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A Ray Harryhausen Special
With lots of art, over at Forbidden Planet.
Jason and the Argonauts
How Mr Spock was born
The story of the famous Heineken poster. Here. Via The History of Advertising Trust.
At this point, Paul did what any sane art director would do. He took the problem to somebody who some people considered to be totally insane. He invoked the counsel of his group head, the one and only Alan Waldie, creator of the famous Benson & Hedges surreal campaign.
The Poster for Heineken
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And ad for British Airways. Full credits and lots of the little details over on the Behance site.
© BBH Singapore & Design Team
The Art of Brian Sanders
Five decades of illustration. The full flickr set can be found here. Via things magazine.
My first meeting with Brian was during the 1960s, when as art director of Woman’s Mirror, I commissioned him to illustrate a ten-part serial for the magazine. During the past year we have renewed our acquaintanceship becoming friends, and realizing that we have much history in common.
Illustration for Stanley Kubrick. Taken from the flickr set.
Using Type
An interesting series of tutorials and articles over at the FontShop Blog.
The new series is called Using Type, and it’s a return to the basics. How to use grids and figures and hyphenation and titles and so forth will be the topic at hand, and what I hope to accomplish with it is the creation of a space where all of us can learn something, and contribute something.
© FontShop Blog
All retro design again
A fabulous board over at Pinterest: Graphics – Retro & Vintage. Yay!
Taken from Pinterest
Mobstr
What a wonderful idea. Via Book Patrol.
In “The Story” Mobstr paints a sentence on an outer wall of a construction site and waits until is is painted over “to preserve the local cities aesthetic” before he adds his next sentence.
Photo © Mobstr
Ein typographisches Zitat
Nichts Weißes: Roman (German Edition) (Ziegler, Ulf Erdmann)
- Your Highlight on Page 132 | Location 2015-2020
»Die Schrift bestimmt den Sinn all dessen, was wir tun. Wir lernen mit sechs oder sieben Jahren zu schreiben, danach sind wir keine Analphabeten mehr. Schrift ist überall, und je mehr wir lesen, desto weniger sehen wir sie. Wenn wir uns also hier der Schrift zuwenden, dann befragen wir unsere Alphabetisierung. Wir versuchen, uns in den Zustand des Analphabeten zurückzuversetzen. Wir betrachten den Buchstaben, aber nicht seinen Sinn und auch nicht seinen Laut, sondern seine Gestalt. Wir verwandeln etwas, was bis dahin passiv war, in etwas Aktives. Seht euch die Ordnung des Setzkastens an, die nicht alphabetisch ist. Und warum ist sie das nicht?«
