July 2010
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Crochet + Advertising
This is from a few years ago, but I’m speechless.
TAXI Canada was brought in to help promote [the D&AD awards] and created a number of outputs to do just that. Part of a campaign was this 300-pound crocheted pencil shaped installation that was draped over a water tower at 395 Broadway in New York City.
300 pounds! I wonder how much yarn and time it took. The photo suggests that...
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French Words With No English Translation →
Dépaysement: The sensation of being in another country.
La douleur exquise The heart-wrenching pain of wanting someone you can’t have. Even a Sex in the City episode was named after it!
Chômer To be unemployed, but because it’s a verb, it makes the state active.
Profiter To make the most of or take advantage of.
Flâneur As defined in the book Elegant Wits and Grand Horizontals, it’s “the...
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Djeco Toys
This colorful, whimsical workspace is from a Parisian toy company called Djeco (I think they make wooden toys and games). The illustrations are by Christian Montenegro.
I did a bit more research, and everything about Djeco is so adorable, maybe except their logo.The toys, games, and web pages all carry an aesthetic of hand-illustrated, flat graphics with patterns and animals. Their line of...
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Girl Scouts identity
The Girl Scouts identity has been redesigned by The Original Champions of Design.
There are some nice things with this one, but they are not completely resolved.
I like the trefoil shape and the thinking behind the changes. But, the actual execution is off the mark. I understand that the ladies in previous logo look too adult, but the bangs in the new one just aren’t sitting well with...
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Print revolution
Wow — this project is incredible! It’s a mailer for Loyola University Maryland, created by 160/90. From their Boomerang Table blog:
The task was to create a mailer for Loyola that was aimed at high school Sophomores and Juniors—a time when many prospective students are feeling overwhelming emotions (both good and bad) about college. So instead of going down a tried and trite path full of...
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The Girl Who Didn't Do Her Research
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When Nora Ephron wrote her cute little riff on the Swedish thriller novels by Stieg Larsson for the July 5th edition of the New Yorker she got lazy.
The humorous story revolves around a stuck Alt key and the inability to produce an umlaut (¨ as in ä and ö), but you see Swedes don’t use the same keyboard layout that English-speaking do, which she assumed. Our keyboards not only have...
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The Big Parade
I’m loving this post from Keith Scharwath about the Big Parade, “a 35-mile, two-day stairway hike through Los Angeles”.
Many people don’t realize that L.A. has a network of public stairways connecting hillside streets. … Before L.A. was saturated with automobiles, there was a robust public transit system consisting mainly of streetcars. The stairways were built so that...