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18th July 2007

Dark and Fleshy: The Color of Top Grossing Movies

“I started to think that NC-17 movies perhaps shared a common visual string in their marketing materials — dark and provocative… I started with R and pulled up the top five movies’ posters. Less provocative but very dark. I moved on to PG-13’s five. Not provocative at all but dark nonetheless. PG’s five? Much friendlier but, yes, dark. It wasn’t until I got to the five Gs that I started seeing some bright colors in the movie posters.” (Thanks HOW Blog!)

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18th July 2007

Notepads based on the grids used in famous publications

“Grid-it notepads are a series of notepads based on the layout grids of famous publications: ‘By moving the grids from the backround to the foreground, and divorcing them from their content, we pay homage as well as render the invisible visible.’”

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