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Seven Score and 10 Years Ago

The Gettysburg Address in words and pictures.

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Red Tractors

Red Tractors: 1958-2013 is new book by Lee Klancher from Octane Press.

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Letterforms + Birthdays 2014 Calendar

Rob Saunders, Curator of the Letterform Archive has designed a 2014 calendar with each month featuring a rare masterwork from the Letterform Archive, exquisitely reproduced in high fidelity and full color.

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Recent Books Received: 11.07.13

Five Conversations on Graphic Design and Creative Writing, Maura Frana, Leigh Mignogna, Liz Seibert; A Logo for London, David Lawrence; Logo Creed: The Mystery, Magic, and Method Behind Designing Great Logos, Bill Gardner and Catharine …

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Feeding Young Brains

AIGA Portland and The Right Brain Inititative have partnered on a new project to encourage kids to think creaively.

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Our New Store

Today we're launching our 10th anniversary celebration store, featuring items from Design Observer contributors.

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The Psychedelic and Grotesque Proto-GIFs of the 19th Century

Richard Balzer has spent the past five years curating an online collection of his phenakistoscopes, praxinoscopes, and zoetropes — "optic toys".

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Happy Halloween!

To celebrate the creepy and the spooky, a short list of films for your Halloween viewing pleasure.

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The Wire Poster Project

"The Wire Poster Project" consists of 60 typographic posters, each one representing one of the 60 different epigrams preceding every episodes of HBO’s critically acclaimed series, The Wire.

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Recent Books Received: 10.24.13

Design for Information by Isabel Meirelles; A Life In Books: The Rise and Fall of Bleu Mobley by Warren Lehrer; A History of Britain in Thirty-Six Postage Stamps by Chris West; The Generosity Network: New Transformational Tools for …

Observed|Exhibitions

The Way of Chopsticks

The Way of Chopsticks explores Song Dong and Yin Xiuzhen's memories of growing up in Communist China and juxtaposes those hardships with their bilingual 11-year-old daughter's very different, very contemporary upbringing.

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Possession

Someguy, also known as Brian Singer, is a San Francisco based fine artistand graphic designer. His most recent work — Possession — is a screen print on uncut dollars.