Recent Highlights 93

+ Penguin's retro-styled Bond reissues
+ Sabadabada: Brazilian album covers
+ 'Paper bombs' of Korea's cold war
+ Danny Yount, title designer of Six Feet Under at By Design
+ SBS rebrands/relaunches and gets skewed
+ New Zealand type designer Kris Sowersby
+ Ancient mythical Japanese illness 'creatures'
+ The Traffic Cone Preservation Society
+ Large carbon footprint spotted in London
+ STOP HERE: Pedestrians crossing
+ Information Design Patterns

Penguin's retro-styled Bond reissues. Well, they are Bond books... Via Boicozine.

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Sabadabada: Brazilian album covers. Via Plep.

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'Paper bombs' of Korea's cold war: printed propaganda from Korea's North-South conflict 1950-2000.

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Danny Yount, title designer of Six Feet Under (and the end titles for Iron Man, amongst other things) interviewed at By Design.

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SBS rebrands/relaunches. The Mercator projection-based logo gets skewed... and the ubiquitous Helvetica Thin is added... hmmm... but is probably better than its predecessor.

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New Zealand type designer Kris Sowersby does masterful work. He was involved in the design of the lovely Meta Serif.

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Incredible mythical Japanese illness 'creatures' from the sixteenth century.

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I'm quite familiar with the (common) Lesser Striped Cone, but am amazed at the variety on display here. An, um, er... invaluable resource: The Traffic Cone Preservation Society. Via Plep.

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Large carbon footprint spotted in London.

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STOP HERE: Pedestrians crossing.

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An informative Master's thesis hits the web: Information Design Patterns. Terrific. Via Information Aesthetics.