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Something for the Weekend

May 13, 2011

Canadian book designer Bill Douglas annotates one of his favourite covers for the newly launched Toronto weekly The Grid. Tools of the Trade — Jonathon Green, author of the three volume Green’s Dictionary of Slang and the somewhat more compact and affordable Chambers Slang Dictionary, on the life of a lexicographer: What I do is [...]

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Dieter Rams and Vitsœ: 10 Principles of Good Design

December 2, 2010

Mark Adams, Managing Director of Vitsœ, discusses Dieter Ram’s 10 principles of good design and the elegant 606 Universal Shelving System with Cool Hunting: And for those of you who just need to see a little more of the 606 Universal Shelving System (and who doesn’t?) here is a short film of it in action: [...]

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Something for the Weekend

July 2, 2010

Dieter Rams book by graphic design graduate Daniel Bartha: This project was a book I created around the ten most important principles for what Dieter Rams considered was good design. Taking on board these elements myself, I took away as much as I could from his unique designs but to still leave them instantly recognisable. [...]

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The Abolition of Built-In Obsolescence

March 29, 2010

A nice short video about Dieter Rams’ design philosophy and the recent exhibition of his work at the Design Museum London: What has this got to do with books? Well, it’s a timely reminder to care about what we make… (video via Coudal Partners’ Fresh Signals)

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Midweek Miscellany

December 9, 2009

Well, oh shit. Go fuck yourself — The pugnacious George Lois in BlackBook magazine: The design was the idea. I don’t design, if you know what I mean. If you want Andy Warhol being devoured by his own fame in a can of Cambell’s soup, you just put the can there and you have him [...]

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