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Of Interest (Design): 02.22.2010

+ Awesome "visual display of information": the ingredients of a Hot Pocket in typography. Limited edition print coming soon!

+ These handmade envelopes with Google Maps interiors are very cool, but would only be effective if recipients open carefully. (They probably use a lot of printer ink, too.)

+ Challenge: Design a cover for Nabokov's Lolita. The impressive, the inappropriately cliche, and the inexcusably ugly. (See entire set here.)

+ Popular web services (e.g., Twitter, Facebook, etc.) imagined as vintage Penguin paperbacks.

+ TV shows distilled down to minimalist design, in poster form.

+ Massive design swoon: Letterheady, a blog collecting vintage letterhead designs. Lawrence Welk! Albert Einstein!

+ Late Night with Conan O'Brien Bumpers (the graphics they show before and after commercials), a collection from the designer. Here's my favorite:

Salary Cat!

Snow, damn snow!

SYNDICATE PRODUCT 15 / COMING CLEAN!

Syndicate Product 15 /
COMING CLEAN!
32p / Digest / $3US

It is now available and it is AWESOME! (And I can finally relax!)

With Coming Clean, the Syndicate Product (nee Low Hug) "Life Maintenance Series" comes to an end. The series has spanned domesticity with zines about the laundry (Laundry Basket, 2002), grocery shopping (12 Items or Less, 2003), and cooking (Potluck!, 2004), so Coming Clean is a sensible conclusion.

Contributors include: KEN BAUSERT (The Ken Chronicles), STEPHEN BOJANOWSKI, DAVIDA GYPSY BREIER (Xerography Debt, Rigor Mortis), HEATHER BRYANT (American, Eh?), ANDREW COLTRIN (Look for Signage), VIOLET FOX, DELAINE DERRY GREEN (Not My Small Diary), AYUN HALLIDAY (East Village Inky), JULEIGH HOWARD HOBSON, ERIC LYDEN (Fish with Legs), JEN MCCLEARY, A.J. MICHEL, KRIS MININGER (Extranjero), CATHERINE PADUANI, PAISLEY THE CAT (Hey Pais), JASON PANKOKE (Micro-Film), ANDREW WALES (Eclectic Comics), JB WINTER (Izzy Challenge).

Order through the Syndicate Product Covert HQ Etsy Shop!

Take a look as some of the concepts referenced in the pages (click to embiggen)!