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Peter Lim designs

June 25, 2008 – 5:03 pm

Peter Lim’s graphic design portfolio is pretty small, but impressive. It’s one of those confusing flash based websites, so you’ll have to click on “Graphic Design”, and choose from the list of projects, then hover over the image and click on that arrow thing that appears to scroll through more photos of the project. […]

Typographic book to benefit Myanmar cyclone victims

June 25, 2008 – 3:52 pm

The people of Create/Reject have put together a design book that features the favorite typefaces from 50 of today’s top designers, and 100% percent of the profits goes toward UNICEF’s Myanmar Cyclone Children’s Appeal.
I bought one as soon as I heard about it. It looks like a fun book for type nerds and people […]

By Richard | Posted in Design Inspiration | Also tagged Graphic Design, Portfolios, Product, Typography | Comments (0)

I Want to be a Coal Miner - Vintage children’s book

June 17, 2008 – 9:24 pm

I saw this vintage children’s book at a thrift store called, I Want to be a Coal Miner. I thought that was a strange aspiration for a child and I had to thumb through it. It turns out that although the story is boring and borderline propagandistic, the illustration style was amazing. […]

By Richard | Posted in Design Inspiration | Also tagged Art, Design, Flickr, Graphic Design, Illustration, Vintage | Comments (1)

Mime alphabet book, and other vintage children’s books

April 18, 2008 – 12:58 pm

This vintage mime alphabet book looks awesome, I wish the whole thing was scanned in. It comes from an pretty sweet flickr set of vintage children’s books.

By Richard | Posted in Design Inspiration | Also tagged Flickr, Graphic Design, Illustration, Performance Art, Silly, Typography, Vintage | Comments (0)

Huge collection of logos from the 1970’s

March 19, 2008 – 1:08 am

Here’s a great Flickr set of 121 pages of logos from the 1970’s scanned from the book “World of Logotypes”. Solid black on plain white, that’s the way to do it. None of those fancy gradients and reflection cop-outs that you see everywhere these days. Just pure balance, harmony, and simplicity.
via Metafilter

By Richard | Posted in Design Inspiration | Also tagged Flickr, Graphic Design, Logos, Vintage | Comments (0)

Photo of Anne Frank’s “one true love”

February 27, 2008 – 11:50 pm

‘We didn’t know how to say goodbye. We walked from his house to mine and back again, just to be together a little while longer. Boys of twelve don’t promise to write to each other. We made jokes, because we didn’t know what else to do.’
This is the first known image of Peter, the […]