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Former Wisconsinite and painter and designer extraordinaire, Cody Hudson is currently being profiled on Fecal Face.

When you are done there, take a look at the Struggle Inc site for more work.

Very interesting interview with Robert Deodaat Emile Oxenaar – or Ootje, as his friends call him. From 1966 until 1985, Ootje worked for the Nederlandsche Bank on a series of banknotes that many consider to be the most beautiful money in the world.  Check it out, the design and artwork on this currency is absolutely incredible…and some unbelievable quotes in there:

On the 1000 guilder note, it became a “sport” for me to put things in the notes that nobody wanted there! I was very proud to have my fingerprint in this note – and it’s my middle finger! It was too late when they found out and though the director saw it he said he wouldn’t stop the whole production.

How can you not like a guy named Ootje?

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Patterns is a series of professional observations about package design practices within specific categories prepared by the NYC agency R. BIRD.

I can’t get enough of stuff like this. Long live the internets.

Flashy new website for San Francisco’s Huf store launched this week.

Huf is owned by professional skateboarder Keith Hufnagel and offers a mix of sneaker, streetwear, and skate cultures wrapped up in a nice little package that is creative directed by Benny Gold of Stay Gold Creative.

Good stuff.

Some soul was kind enough to upload some hi-res photos of a found copy of the New York City Transit Authority Graphics Standards Manual from 1970. View the gridtastic document.

A video profile of Tinker Hatfield, Vice President of Design and Special Project at Nike and arguably the greatest sneaker designer of all-time (Air Jordans III - XV, Air Trainer, Safari). In the video Hatfield discusses his inspiration for for Nike’s 1987 Air Max sneaker, the first with a visible air bubble.

Another day, another memory of my high school art room. Speak Up links to this eleven page gallery of the work of designer Herb Lubalin. I discovered Herbert via a large stack of Avant Garde Magazine back issues i dug up from the supply closet, probably under a box of bulk-sized jars of Yellow Oxide acrylic paint. At the time, I knew I loved these strange periodicals a lot but had no idea I was looking at the work of one of the greats.

Read more about Lubalin.

I found this post about the resemblence between the industrial design of a 1960 speaker and the current iMac while browsing through the stuff I had missed on SVN the past couple weeks.

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From the frequently good Andrei Michael Herasimchuk at Design By Fire.

“…Please consider releasing eight to twelve core fonts into the public domain. The amount of revenue lost from a small core set of fonts surely can’t have a significant impact on Adobe’s bottom line. And the gesture of releasing such a set into the public domain would have many positive ripple effects for years to come…”

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