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Archive for January, 2009

CASSETTE BY SAWDUST

Beautiful cassette poster for sale by Sawdust, a creative design studio located in London.

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I WANT TO GO TO THERE

ATOM is a performance by Monolake and Christopher Bauder for a matrix of 64 gas balloons, lights, and sound. You can see it tomorrow evening at Berghain in Berlin.
A room is filled with deep, evolving noises from a four-channel sound system. An eight-by-eight array of white, self-illuminated spheres floats in space like the atoms of [...]

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TWEET!

You can now find me on Twitter at bfrancesi.

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SOUND POSTERS

Brillant sound posters by DM9DDB in Brazil.

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MAKE IT STOP!

My one and only wish for design in 2009 is that designers would stop with the weird “type art.” It’s not a trend, it never was. It’s bad and it makes my eyes hurt.
Please go away.
Thanks.

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fragrance.

Fragrance design by QSLD, a firm based in Paris, focused on art direction and design. Images via The DieLine.

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seriouly folks

Are we looking at the next Jackie O. or what?

Picture from People Magazine’s website.

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on a lighter note

I’ve finally come to my New Year’s Resolution. Maybe not so such a New Year’s Resolution as a life goal.
My goal as a designer is to some day be featured in a national magazine as a “Designer to Watch”.
Every year in January, my design magazines are touting the People to Watch in [...]

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maybe i’m not so bad afterall…

On a day that I’m feeling especially down in the dumps about my design abilities, I find this image posted on The Dieline and the world seems a bit brighter.
Last semester in my Package Design we were challenged to produce an entirely new product from an existing brand. My group chose to create the [...]

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and the angels sang…

Well, the Polaroid angels anyway. Just saw this today posted on Fill/Stroke.com

Essentially, a group called Impossible b.v. has acquired Polaroid’s old equipment and factory and plans to re-invent and start production of instant film for vintage Polaroid cameras.

The Impossible mission is NOT to re-build Polaroid Integral film but (with the help of strategic [...]

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