“All Things Matter” article by Jessica Helfand
(discovered via Design Observer, poster for upcoming documentary, The Visual Language of Herbert Matter was designed by Cristiana Couceiro)

Grain edit’s review of Graphic Design Referenced
by Byrony Gomez-Palacio and Armin Vit

“Berlin Builds a New Wall to See How the Dominoes Fall: 20 Years After the Original Was Destroyed, A Styrofoam Version Is Readied for Toppling”

“…As dusk creeps across the German capital on Nov. 9, 20 years to the hour after East Germans first began hammering away at the original concrete Berlin Wall on their way to the West, the first section will be pushed over, and the rest will fall — like dominoes…” —Wall Street Journal

(photo credit: Almut Schoenfeld/The Wall Street Journal)

aboveandbeyond:

I was ecstatic to just discover the Life Magazine archive on Google Books. Currently, the available publications (in their entirety) span from the mid-1930s through the early 1970s. Also consider exploring the rarities of the Life Magazine Photo Archive if you get a chance…

(Thank you Katharine for bringing this to my attention!)

Know your type: Clarendon, a quick visual history (via idsgn)

“You need the Gill Sans ensemble” c. 1935, included in new Taschen book
Type - A Visual History of Typefaces and Graphic Styles (via pietschreuders on flickr)

a review of Armin Vit and Bryony Gomez-Palacio’s new book, Graphic Design, Referenced—plus a chance to win a copy by correctly answering fun graphic design trivia questions (via idsgn)

50 Years of Pantyhose
(discovered via Smithsonian Magazine)

“…On Monday, June 15, 2009, Iranian opposition demonstrators protest in support of defeated presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, in Tehran. Opposition supporters defied a ban to stage a mass rally in Tehran in protest at President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s landslide election win, as Iran faced a growing international backlash over the validity of the election and the subsequent crackdown on opposition protests…” (image credit: BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP/Getty Images)

Iran’s Disputed Election / The Big Picture (via Boston.com)

Transparency: The Largest Bankruptcies in History | GOOD, collaboration with Always with Honor

“…In the 1920s, the Deco boom peaked just before the bust, pitting decadent design against austere economics. Here’s a look at the casualties and the wounded: New York’s Machine Age monoliths literally cut short by the Great Depression…”

Urban Un-Planning | Form Follows Finance
(via NYTimes.com)