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Designing Obama

Jun 19, ’10 3:07 PM

2010 06-18 Obama Book

ObamaSeveral months ago I pre-ordered this cool book called Designing Obama. I got my copy in the mail on Friday and I really like it.

It came in a beautiful de-embossed die-cut sleeve, it’s cloth bound and foil stamped and it’s filled with some really cool images and stories about the design produced for the campaign.

The book was published with money collected in a novel way. The book was purposed on this cool website called Kickstarter. Kickstarter is an escrow between hundreds of small doners and some project that needs support. So my pre-order directly funded the publishing of the book, which feels pretty cool. From the website:

We believed the Obama-like fundraising model is the perfect way to ensure the book’s integrity and quality. People supported this project; funded its creation, and changed way we think about traditional publishing. We were happy to see the community support our approach.

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U-LINE, America’s IKEA

Apr 14, ’10 10:45 PM

The U-LINE catalog is dripping with international modernist design. Just look at this timeless stuff. Take the BUNN coffee maker for example, you see these everywhere, cafes, offices, hotel lobbies, the mechanic’s shop. It was designed 40 years ago in Illinois by the company that invented commercial drip coffee makers.

I would love to walk into an office that was furnished by U-LINE. Fixtures, metal stools, big desks, wire shelves. I’m serious. How long until they have a home/office catalog come out to rival IKEA?

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kvncsy.com iPad Screenshot

Apr 7, ’10 7:25 AM

This site has been iPad silent until now, but Stephen Raslie was nice enough to send me a screenshot of this site on his brand new iPad. Thanks Stephen! I invite any other recent iPad owners (is there any kind?) to take a photo of their iPad displaying this post on their new machine.

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Illustrator: Matthew Hodson

Feb 25, ’10 12:52 PM

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Check out Matthew Hodson’s portfolio.
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Vintage Lolita Covers

Feb 21, ’10 11:20 PM

The fabulous vintage design blog Words and Eggs posted a compelling collection of Lolita Covers.
Lolita Covers

From Greater Than:

The Second Pass recently linked to this gallery of covers to different editions of Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita (as well as to this competition for people to give it their own design).

It’s certainly not a book that’s been universally well-served by designers. There are some covers that want to suggest Humbert Humbert’s lascivious gaze but, to avoid straying into the same morally reprehensible territory as Humbert himself, they do so with an image of a full-grown woman rather than a pre-pubescent girl. Others just have illustrations of fairly inept nymphets (there are some real grotesques in there). And there’s also some good design (as you’d hope in a collection of slightly more than 150 images).

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