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Marvel’s Comic Book Logos Break All the Design Rules, But That’s Part of Their Charm

My attraction to graphic design started with comic books covers. Like a lot of artistic comic nerds, my pre-teen friends and I would painstakingly redraw our favorite panels from Iron Man; while they drew characters and scenes, I was the guy drawing Iron Man’s shiny, machined logo—rivets and all. I was enamored by the lettering’s three-dimensional form, as if it...

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Se confirma la compra del Archivo Lafuente

El Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte ha anunciado la compra del Archivo Lafuente. Tras el visto bueno de La Junta de Calificación, Valoración y Exportación de Bienes del Patrimonio Histórico, el ministerio ha culminado un largo proceso de negociación que se remonta a 2014, cuando se anunció la apertura de una sede del Museo Reina Sofía en Santander, ciudad donde...

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Ever wonder what we miss out on by staring at screens?

Artists critiquing our increasingly screen-based existence is nothing new. The series of stock images showing a couple in bed, each turned from the other toward their phones, their faces lit only by the glow of whatever ‘content’ they’re fictively engrossed in, is now so well-worn that there’s a meme template for it. Where Italian photographer Cristiano Volk’s work stands out...

ArkDes exhibition explores Stockholm Design Lab’s everyday graphic design

The Smoothies, Museums and Airports exhibition, which showcases graphic design studio Stockholm Design Lab’s contribution to everyday design, from IKEA typefaces to airport wayfinding, has opened at architecture museum ArkDes. The exhibition about the Stockholm-based design studio, whose work includes the visual identity for the Nobel Prize and the redesigned Ericsson logo, focuses on how graphic design can become a...