Happy 50th, Museum of Modern Art Oxford

In honor of their upcom­ing 50th anniver­sary, the Mod­ern Art Oxford is dis­play­ing 50 exhi­bi­tion posters from their archive to the pub­lic. Stuff like this makes me really appre­ci­ate the sim­plis­tic design sen­si­bil­i­ties of so many design­ers from the UK. Check …

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Internation Year of Chemistry Posters by Simon Page

Simon C Page is back with another series of prints ded­i­cated to a field of sci­ence. As usual, they are fan­tas­tic. Great col­ors, great type, great min­i­mal­ism. View them all here. See his other set of posters devoted to astronomy, …

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IBM Smarter Planet

Being a huge fan of Herb Lubalin and pretty much every­thing that came out of that man’s brain, I love these posters that intel­li­gently incor­po­rate his ITC Lubalin Graph type­face. To me, this type­face speaks to all things techy with …

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Great collection of retro logos

Check out this incred­i­ble and inspir­ing Flickr col­lec­tion of retro logos, fit­tingly named Retro Logo Goodness.

Minimal Pan Am Posters

You have to love these min­i­mally per­fect travel posters from 1971, designed by the leg­endary design firm Cher­may­eff & Geis­mar for Pan Am. I think my neigh­bors had some in their base­ment when I was younger, strung up on a …

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The Art of Hermann Zapf

This is a truly inspi­ra­tional video for any­one inter­ested in the art of let­ter­ing. I am rethink­ing my wed­ding design ideas already. It might be fun to get out the pens and ink bot­tles again and try to use some …

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Eight Hour Day

Eight Hour Day is a hus­band and wife design team that absolutely ranks high among my favorite design shops. Their work is a great mix of vin­tage and con­tem­po­rary with excel­lent type skills and illus­tra­tions. They have recently redesigned their …

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Thisisdisplay.org

Keep­ing on with my look back at the greats of design his­tory, I wanted to post about a great resource I found today. I’m sure it is old news to most design afi­ciona­dos but Thisisdisplay.org, or Dis­play, is a curated …

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Alvin Lustig

I love design from the first half of the 20th cen­tury. It is the period that marked the birth of mod­ern adver­tis­ing and design. For some rea­son, maybe because I wasn’t pay­ing atten­tion, I don’t remem­ber learn­ing a whole lot …

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Linotype: The Film

It seems to me that graphic design has been becom­ing more and more pop­u­lar these days. From being casu­ally men­tioned as a cool line of work (in Juno) to being the protagonist’s occu­pa­tion (sev­eral movies and more impor­tantly Mad Men, …

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