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Letterproeftuin’s The Smallest Printing Company

celebratedesign.org It runs like a beta—a little buggy.

It’s got pretty mixed reviews, but I’m digging the concept.

Same ol’ g? Think again: A visual study of the lowercase g.

ArtCenter’s online magazine, Dot—several articles well worth a read—

Click the unicorn to see the full atlas.

Via The Credits website: One of the Greatest Cinematographers Ever: Gravity‘s Emmanuel Lubezki. And Director Alfonso Cuarón and Re-recording Mixer Skip Lievsay on sound:   SoundWorks Collection: The Sound of Gravity from Michael Coleman on Vimeo.

Box from Bot & Dolly on Vimeo.

Ira Glass on Storytelling from David Shiyang Liu on Vimeo.

From Fast Co. Design: The Amazing History of London’s Most Enduring Logo

Here is a link that contains several free Andrew Loomis books that have been converted into pdfs for easy downloading. Andrew Loomis is an illustrator and draftsman from the 50s and 60s. The first book listed, Creative Illustrations, contains in depth studies of Line, Tone, Color, and Creating Ideas. I skimmed through the book and

In the category of surprising + wonderful places (and things): http://www.lesmachines-nantes.fr/en/ You may remember the picture of the huge spider walking through the streets. These are are the designers and engineers who are responsible for it.

Test your “COLOR IQ” — I did OK but my eyes started hurting so I let the refinements go. I would suggest lowering the brightness on your screen a bit.

I hope you all have an enjoyable and restful holiday weekend! I will not be checking the blog posts for several days. See you all next week. Here is a US stamp when we still did engraving on stamps—miss that, but we do get forever stamps.