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Cartography love: a map based on population density

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Derek Watkins is a cartography lover that has some interesting map work on his website. Based on the map designing principles of William Bungehe took off where he left things and worked on a simplified world map that is built upon the population density. It's an interesting experiment, you're able to see how the world's population is distributed and what the power countries are. It's an...

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Amazing findings: Re-designing NYC's Metrocards

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Melanie Chernock is a graphic designer that came up with a very interesting project for her Communication Design class at the School of Visual Arts. It is based on the re-design of the classical NYC's metrocard, one of the most used things by citizens daily. Her statement is based on how these cards should be properly designed, and why not come up with different versions of it?...

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Beautiful Branding: Ritmia

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Ritmia is a music-therapy consult ran by Celia Castillo. Her work is based on the effect that music has on her patients, mainly how they affect their mood and treating them from this angle. Catalan agency Atipus was in charge of the branding project and they took as their inspiration the very basis of Castillo's work: music.

The main challenge they encountered was to make an...

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Beautiful Branding: Pigmentol

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Pigmentol is a recently launched German printing company that specializes in high quality printing on different applications. Design studios Feld and ATMO collaborated on the branding process of the company and they've created a very interesting corporate identity. The logo of Pigmentol is pretty basic -plain typographic work- but when you see what they've come up with for the...

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Graphic Design Classics: Vintage Razor Blades Packaging

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Continuing the retrospective on vintage graphic design, here are some beautiful examples of old packaging, specifically old razor blades wrappers. Before the times of disposable razors, individual blades were sold for the old school techniques, and these beautiful pieces are a great testimony of early modern packaging design. According to the graphic styles of the time, these little boxes...

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