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A stunning new book surveys a century of French sign painting

If you’ve ever slowed to admire a fading shopfront or mentally traced the curve of a gilded serif, the latest publication from Letterform Archive Books, the imprint of the San Francisco museum and nonprofit education centre, might just be for you. Lettres Décoratives: A Century of French Sign Painters’ Alphabets is a handsomely produced, large-format survey of the letterforms that...

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Bond designs new identity for one of Finland’s most respected design schools

As part of a new brand strategy and identity design for the LAB Institute of Design and Fine Arts, known in Finland as Muotoiluinstituutti, Helsinki-based Bond created an identity built on the premise of reform and continual reshaping. The studio’s brief was to sharpen the institute’s positioning around a single idea: “Muotoillaanpa se toisin”, a Finnish phrase that carries a...

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Coach champions banned books in transportive new campaign

Literary censorship has become a hot button issue across the US. According to PEN America, there were 6,870 instances of books being pulled from school libraries during the 2024-2025 academic year. Nationwide, they have documented nearly 23,000 book bans in public schools since 2021. In most cases, the titles being targeted explore themes of race, sexuality or identity. Now… Source...