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This building is ACE

Took this shot during a photo mission around the Melbourne CBD over the weekend. There are so many great bits of old and forgoten signage and typography on buildings across Melbourne - must find the time to document more of it.

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10.10.10

via designweak.com Interesting project by Steve a Plan-B Studio. To celebrate 10 years in business he is going to donate 10 days a month to a different Non-Profit/NGO organisation each month. He’s offering to do anything from give up his creative expertise to working in the soup kitchen - will be following this one to [...]

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The future of magazines?

via creativereview.co.uk Creative review articulate some of the views on tablets and the future of magazines we’ve been discussing at Function/Form since the arrival of the iPhone and the future of tablet/touch devices. Posted via web from arcd

Announcements, FFBüro, studio

Happy Festive Season

Function/Form wishes you a great festive season
The studio will be closed till the 11th January 2009

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Google + Cloud = Better Monitoring of Global Deforestation

via feedproxy.google.com Great use of both Google Earth and the power of the cloud to map and monitor deforestation rates around the planet. Nice work Posted via web from arcd

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Great sustainable storage solutions from Housefish in the US

via housefish.com Really like the simplicity and overall design of this great modular storage system from Housefish in the US. Key is a new highly modular storage system that ships flat and assembles easily- the only tool you need is a hammer. The parts are cleverly joined into an exceptionally strong structure by machined [...]

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Bibliothèque & Dieter Rams at the British Museum

via creativereview.co.uk Wishing I was in London to see this exhibition both for Rams work but also the great exhibition design by Bibliothèque. http://designmuseum.org/exhibitions/2009/2009-dieter-rams Posted via web from arcd

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World leaders apologise from the future

via creativereview.co.uk Nice approach from the tcktcktck COP15 campaign Posted via web from BGreen-Now™

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So. London? - the johnson banks thought for the week

via johnsonbanks.co.uk Could this have gone anymore wrong. What does it tell us about the state of the creative vs client culture we work in when at the final presentation the client asks itself ‘why are we doing this?’. Posted via web from arcd

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thefuntheory.com

via thefuntheory.com nice simple concept by VW - great way to highlight they are a think outside of the box kind of brand, while producing some great viral activity. After a time, ‘Fun’ can no doubt turn to ‘Novelty’ and we all know ‘Novelty’ easily wears off, but I love the notion of causing [...]

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