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“There are few pieces that represent the typographic and design spirit that illuminated that moment of history, and certainly none on a scale as ambitious.” Milton Glaser.

Kemistry Gallery is celebrating the work of legendary designer Lou Dorfsman, art director for the CBS network.

The exhibition centres on his most notable creation, the 11 metre wide handmade wooden typographic wall that he named Gastrotypographicalassemblage. With custom type created by Herb Lubalin and Tom Carnase, the wall contains almost 1500 individual characters.

For more info:
kemistrygallery.co.uk/​

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Display is a curated collection of important modern, mid 20th century graphic design books, periodicals, advertisements and ephemera. Documenting, preserving and providing public access to these original materials will raise the profile of Graphic Design as a source of educational, historical and scholarly analysis for teachers, students, designers and independent researchers. From the rational to the experimental to the playful – our collection is varied and represents a distinct point of view about mid-century graphic design, typography and beyond.

Display is organized and designed by Kind Company, an independent web and print design office in Brooklyn, New York. Alongside client work, KindCo engages in self-initiated graphic design history projects. Their websites for the Alvin Lustig Archive and Helvetica and the New York City Subway System help generate inspiration and awareness about graphic design history, pioneers and artifacts. Partners – Greg D’Onofrio and Patricia Belen – are practicing designers, graphic design history enthusiasts, collectors and aspiring writers.

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Great archive collection of 53 Years of the Latvian magazine Juana Gaita.

(via Emily Forgot)

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Antonio Carusone from the excellent AisleOne keeps feeding us some great images of the 1976 Montreal Olympics identity designed by Georges Huel and Pierre-Yves Pelletier.

More images over at the Swiss Legacy Group on Flickr.

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© 2010 John Madere. All rights reserved.

Photographer John Madere presents here a short documentary about Massimo Vignelli. This is the first of a series of docs on designers. Looking forward to seeing the next ones.

Talking about Massimo Vignelli, today will be the Grand Opening of The Vignelli Center for Design Studies. The Vignelli Center for Design Studies is a place for design education, research and critical examination. The key concept in all areas of the Center’s work is the rigorous reflection of Modernism–the discourse of Modernism, which forms a bridge between the history of design and the Vignelli design tradition. The Center’s aims therefore are to conserve, research and extend this cultural heritage and, at the same time, investigate current design issues.

The Vignelli Center for Design Studies is an educational resource center at Rochester Institute of Technology.