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+ Just in case you hadn't noticed: take note, here comes China!
+ More Olympic news: Italian cycling team uses Wonton typeface!
+ Simple and beautiful indents for Al-Jazeera English
+ Emirates tosses its in-flight magazine to save fuel
+ Over 19,000 airline meals (now where's that airsick bag?)
+ US Government music torture playlist
+ That bump in one of Melbourne's laneways
+ Lyle Owerko's Boombox Project
+ CMYK printing by CMYK bicycles
+ Bambuser: mobile TV broadcasting
+ Magazine circulation falls 50 per-cent
+ Beautiful old posters and more
Just in case you hadn't noticed: take note, here comes China!
Where does one begin attempting to describe the Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony? Astonishing, incredible, daring, beautiful (but a little unsettling – the ceremony had overtones of North Korea's Mass Games imprinted on it for me. Huge choreographed crowds can have that effect). And as some wags in the media have been mentioning "should there be a salary/budget cap on opening ceremonies?" Some great photographs at The Big Picture.
This opening ceremony also the first to feature 'design and printing artefacts' too (dear to the heart of many a communication designer). Well, after all, the Chinese did invent paper and movable type (some 400 or so years before Gutenberg).
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And - this just in: Italian cycling team uses the Wonton typeface on their outfits. Oh dear. That's a '10' on the 'Western interpretation of China cliché-ometer'... More.
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Simple and beautiful indents for Al-Jazeera English: "They express the kind of simple dignity that an international news channel broadcasting to over 100 million people should command." You bet.
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Emirates tosses its in-flight magazine to save fuel.
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Over 19,000 airline meals (now where's that airsick bag?). Thanks Nosmo.
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US Government music torture playlist. The Barney theme song? Via BoingBoing.
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That bump in one of Melbourne's laneways. Thanks Livio.
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Lyle Owerko's Boombox Project
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CMYK printing by CMYK bicycles.
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Bambuser: mobile TV broadcasting.
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Also from PSFK: magazine circulation falls by 50 per-cent in the US.
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Beautiful old posters and more. (Via NY Plep and DRB).
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