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Neville Brody: Wanker or Genius?
I went along to the D&AD lecture last night, during which it was stated we would finally decide whether Neville Brody is a wanker or a genius. Everyone was even given Ready Steady Cook style cards...
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An ounce of action
Napoleon’s quote “A throne is only a bench covered in velvet” is currently getting all the attention as part of the latest Art on the Underground poster campaign in London. While I’m struggling to see...
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Selling snow to Eskimos
AKA Selling Twitter to twits. Twitter might not have worked out how to make money out of its free services yet, but other people have. It reminded me of those machines you get on garage forecourts...
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Seeing red
From the brand that brought you this oddity now comes a whole new level of indulgent nonsense. The red-attired assault on the tube station exit this morning had only one result… …they were everywhere....
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Hold the front page
The shortlisted entries for the Metro Wrap design competition have been put up on the D&AD blog. The brief was to take over the front outside and inside cover of commuter paper Metro for one day...
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Footwall of fame
Here’s a little typographic treat for the World Cup. Tweet your messages to @thefootwall and we’ll show them on our giant scoreboard on the side of The Brand Union in Farringdon, London. It’s typeset...
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I love this new 8-bit map of London by Brett Camper, showing what happens when the vintage graphical power of the NES meets the cutting edge GPS data of Google maps. You can zoom in and out and search...
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Terminal
They’ve been redeveloping Blackfriars station forever now. Hopefully the kerning is on their to-do list.
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Tube or false?
As regular readers to this blog might remember, I do like the patterns on public transport seats, specifically those on the tube. I even tried to do some design with them once and had my fascination...
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Tourist traps
Tourists’ photos all look the same don’t they? That’s what Corinne Vionnet thought, in fact she went and proved it by overlaying hundreds of tourist photos from the internet. The result is a series of...
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