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  • Endangered species thriving in the crash

    Spin-offs from the financial crisis proliferate. On Radio 4 Phill Jupitus' Strips provided the creators of the Telegraph's Alex cartoon with a platform. There were some interesting insights into the creative process and a side-swipe at the dearth of young people who can actually draw. ... Read more ...

    Published on 10/21/2008 in diaphania

  • Lampitt's living maps

    A worthwhile post on English Buildings drew my attention to Ronald Lampitt's illustrations in The map that came to life , a children's book first published by OUP in 1948. Elsewhere there's also a complete set of spreads and a page about Lampitt's map of an ideal city . The beautiful... Read more ...

    Published on 10/09/2008 in diaphania

  • Hogarthian virtues

    Hogarth would have been proud of these stills from a biting satire on China's political record. The People's Republic executes more of its citizens than any other nation, many for minor crimes such as tax evasion. A similar idea occurred to a French designer for a much slicker... Read more ...

    Published on 08/08/2008 in diaphania

  • Blankets and blazons

    Is it just me? I like old blanket labels. The design of some of these little scraps of silky cloth is fascinating. This 1950s blanket with its evocative label was brought by sea all the way from Australia over 40 years ago. Because she has a Physician chillproof blanket, the happy lady with... Read more ...

    Published on 06/01/2008 in diaphania

  • Waftaroms, indotherms and the graphic language...

    Don't know a grawlix from a plewd or an agitron from an indotherm ? Finding words for the marks made by cartoonists is a funny business. A jokey article about the marks cartoonists make for things like movement, emotion and radiation is now the stuff of earnest research into the ... Read more ...

    Published on 05/04/2008 in diaphania

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