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FFFFOUND!
by Molly McCall
Wed, November 07, 2007, 3:00 am PST

You can't get past FFFFOUND!'s masthead without knowing that exclamation points are welcome here. On the "about" page, we encountered not one but three statements punctuated with great enthusiasm: "Find, bookmark and share your favorite images!!" "An inspirational image-bookmarking experience!!" And our favorite: "Learn learn learn! And add!"

The exuberance begins to seem warranted once you return to the main gallery. Here, image-lovers have gathered a wildly diverse assembly of photos, typography, illustration, and graphic design. A  Surrealist clip-art collage leads to a vintage etching of a puffer fish, which flows into a woodprint-inspired text design and a classic black and white photo of boxers. In the collections built up by some of the site's heaviest users—some with nearly 2,000 entries to their account—more eclecticism pours forth. We felt like we had wandered into the private holdings of a collector who is passionate and just slightly, and adorably, mad.

And we loved it. FFFFOUND! You inspire us!!!

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Filed under: Photography, Art, Illustration, Graphic Design

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NHL Tournament of Logos
by Trystan L. Bass
Wed, September 26, 2007, 3:00 am PDT

So many sports sites are all about stats and rules. Base percentages, offsides, penalty shots, shootouts, championships won and lost, blah blah blah. Or it's boring old "my team's better than your's, no it's not, yes it is." Luckily, one web site stands head and hockey stick above the rest. The NHL Tournament of Logos focuses its energy on the jerseys and the fancy insignias upon them.

We're talking graphic design here, sports fans! Colors, stripes, lettering, giant As, and huge music notes. This hockey season, the league is moving to a more-fitted style of jersey called the "Rbk Edge," so jersey news abounds. But even without the "edge," this blog takes on history like the original Bruins and Maple Leafs logos. You'll also find wacky concept art for baggy uniforms that will never be. And every week, people vote in battle of the logos, which pitts one team's logo against another's or challenges old logos with new ones from within the same team. Now you can take that trash talk to a whole new designer level.

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Filed under: Sports, Blogs, Hockey, Graphic Design, Uniforms

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The Wong Kar-Wai Calendar Project
by Molly McCall
Sat, January 27, 2007, 3:00 am PST

Hong Kong director Wong Kar-Wai creates lush, lingering films that play obsessively with time: time lost, time regained, and—for those unseduced by the filmmaker's distinctive style—time that moves very, very slowly. So it's either perfect or ironic that a group of graphically oriented fans has paid homage to his work by creating a monthly calendar. In a wrinkle that the director himself would love, they've added a new constraint for each year the project has continued. In 2005, the monthly pages were inspired by each of Wong's movies. In 2006, the designs combined two different films. This year, the day-counting cinephiles added another director's images to the mix. Regardless of whether or not you watch Wong's stuff, you can still revel in these stylized, smudgy images and perhaps print one for a month's run.
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Filed under: Calendars, Directors, Graphic Design

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Covers
by Gordon Hurd
Fri, April 21, 2006, 3:00 am PDT

Putting covers on books has been an art form since, well, since before the printing press. But in our mad modern rush to keep up with the latest bestsellers, mysteries, and political rants, do we ever really stop to appreciate the package around the prose? Did you notice, for example, that the bird on the cover of "Field Guide to the North American Bird" is most definitely not a finch? Well, if you saw that one, you probably did. But if you flip for stellar design wrapping the pages of your favorite books, crack open this site. Lavish reproductions and insight into a good cover's needs make the site worth frequent visits for design fetishists and bookworms alike. And it offers an engaging glimpse into the makeup of what sits on the shelves today—from the dire to the delightful to the daring.
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Filed under: Literature, Books, Design, Graphic Design

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retroCRUSH: Polish Movie Posters
by Marty Gabel
Wed, April 05, 2006, 3:00 am PDT

Maybe movie posters aren't the most important marketing tool, but there's no denying their art. Now, the awesome folks at retroCRUSH bring us some of the most bizarre and twisted takes on film art you'll ever see -- movie posters, Polish style. What makes this collection so fascinating is how often the artwork is completely off the mark ("Revenge of the Pink Panther"), or totally and utterly surreal ("Back to the Future"). Yes, we know "Rosemary's Baby" is scary, but was it really this scary? What about that sweet-natured, innocent flop "Howard the Duck"? This poster proves it was way more sinister than it seemed. And who can forget "Saturday Night Fever"? One thing is for sure: After seeing John Travolta like this, you probably never will.
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Filed under: Movies, Posters, Graphic Design

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