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Visual Response 2.0 at the Australian INfront

posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 11 March, 2010 to the design and art subset

Visual Response returns to the Australian INfront, albeit in a slightly different format, as submitted images can now include photos and scans, something not permitted in the past. The theme for the first of the rebooted Visual Response’s is “2010″.
Australian INfront is indeed back.

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Kaleidoscopic font patterns created by five different typefaces

posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 11 March, 2010 to the design and art subset

Katerina Orlikova’s kaleidoscopes use fonts to create their psychedelic patterns.

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From station to station, a gallery of old railway posters

posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 9 March, 2010 to the design and art subset

A huge collection of vintage style railway posters.

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A guide to arranging your own art exhibition and opening

posted by John Lampard on Monday, 8 March, 2010 to the design and art subset

Ask anyone what they like the best about going to an art show and most people will tell you it’s the opening night party.
And who can blame them, after all what better way is there to spend an evening, than enjoying some brand new art while partying?
So while from a show-goer’s point of view [...]

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The minimal style movie posters of Stephen King

posted by John Lampard on Friday, 5 March, 2010 to the design and art subset

Nicholas Tassone has designed a series of minimal movie posters based on the novels of Stephen King.

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Building a ship is one thing, but in a bottle, that’s something else

posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 4 March, 2010 to the design and art subset

This how-to guide, from the September 2006 edition of “Boys’ Life” magazine, makes the process of building a model ship in a bottle look rather simple…
Building a ship in a bottle only looks mysterious. With patience, skill and a few tools, you can finish a bottle craft while your friends wonder, “How’d he do [...]

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Sketches of my trip to the Moon during the Apollo missions

posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 4 March, 2010 to the design and art subset

Joey Parlett’s series of 36 sketches based on photos taken mainly during the Apollo Moon missions.

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Art may be money for some but some money may also be art

posted by John Lampard on Friday, 26 February, 2010 to the design and art subset

30 examples of dollar notes that have been artistically modified.

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The posters of Alphabet city

posted by John Lampard on Friday, 26 February, 2010 to the design and art subset

A selection of posters that were part of the Scalacolore Exhibition in 2008.
The concept was: Take a letter of an alphabet, looking for a selection of 10 cities in the world that starts with this letter, say which languages are spoken in these places, say where are you from and which is your language.

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More book cover artwork, more books to judge by their covers

posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 24 February, 2010 to the design and art subset

I can’t get enough of retro/vintage book cover image collections.

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