Something’s Going On Down There

AUSTRALIAN RULES

Design studio There is based in Sydney, Australia, and proudly fly the flag for modernism down under. Check out some of their work on There Blog. We think There great mate …

From .Avi to .Zip and Everything In-between

A FILE NAME EXTENTION GUIDE

via Form’s blog

Daily Scrap: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly

AND THE WINNER IS

The symbol “&” is a ligature of the letters “et” which is Latin for “and.” The word ampersand is a conflation of the phrase “and per se and”, meaning “and [the symbol which] by itself [is] and.”

via Good Ampersand

via Shit Ampersand

Its letterform can be traced back to the first century A.D. and the Old Roman cursive, in which the letters E and T occasionally were written together to form a ligature.

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Complex Issues

TIM LEONG RETROSPECTIVE
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Tim Leong was the design director at Complex magazine for the past four years. He recently left the magazine to move to San Francisco and be the art director at Wired.

At Complex he developed a look that was fun, energetic, sexy, and diverse, reflecting the magazine’s hip, street attitude. Leong used a rapid-fire mix of cool photography, photo illustration, cartoony illustration, and high-powered graphic typography to create a very original and totally rocking design. Go here for a short retrospective collection of Leong’s Complex covers and feature spreads.

Grafik Magazine Visits NYC

PHOTO ESSAY BY DAN ROLFE JOHNSON

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In Focus

MANDARIN ORIENTAL HOTEL

In collaboration with Chandelier Creative, New York, Richard Smith & EMS Inc created a special limited edition ‘invite’ for the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Hong Kong. Read more …