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rethinking the calendar

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

I love wall calendars, even if I stop flipping the months as of march. Recently, Ilya was rethinking the way that a calendar works on an events page, which led me to a big search for innovations in the calendar model. I found a bunch of interesting design ideas on organization of information, included below, [...]

DIY vinyl wall graphics

Monday, February 18th, 2008

When I saw these pictures of the vinyl wall graphics at the new supercool storeĀ GRANDĀ in Union Square, I decided that I needed to try it. But how to do it? I helped apply the vinyl address to our building’s front door, but somehow that seems a whole lot less complex than creating a wall sized [...]

Baking an Annual Report

Sunday, January 27th, 2008

The new annual report from the food comany Podravka… With the title Well Done and wrapped in foil… But wait! The book is empty!

Of course, there is a lot more! The text and images in Well Done are printed using a thermo-reactive ink; hence, the foil wrapping is a functional tool — the book needs [...]

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