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  • Dragon Drop

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    Gorgeous. Jamie Caliri’s 2D stop-motion ad for United Airlines. Missing my seat ‘phones, I saw the making of documentary on my way back from Vancouver yesterday and was instantly mesmerised by Caliri’s style…and kinda disappointed that it was just an ad, not a movie. Download the 6Mb Quicktime movie here…

  • Google 2.0

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    "What Google does not do well is apply design appropriately to its search engine interface. Other online application interfaces from Google are often done rather well, or at least not too badly. The search engine page, however, leaves a lot to be desired. Mind you, we’re talking about the most successful search tool on the…

  • Virgin Territory

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    Philippe Starck has been commissioned to design Virgin Galactic’s first spaceport in New Mexico as well as rebranding the company as it prepares for the world’s first commercial spaceflights. Find out more here and here.

  • ‘Pardon Our Dust’

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    Spike Jonze does The GAP…

  • Designers Galactic Republic

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    The European Space Agency recently commissioned The Designers Republic to create an ident for its Music2Titan project. Evidently, ESA-mission.heads were inspired by  tDR’s Wipeout team patches 😉 The Cassini-Huygens probe will carry a four-track CD to Saturn’s moon Titan ‘for intergalactic and himan audiences.’ iTunes users can listen to Music2Titan at their local store…

  • The Other DC…

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    …following Dubya’s rebranding of DC as the hotseat of neo-imperialism, the other DC – DC Comics – today relaunched its own brand by replacing its much loved 25-year old logo. As a long-standing fan of both DC and Vertigo, I’m not so hot for the new logo – there was something timeless and serious about…