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Antique Book Cover Textures and Vintage Book Textures

Free Textures

This is a nice little collection of old, yellowed pages, super cool vintage book covers, the aged cardboard on the inside of old book covers, and some torn inside pages as well. There are even the weathered spines of old books here to use as textures. These would be perfect for use in Photoshop for antique wedding invitations, old fashioned looking cards, or would even look great as a vintage looking background on a website design or other graphics project.

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Microsoft Launching Internet Explorer 9 at SXSW

Industry News

Most web-savvy people consider Internet Explorer to be the browser dinosaur that just won't die. It's been the thorn in the side of all web designers and programmers for years.

"Okay, all done the site design. Lets check functionality...looks good on Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Netscape. Perfect!! Oh yeah, some people still use Internet Explorer - better check it out on ther....DOH!!!"

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MIT Media Lab's New Algorithmic Logo

Logo & Brand review

MIT Media Lab Identity, 2010 from readyletsgo on Vimeo.

MIT Media Lab hired Brooklyn-based designers E Roon Kang and Richard The to come up with the perfect visual identity. The resulting logo is genius at work, an algorithmic logo that generates a unique image for each of the Lab’s team members. The logo has three intersecting spotlights that can be organized in any of 40,000 shapes and 12 color combinations using a customized algorithm.

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Is This the New Google Chromium Logo?

Logo & Brand review

It appears that Google may be updating the the logo of its browser, according to a report from CNet's Steven Shankland. A change in the public source code repositories of Google's Chromium browser has seen this new logo, showing off different shades of blue, change from the 3D object into this two dimensional logo.

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Abercrombie & Fitch Sues Surf Style Over Logo

Industry News

The legal battle between Abercrombie & Fitch and Surf Style, centers on a flying seagull logo on Surf Style clothes that Abercrombie says is too similar to one used by its Hollister clothing chain, which has over 500 stores. Surf Style is a beachwear shop with 24 locations.

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