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Pantone iPad and iPhone Protective Cases
The designers at Case Scenario have joined forces with Pantone to present every designer's dream to iPhone and iPad users. The Case Scenario Pantone Universe collection is a set of protective shells for your iPhone 4 and iPad, presented in a limited range of PANTONE colors.
For iPhone 4, there are nine colors ranging from the deep Pantone Blue 7462 to Pantone Pink 226. For iPad, the Fall...
Tim Yarzhombeck's Beard Font Alphabet
Tim Yarzhombeck has had a personal exhibition at the Dom Club, and has taken part in several multi-artist exhibitions. Author of the well-known Hairwash and Simplefigures projects, Yarzhombeck has recently created a brilliant new font, and his entire alphabet uses bearded men as characters. We weren't able to find a download, but found this facial hair font too good to not write about!
Helvetica - The Documentary Movie
Directed by Gary Hustwit, and released in 2007, Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface, the legendary Helvetica, as part of a bigger picture as to how type affects our culture. It also delves into the history of the sans serif typeface, which was developed in 1957 by Swiss graphic designer Max Miedinger.
Signalnoise Creates "Help Japan" Poster
Artist James White, aka Signalnoise, created this starkly beautiful image to encourage people to give to the Red Cross and other charities that are working to help the thousands of Japanese people in need of aid after the 8.9-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami on March 11.
He designed the image in under an hour, saying "It was a simple way to illustrate the destruction from the...
Design Showcase - Movie Barcodes
Movie Barcode, a Tumblr blog, takes legendary full-length films and compresses them so small that they end up looking like colorful bar codes. Let's say you had the largest wide-screen display in the universe, and you stretched out the bar codes, well, then you would actually see the entire movie, frame by frame.