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How Books Are Made
Designed by Funnel Inc for Webcrafters a book manufacturer, this infographic aims at getting a customer to appreciate the complexity of the process to understand costs of production. Apart from just clients and customers, students about head out into the professional world would find something like this useful to prepare themselves for what they will ...
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The New Tanpura
It is a common joke that all Tamil Brahmin children are trained in either classical dance or music. I was no exception. Although I did eventually leave music after a few years, many of my childhood memories involve my music class. All our music books had an image of the Trinity of Carnatic music, each ...
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Nick India channel IDs by Rajiv Eipe
Animation Xpress has done a piece on some new Nick India channel IDs by NID alumnus (plug!), Rajiv Eipe for Vaibhav Studios. Rajiv has a notoriously low profile online and it’s a shame that the article doesn’t contain any embeds of the actual spots. The final idents have a tremendous amount of energy and color ...
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Toyota iQ font: The Making
Ok, so the guys at Creative Review covered this last year. I only just discovered it today thanks to quickerthanfiction. It’s a font created by Happiness Brussels for Toyota’s IQ car using some motion tracking technology and plain, simple imagination. Winner of the Cannes Design Lions Grand Prix, it’s not hard to see why the ...
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Sky’s new branding: When 3D logos actually work
I’m going to make a generalization here that design for broadcast is overladen with excessive use of 3D logos, kinky After Effects filters and abstract graphic forms that begin to border on insipidity after a point. The folks at venturethree however, have made the new 3D Sky logo work – work hard, and work well. ...
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The Saree as Political Ideology
Sonia Gandhi ranks 13th on Forbes’ 2009 list of the 100 most powerful women in the world; and in the convoluted corridors of Indian politics, her door is where the buck stops. She has come a long way: from the little town of Lusiana, Italy, to becoming the President of the Indian National Congress, India’s ...
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Hyperactivitypography
Hyperactivitypography, designed by Studio3 for Arctic Paper, is an activity book for typographers. It is illustrated and treated like in a style typical of childrens’ workbooks. The book is packed with activities, ranging from silly to hard core nerdiness. I just love how the whole thing is structured.
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Freya Blackwood: Children’s Book Illustrator
Yesterday I came across this story about Freya Blackwood, an Australian children’s book illustrator who has just won the prestigious CILIP Kate Greenaway medal for her book Harry and Hooper. A beautiful series of watercolour and pencil illustrations, I can’t wait to get my hands on a copy at the local bookstore! (C) Freya Blackwood, ...
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The Ahimsa Mousetrap
Congratulations to Aakash Dewan of DSK International School of Design! Not only has OneDown, his design for a humane mousetrap, won a Gold IDEA award this year, it has also become a frontrunner on every news feature that talks about the awards! (Here are the mentions on Core77 and FastCompany) One of the judges commended ...