Icon Buzz - Designs & Arts

The Ten Thousand Things blog has a fun rant up, admonishing some fellow designers for being cocky divas who need to take it down a peg. Though we’re certainly all not arrogant asses (at least not 100% of the time), I suspect that everyone knows at least one person this rant could apply to—especially if you’ve braved the New York art school trenches…

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Geoff McFetridge has designed Pottok: a new wallpaper collection featuring cool graphic treatments of trees, apples, flowers, whales (shown above), and more. Hint: click on designs once you hit the site.

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Don’t miss the video preview of French designer Marion Bataille’s alphabet pop-up book ABC3D, in which letterforms literally leap off the page. Starting with the lenticular cover, letters morph into one another and spring into states of depth, all within a crisp black, white and red palette. The book will be published this fall and is available to preorder from Amazon.

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