Who said music packaging is dead? Here's a nifty little rub down number from the lovely folks at Sawdust which might make you change your mind...
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In this book, Shaw places the New York City Subway system signage in the context of 1960s transportation sign systems worldwide, the collapse of the American passenger railroad system that same decade, and the decline and rebirth of New York City from the Lindsay administration to today...
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This week's Daily Typer is the second member of the excellent Friends of Type to contribute to the Grafik blog. Jason's photos come from Sri Lanka...
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Marina Willer is a busy lady—she's creative director at Wolff Olins where she works for some of the world's biggest brands and an external assessor at the RCA, after all—but luckily for us, she's still found time to be a judge for the first-ever Grafik Design Awards...
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'SISU' is not just the Finnish term loosely translated into English as strength of will, determination, perseverance, and acting rationally in the face of adversity. But also its a candy, in the form of licorice!
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At Counter-Print (shameless plug) we get more requests for this book than any other. Weird? No, its tiny format betrays its importance and worth as a design resource and a refection of a lifetime’s worth of, for want of a better and more apt description, rigorous and thought-out design...
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Save up to 20% off Grafik 182—if you live in Australia, New Zealand or Denmark we've got special discount offers at Mag Nation and Cinnober...
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Salakauppa (Secret Shop) is a small store in a glass box on a busy central intersection. It stocks one-off products designed by the Com-pa-ny design team...
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Third of our judges is Ben Parker, co-founder of MadeThought—one of the agencies responsible for producing some of the most stunning work around...
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In the second installment of Site Specific, we meet David Bennett, the man behind essential online design resource Visuelle...
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Where can you find robots drawing humans, sculptures made of light and a giant orchestral milk float, all under one roof? The second annual Kinetica Art Fair, of course...
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Second of our judges is Nik Roope, currently creative director at Poke London, but a man who has many strings to his bow...
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This house number sign is found in Helsinki's old wooden house area known as 'Puu Valilla' OR Wood Valilla. The entire area is a surrounded by 4 storey apartment blocks. It is a hidden gem of the city's history and architecture...
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Every month we'll be giving away all of the six books that we review in the magazine to one lucky Grafik reader...
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I know this marks out the fact that the apartment building 'D' in the block running from A,B,C... But the 'P:r.' itself is a big question mark in my head...
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