Link Love: 4.22.10
• The Magazine Cover Archive is devoted to helping keep inspirational magazine design alive. It has collected thousands of magazine covers from various titles that can be instantly viewed.
• Brand New Classroom is “publishing identity work from students around the world who tackle redesigns of well-known brands as a class assignment. The focus will be as much on the final result as the process to get there.” If you’d like to submit your work to be critiqued, click here.
• Swooooonworthy: Scandinavian logos from the 60s and 70s.
• I love viewing photo essasys of people’s daily routines. Kris Atomic’s is especially beautiful.
• Just a few hours after he died in 1955, someone snapped a photo of Albert Einstein’s desk.
• How do you cope with client fallout?
• I wish I had the time to do this! Create your own Penguin book cover! You can download templates and whip up your own version – a perfect self-initiated project. (thanks, final fashion)
• Graphic design through the decades has a special roundup this week of design examples from the 1950s.
• “You ever think about how in, like, a Tom Hanks movie, everyone lives in a reality in which there’s no such person as Tom Hanks? Because otherwise, people would be mistaking the main character for Tom Hanks all the time? Yeah….me neither.
• Find out what goes into designing Selfridge’s store window displays. It’s waaaaay more work than you think!
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Ahaha that Tom Hanks thing is a mindfuck.
It reminds me of Scream, I think – Courtney Cox’s character talking about Jennifer Anniston playing someone in the movie of the events tha were happening in the movie? And all I could think was “If Jennifer Anniston exists in this world, who are you?!”
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I love the Scandinavian logos and 50s design. More inspiration to add to the folder. Thanks for sharing
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I’m loving the Brand New Classroom site.
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Alicia – Sea Of Ghosts: Exactly. I was trying to wrap my brain around all of that…what’s reality? Who exists in this reality vs. that reality? Oh…who cares? Haha.
Kiersten: I think it’s so helpful and some of that student work is pretty amazing!
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What a beautiful photo of Einsten’s desk.
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I love this! I don’t know how I stumbled upon your blog but I just wanted to say thank you for the fantastic links, photos, design work etc. that you post. It’s so refreshing and inspiring!
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