully crafted shots, and the subtleties that give it a mysterious dark quality to it. Too bad its coming out in 2018. Oh and apparently its a comedy.

Watch it in HD here.

Via Computerlove

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