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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

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On Decem­ber 10, 1948 the Gen­eral Assem­bly of the United Nations adopted and pro­claimed the Uni­ver­sal Dec­la­ra­tion of Human Rights the full text of which appears here. Fol­low­ing this his­toric act the Assem­bly called upon all Mem­ber coun­tries to pub­li­cize the text of the Dec­la­ra­tion and “to cause it to be dis­sem­i­nated, dis­played, read and expounded prin­ci­pally in schools and other edu­ca­tional insti­tu­tions, with­out dis­tinc­tion based on the polit­i­cal sta­tus of coun­tries or territories.”

Today, Wednes­day, Decem­ber 10, 2008 marks the 60th anniver­sary of the Assembly’s adap­ta­tion of those Rights.

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Typography of “LOVE” by Robert Indiana

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With all the cur­rent ini­tia­tives of get­ting peo­ple to go out and vote for this upcom­ing Novem­ber, I got an idea for another DIY project. Think­ing of inspi­ra­tion, I hap­pen to like how the “LOVE” sculp­ture by Robert Indi­ana stuck out. One of the tasks I needed to get me started with the project was to find the type used for it.

After a while, I found a post in the Typophile forums which for­tu­nately was the same sub­ject as my quest. From this, it seems that Claren­don Black is a good start­ing point. Though close, some tweak­ing will still have to be done by hand.

Any­ways, that’s one task down. I’m just hop­ing I can fin­ish the project weeks before Novem­ber. It’ll be a nice Design workout.

PS. Here’s a poster of Robert Indiana’s “LOVE” sculp­ture in NYC if you are dig­ging it for your digs:

Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far by Stefan Sagmeister

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I was inter­ested enough to check this out from a TED newslet­ter. Pretty inter­est­ing TED Talk by Ste­fan Sag­meis­ter.

Ste­fan Sag­meis­ter is no mere com­mer­cial gun for hire. Sure, he’s cre­ated eye-catching graph­ics for clients includ­ing the Rolling Stones and Lou Reed, but he pours his heart and soul into every piece of work. His design work is at once time­less and of the moment, and his painstak­ing atten­tion to the small­est details cre­ates work that offers some­thing new every time you look at it.

While a sense of humor invari­ably sur­faces in his designs, Sag­meis­ter is nonethe­less very seri­ous about his work; his inti­mate approach and sin­cere thought­ful­ness ele­vate his design. A gen­uine mav­er­ick, Sag­meis­ter achieved noto­ri­ety in the 1990s as the designer who self-harmed in the name of craft: He cre­ated a poster adver­tis­ing a speak­ing engage­ment by carv­ing the salient details onto his torso.

Some of the points he high­lighted in his TED talk were:

  • Help­ing other peo­ple helps me.
  • Hav­ing guts always works out for me.
  • Think­ing life will be bet­ter in the future is stu­pid. I have to live now.
  • Start­ing a char­ity is sur­pris­ingly easy.
  • Being not truth­ful works against me.
  • Every­thing I do always comes back to me.
  • Assum­ing is stifling.
  • Drugs feel great in the begin­ning and become a drag later on.
  • Over time I get used to every­thing and start tak­ing for granted.
  • Money does not make me happy.
  • Trav­el­ing alone is help­ful for a new per­spec­tive on life.
  • Keep­ing a diary sup­ports per­sonal development.
  • Try­ing to look good lim­its my life.
  • Mate­r­ial lux­u­ries are best enjoyed in small doses.
  • Wor­ry­ing solves nothing.
  • Com­plain­ing is silly. either act or forget.
  • Actu­ally doing the things I set out to do increases my over­all level of satisfaction.
  • Every­body thinks they are right.
  • Low expec­ta­tions are a good strategy.
  • What­ever I want to explore pro­fes­sion­ally, its best to try it out for myself first.
  • Every­body who is hon­est is interesting.

There’s also a com­mu­nity site ded­i­cated to Things I Have Learned In My Life in which you may con­tribute, share, and hear other people’s life lessons.

PS. Thanks to Marco de Jong for sum­ma­riz­ing them on the TED Talk page.

Blindess Movie Poster

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I’m dig­ging this poster design for the upcom­ing Julianne Moore movie, Blind­ness.

Blindess Movie Poster

I think the cre­atives have done a good job with it. Why? Well, here’s some­thing visual every­one can relate to vision-wise:

Check out the other poster designs for the movie by click­ing here.

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