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Obsessed with vintage

By Dhiren | Published: December 29, 2010
My favourite Christmas present this year. It’s a tin containing chocolate-covered, alcohol-soaked Morello cherries. I love the typefaces, colours and design used to decorate the tin. The photo is black and white, but the actual tin is lilac. I’m not sure why I’m so obsessed with vintage or vintage looking things. I’m not a hipster [...]
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Vintage Radios

By Dhiren | Published: March 31, 2009
These radios are just too kool for skool! Some people say I was born in the wrong decade—and that I should have been a child of the sixties. Things made before my time look so damn cool, I don’t think we’re half as cool as our parents were. via boingboing.
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3 Pretty cool examples of product design

By Dhiren | Published: December 27, 2008
What a hatchback! This Alpha Brera hands-down beats any of it’s equivalents in the market. Whilst people are oogling over the Audi A5, this older (2006) Alpha still beats it in the aesthetics dept. Arcoroc Pint Glasses, found these in the office. French made, such attention to detail and even the typeface used for the [...]
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Cool Soap

By Dhiren | Published: November 23, 2008
I’m really liking the Malin+Goetz product packaging. It’s been around for quite some time, however, I like the way the type descends, gets smaller (in size and weight) and fades in colour. I’ve been a bit cheeky and copied this style for a few powerpoint presentations. It’s quite a cool way of showing how drawn [...]
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