Flying high with the first ever auction of Heathrow's iconic custom signage

This past Saturday a part of British heritage was auctioned. For what is believed the first auction of the contents of a large airport terminal, 100 bidders gathered at a hotel close to Heathrow Terminal 5 to bid online for the signage and other elements of the airport. Per The Independent “Britain's biggest airport was making money for old rope”. The article referred to lot 11 – a short length of...

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Botera is where typography and enology fuse into one craft

So, what do you get when typography and enology meet each other? Botera. “Enology and typography speak the language of finesse. Both of them understand time in the same way: the owner of qualities related with knowledge of tradition and new influences” notes Javi Montoya on his latest creative adventure in high spirits. Botera is a typographic project based on the environment of Valdepeñas (Ciudad Real, Spain) and its...

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Superunion’s “truth in data” branding for cryptocurrency crime specialist Elliptic

Launched in January 2018, Superunion was formed from five world-class businesses as an agency specifically designed to meet the diverse needs of clients today. “We unite Brand Union's strategic strength and global influence, The Partners' award-winning creative reputation, Lambie-Nairn's expertise in identity and motion graphics...

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The Irish signage is alive and kicking with Trevor Finnegan's Our Type project

Trevor Finnegan, the founder of Revert Design is on a mission. The graphic designer documents Ireland’s disappearing shopfronts and signage with his typographic project aptly titled “Our Type”.  Finnegan’s project started over seven years ago as a photographic archive of Ireland’s disappearing visual language. “I began to notice...

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Lubalin100: an ideal celebration of the designer's centennial birthday

This past March the iconic Herb Lubalin would have been 100 years old. To celebrate his centennial birthday Herb Lubalin Study Center launched Lubalin 100, a project directed by Annabel Brandon. The daily celebration featuring one work by the graphic design legend for each of the next 100 days has already garnered worldwide media attention. Per Alexander Tochilovsky, curator of the Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography at The Cooper Union...

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Stephen Hawking
Stephen William Hawking, the most known physicist of our times and an icon for all humanity passed away this Wednesday, the 14th of March 2018 at his home in Cambridge, England. Yet his cosmic brilliance is ours forever. Arguably the public face of scientific genius Hawking (born 8 January 1942) was a hero and as such he was brilliant, funny and of course an atheist. Per Associated Press “Hawking was the inheritor of Albert Einstein's mantle of the genius-as-celebrity”. Read more

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