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So the whole ordeal with the swine flu is finally decreasing, but that doesn’t mean it has officially been defeated.  Luckily for me, I didn’t catch the swine flue, instead, I got myself a regular flu, but on top of that I had a throat infection, which really made me out of commission for awhile.

Now back to reality, and actually turning on my computer to get in touch with the rest of the world.  After catching up to all (if not most) of my RSS feeds, I have a couple of website I want to touch on.  The first one being, FPO: For Print Only (site here), which is a Division of Underconsideration. This sub-site is whole heartedly dedicated to the development and production of printed materials, which ranges from items such as: books, business cards, posters, packaging and even annual reports. I am definitely bookmarking this site! This one is a keeper people!

You’ve gotta have a love for letterpress.  There’s a design firm called, Studio On Fire, located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where they focus on hybrid design and letterpress. Check out some of their awesome awesome work! (site)

We’ve all learned from the Periodic Table of Elements.  H is for Hydrogen,  C is for Carbon, O is for Oxygen.  Thanks to SquidSpot, we now have a Period Table of Typefaces. It’s pretty wicked how it’s all laid out.  I see one of my all time favourite typefaces in this table. DIN. Absolutely love it.  Nice to see a lot of the new Microsoft fonts are included. Officina is up there.

This table is a good reference to get a quick glance at fonts and it’s usage.  It’s definitely faster than font book.  The table covers most of the major fonts used today in commercial print and it also includes information about the family, the designer, the type of font it is, and even the year the typeface was designed.

I’m a bit tempted to print this out in a large format for the empty wall sitting behind me.

I’ve always loved looking at manifestos being recreated by designers.  Whether they’re taking the infamous Bruce Mau’s incomplete manifesto into their design, or expanding his ideas and taking it further.  Recently, I came across this new campaign that Calvin Klein is set to launch sometime next month.  It is called the “We Are One” campaign.  It almost resembles Obama’s “Yes We Can” campaign.

What’s so interesting about this campaign is that, Calvin Klein will be selling bottles of CK One + CK Be with a removable mp3 speaker.  The unique concept behind the speaker ties into the notion that music is a universal language. Just like LOVE. Love is the same in the entire universal.

Here’s a shot of the campaign. I’m really liking the “handwriting” font they used.

You can take a further look about teh campaign here: Selectism

Also, I thought this Calvin Klein idea is very similar to Lululemon’s designs, like this: