Bill Drenttel rounds up the many excellent slideshows that the site has put together over its still young existence. A reminder of how very good Design Observer is.

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Really beautiful old school typographic designs. More on his blog.

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Cute, retro-style imagery for places that you can’t actually go to.

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“The best design movie of 2008 is not about a typeface. It’s about a tightrope walker… ‘Man on Wire’ shows how easy it is to have an idea, and how hard — and sometimes even miraculous — it is to see it realized.”

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“According to officials with the National Venture Capital Association, not a single technology initial public offering was made in the second quarter — the first time this happened since 1978… Now, it seems, no one thinks the public will bite on any tech offering, no matter how cool.”

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First foray into blogging from my favorite UK design magazine.

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Sparingly elegant graphic work from Jason Munn.

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For five months, the magazine indulged in “the new typography” by switching to Futura and doing away with all capital letters in headlines on columns and feature articles. Editor Frank Crownishield’s remarkably literate musings on the experiment are well worth a read.

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