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Letterhead ain’t what it used to be

This building stood by the Hudson River on North Front Street, along the railroad tracks, just south of the Furgary Boat Club but was demolished in just the past few years. Dated 1913, the letterhead is from a private collection in Hudson (NY).

Railogos

These are awesome: 100 North American railroad logos, spanning more than 150 years.

Graphic Content

Via I Love Charts [h/t Federica Cocco]

Unsolicited Redesign: Ridley Scott

A new DVD jacket for the director’s cut of Blade Runner, starring Harrison Ford.

Unsolicited Redesign: Borges

A new cover for Labyrinths, the classic Jorge Luis Borges short story collection. [Background image: Mirror clock by Laetitia Hussain]

Paris vs. New York

Many more here.

Leonard Skynerd

LICKed

Hudson’s popular (ice-) creamery LICK naturally is open only in the (semi-) warm months. So this winter, their storefront is morphing into LOAF, a bakery. After hearing the news, artist/designer Ben Veronis, decided to take their business incubation idea to the next logical extreme...

There’s a second installment, coming soon...

Fontpath

Chart by Julian Hansen (who sells poster-sized versions). Click to enlarge, or check out his site.

Book design

A recently-completed project for the Burrill B. Crohn Research Foundation—the redesign of a new edition of my great-grandfather’s final book—can be read online at Issuu.com. “Baba,” as I knew him, is the namesake of Crohn’s Disease. (His memories of practicing medicine in the first half of the previous century are surprisingly lively and vivid, this wholly biased reader found—having not revisited the text in about 15 years before this redesign.)

Font designed by the Sun

Spotted in Hudson (NY).

It’s funny because it’s horribly true

Design hell.

See also:

Horrible logos.

Horrible e-commerce.

Nightmare clients.

More nightmare clients.

Common design mistakes.

Best and Worst Identities of 2009.

And: Make My Logo Bigger Cream.

Plus: Lunchbreath’s Killer Jellyfish of Graphic Design Favors.