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typostrate:

Wordboner

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designother:

Nine Lives is a self-initiated project to investigate how the older generations are affected by the huge changes in the way we communicate. For a reasearch project, this is amazing. Take a look…

alilandershindler:

stefan sagmeister :: best book cover design ever.

thedsgnblog:

Raymond Tiong  |  http://typochondria.tumblr.com

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livedesign:

So… this is a project I did awhile back in Uni. The message itself really stood out to me as it’s all about the one child law in China, some of the information I learnt through my research for it shocked me. 

The design is quite simple as I wanted the facts to stand out and not be too overshadowed. I used the simple elastic band to bind the book to give it a ‘throw away’ and easily discarded feel; it’s this discarded feeling that the content shows in relation to Chinese female babies.

richardsison:

“Eat Me” by Victionary

Now that’s tasteful design!

Hong Kong-based publisher Victionary’s latest tome, entitled Eat Me: Appetite For Design, is chock-full of inventive food packaging projects, elegant restaurant identities and interiors, and food-based art projects. It’s even designed to look like a layered wafer biscuit

Via Gavin Lucas, Creative Review

mstrfn:

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briannajohnsondesign:

HOW TO AVOID THE BUMMER LIFE

 

Category /  Book

Specs  /  4.5” x 4.5”, 144 pages

Images  /  Courtesy of the HOWTOAVOIDTHEBUMMERLIFE.COM blog

Fonts  /  Digitally-captured type & Helvetica Neue

 

For this project, I was asked by Swobo Bicycle’s Tim Parr to create a print artifact for his company’s bicycle and lifestyle weblog, How To Avoid The Bummer Life. After reading through the blog, I decided that in order to maintain its unique voice without imposing my own point of view too heavily upon it, I would literally grab from the source’s digital material and make it print. By taking countless screenshots, I chose a collection of iconic words, images and stories to exemplify just what How To Avoid The Bummer Life is and whom it represents. As to the form of the book, that too was inspired by the blog. Since a weblog is both an interactive and ephemeral experience, I wanted the book to be these things as well. So, I designed the book pages to be removable cards. The cards were made to be torn out and used at the reader’s discretion. Whether as beer coasters, wall art, dog toys or spoke cards, I ultimately wanted the How To Avoid The Bummer Life book to be something that could be used, abused, shared and enjoyed.

briannajohnsondesign:

TUBE

 

Category /  Book

Specs  /  10” x 13”, 32 pages

Images  /  Photography by Brianna Johnson

Fonts  /  Univers

 

We watch far too much television here in the United States. In fact, the notion that more people would honestly rather zone out in front of the T.V. than read a good book is staggering. Tube was a conceptual project about this phenomenon. An exploration of typography and experimental design, I wanted the design of this book to satirize America’s addiction to television. With a combination of statistical information graphics, abstracted photography of television screens and cliched promotional T.V. quotes, such as the book’s subtitle, “Stay Tuned,” my goal was to communicate the idea that we, as a people, are turning into a nation of television zombies. Beyond the titling and the quotes, Tube’s typographic style is also very abstracted, both visually and in meaning. Much in the same way that television ads always have huge, in-your-face messages combined with that ever-present ‘fine print’ that no one ever reads, I chose to juxtapose very large type with extremely tiny type. And while it might look like there is nothing to get out of some of the pages, there is always an underlying message coming from each spread. As a result of my experimentation between the balance of literal content and the meaning behind that content, I ended up creating a piece about television’s degradation of intelligence that I feel was really for an intelligent reader.

christopheraritter:

Nuna brand book by Neubau (Berlin).