I know, I know, why start at Sean Combs, ever since the dawn of hip hop, break beats have been used to remix music by popular artists. It is in fact what all DJ’s did in the early days; mix other people’s music together to get a new sound. But, in my lifetime, [...]

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So, my first brazilian post! Here are some really cool pillows from brazil. Leave it to a brazilian company to understand the wonders of early american cinema. They make t-shirts too. Now I gotta figure out how to buy one.
*By the way note that the translation of Laurel and Hardy in Portuguese, (O Gordo [...]

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So, who knew Entertainment Weekly had some hidden gems. I guess my cubicle neighbor Dan did, but besides him? Apparently Stephen King writes for them occasionally, so there’s that. Anyway two articles I recently read that I’ve been talking about are, Eddie Vedder on his soundtrack to Sean Penn’s Into the Wild, [...]

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[audio http://www.saddle-creek.com/sounds/GeorgieJames_CakeParade.mp3]
This one comes from Georgie James, DC duo Laura Burhenn and John Davis (drummer from the art-punk Q and not U), a fun pop song to start the week. Enjoy.

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I just saw this insane video and had to share it. Seriously, look how defeated the monkey gets when the dog doesn’t step up to the challenge.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W82e-1mCGZQ]

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So I just got back from seeing Helvetica at IFC, and I really enjoyed it, with sharp observations by Michael Bierut, the intensity of Erik Spiekermann, and a humorous, and not drunk David Carson just to name a few.
Here are my personal highlights.
-Massimo Vignelli’s studio.
-Lars Müller pointing at Helvetica signs in what looks like a [...]

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Lately I have been trying to get into the mindset of classic latin american design (you’d think that would be easy for someone who’s refered to as “Johnny Brazil”). The people over at colour lovers put together a nice color set on peru, and the amazing typographers at typophile put together a great list a [...]

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Brendan Dawes relaunches his Saul Bass tribute site… and Typographica is offering up the Hitchcock font found previously on the old version of the site. For more of Saul check out here and here. This video is great as well…
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-WzF-XBILw]
also check out these other great videos by archie boston on 20 outstanding LA [...]

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So I was on quipsologies last night and saw a post from the Creative Review Blog about Ugly design, Super Super is ugly, but ugly on purpose? so does that make good design? I don’t know, it has to be nice to be able to be free and reckless with design. [...]

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I was on popurls today and saw a post from del.icio.us about typography in music videos and it got me to thinking about all the great typography I have been seeing in videos lately. (My favorites from the link are Dylan, not new but awesome[make your own here, thanks j.], The Hush Sound, NYC built [...]

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