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A great student graduation project, well documented here: cinemetrics.fredericbrodbeck.de

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Signature is a book collection of patterns by Gond artists. The publisher notes, “Gond artists hail from Central India and work with an older tradition of drawing on walls and floors. Yet these artists mark their work as their own with carefully chosen patterns… each artist has invented his or her own distinct design, with particular meanings. This is their mark or ‘signature.’”

There are plenty of other examples of traditional Indian design on the same site, for examples old book covers here and here and folk art here and here.

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Good post explaining the design process of creating artwork for a DVD release of the classic sci-fi movie Solaris.

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Website of Wieden & Kennedy creative Hanif Kureshi, based in Delhi. There’s a great range of work from typography to illustration and some interesting student projects. His site dedicated to Indian hand-painted type is well worth a look too. He aims to create digital versions of traditional hand-painted typography. This article explains more.

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Designer Matt Roeser has been redesigning the covers of books he’s read as a self-initiated series.

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All these studios are noted for their print work:

SEA: www.seadesign.co.uk

Studio Myerscough: www.studiomyerscough.com

Build: wearebuild.com

Non Format: http://www.non-format.com

Browns: www.brownsdesign.com

NB: Studio: www.nbstudio.co.uk

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More info on the creation of the project here.

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An interesting experiment in what happens when you de-clutter the packaging of famous brands. The result is usually much nicer and just as distinctive as the existing version.

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A project to design 100 posters, one a day, for 100 days, taking no longer than a minute to design each one. The brief was set by Michael Beirut, a partner at Pentagram. The only restrictions were that all posters should be 12″x 18″. Everything else is left open. This particular set is by Zak Klauck, at the Yale school of art.

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Great work on the following sites: Laura Alejo, Keetra Dean Dixon, Gretchen Nash, Build, Proud Creative, Bibliotheque

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