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The NZ-based studio, Experimenta, keeps Muller-Brockmann’s flag high up through their work. Beautiful layouts, clean and functional. Also be sure to check out the “critique” area on their site for some interesting articles on type. Last but not least, very nice idea to have the typefaces used in each work written under the images.

(via manystuff, thanks Alin)

Looks great in lowercase especially. More info on the YouWorkForThem site.

Later edit:
thanks to Eugen I realised it’s called Slabbath, smart pun on what I wanted to see, Sabbath :)

One of the most (still) respected european advertising festivals gets a new section: design. Packaging Design, Brand Identity and also Environmental Design to be more precise.

Wonder if they’ll find a way to subscribe some ghosts for this section as well :)) Nothing’s impossible, right? Nevertheless, it’s still a good thing that design gets a little more attention and maybe it’ll become a little bit more popular (compared to the “coolness” of advertising - everybody wants to make comercials, few want to design brand guidelines). And *just* maybe design will become a bit better known in Romania as well. It’s frustrating to say you’re a designer and have to explain that no, you’re not a fashion designer but something more serious and useful.

(thanks the creative cheaters)

New York City Transit Authority Graphics Standards Manual (1970) (photo set on Flickr - Swiss design proves to be unbeatable once again - wonder why the weird spacing though) contains some clear rules:

No littering - No spitting - No smoking.

I sure wish we had such plates every 100m in Romania.
Especially against spitting.

(via Subtraction)