Step 1. Grow yourself a fine moustache …
Images via DLR and Mark Whybark.
Design
Every day for 100 days, Andrew Miller will paint one branded object white, removing all visual branding, reducing the object to its purest form.
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Type City, by New York artist Hong Seon Jang, is a sprawling seaport metalopolis with tall lead type buildings and boulevards bisecting the city into a topographic and typographic landscape.
Via Letterology.
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Via It’s Nice That.
In 1976 leading designer Dieter Rams sketched out some of his core beliefs in front of an audience in New York City. Concerning his work with Vitsoe, it’s an invaluable insight into the principles on which the work of one of the 20th Century’s leading design figures were based and is a must-read for creatives across any design discipline.
Massively ahead of its time and bursting with sound advice, the full transcript has just been released to mark Dieter’s 80th birthday later this month.
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A sneaky peak inside Bauhaus: Art as Life, at London’s Barbican Art Gallery, courtesy of Creative Review.
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The Volkswagen Kommandeurwagen was a 4×4 Beetle produced in Germany during the second world war, primarily designed for use by the Wehrmacht.
Read more about the history of the Kommandeurwagen here on Wikipedia in the Wartime Production section.
Via Silodrome.
