ianbrooks:

Word as Image by Ji Lee

Says Lee about this project he started 20 years ago in a design class: “When we were children, letters were like fun toys. We played with them through our building blocks. We colored them in books. We danced and sang along with TV puppets while learning C was for ‘cookie.’ Soon, letters turned into words. Words turned into sentences. Sentences turned into thoughts. And along the way, we stopped playing with them and stopped marveling at A through Z. Anyone can create a word as image. It doesn’t require any design or drawing skills. All you need is a little creative thinking and to see words and letters in a different way. The dictionary is filled with thousands of fun visual puzzles just waiting to be solved”.

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Pop Up NYC

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Nike Lovers Town

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ewok-gia:

Born in Africa to French wildlife photographer parents, Tippi Degré had a most unusual childhood. The young girl grew up in the African desert and developed an uncommon bond with many untamed animals including a 28-year old African elephant named Abu, a leopard nicknamed J&B, lion cubs, giraffes, an Ostrich, a mongoose, crocodiles, a baby zebra, a cheetah, giant bullfrogs, and even a snake. Africa was her home for many years and Tippi became friends with the ferocious animals and tribespeople of Namibia. As a young child, the French girl said, “I don’t have friends here. Because I never see children. So the animals are my friends.”

I’m envious of this little girl.
Her world is amazing.

des360:

OTL AICHER (1922 - 1991)

Otl Aicher, also known as Otto Aicher (May 13, 1922 - September 1, 1991) was one of the leading German graphic designers of the 20th century.

Aicher may be best known for being the lead designer for the 1972 Munich Olympics. He created a new set of pictograms that paved the way for the ubiquitous stick figures currently used in public signs.

In 1953, in collaboration with Swiss designer Max Bill, Aicher established the Hochschule für Gestaltung (HfG) in Ulm, a design school for architects, product and graphic designers with “a diverse education, objectivity of design methodology, and an embrace of the industrial age” as ideals, as expressed by Aicher. Aside from teaching, and taking on the directorship position from Bill in 1962, Aicher developed numerous identity projects through the E5 (Entwicklungsgruppe 5), one of the “student development teams” created at HfG to work with clients outside of academia, melding practice and methodology — most famously, Aicher developed the complex and comprehensive corporate identity for Lufthansa during this time.

Further reading:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otl_Aicher
http://www.underconsideration.com/speakup/archives/004931.html
http://www.thinkingform.com/2011/05/13/thinking-olt-aicher-05-13-1922/
http://www.thinkingform.com/2012/05/13/7581/