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August 2013

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August 31
- Font of the day: Bravo
August 30
- Project diary: music made visible
- DESIGN SPRING: 5 new inspiring illustrations
- Pentagram matches colours with moods
- Font of the day: RailHam
- London skyline recreated in chess pieces
August 29
- Art director harnesses CSS to create cool portfolio
- Font of the day: Sabado
- Design toys stripped back to basics
- Saatchi & Saatchi eye-up new TV campaign
August 28
- Font of the day: Maven Pro
- The Paint Drop: a masterclass in responsive design
- Super Graphic: a visual guide to the comic book universe
- Free typeface HelvetiCandy hits sweet spot
- Image of the week: Wonderland Type
- 5 illustrations to celebrate 50 years of 'I Have a Dream'
August 27
- 10 unofficial Yahoo logo redesigns
- 3D printed skateboard is a thing of beauty
- Children's book site is CSS marvel
- Back-to-school catalogue gets an arty makeover
- Font of the day: Bamq
- Vintage-style posters reinvent superheroes for another age
- Giant projection mapping lights up festival
August 26
- Album artwork of the week: Washed Out's Paracosm
- Ghostlab takes spirited approach to web testing
- Font of the day: Brassie Regular
August 25
- Old Spice website helps you get a new job
August 24
- 3D packaging gives vodka a backbone
August 23
- DESIGN SPRING: 5 new inspiring illustrations
- Asian-style branding for European accessories company
- Flash-based travel game packs a punch
- Animation tells the story of physics in four minutes
- Font of the day: Tomahawk
- World's biggest brands become Angry Birds
- App finds lost dogs through facial recognition
August 22
- Font of the day: 47
- Image of the week: A night at the museum
- Epic office mural depicts underwater wonderland
- Superheroes become slackers in impressionist paintings
- Books that inspired Tolkien get gorgeous new cover art
- Beautiful Google animation pays tribute to Debussy
August 21
- Star Trek navigraphic: the infographic with warp factor
- The bottle is dead: meet Water In A Box
- Font of the day: London
- Shocking paper dioramas highlight human rights abuses
- Aardman's surreal and twisted trailer for Pink Floyd on the BBC
- Lifelike faces created out of food
August 20
- Photo series captures cool and quirky residents of New York
- New logo for Air Asia Japan is a little Vanilla
- JavaScript used to great effect on design studio website
- Retro space shuttle posters are out of this world
- Font of the day: Matchup
- Designer illustrates a song-a-day with logos
August 19
- Superheroes stripped back to basics in cool vector designs
- Bold new branding for TV Peru summons spirit of the Incas
- Album artwork of the week: White Lies' Big TV
- Font of the day: Braxton by Evgeny Tkhorzhevsky
- Web app helps kids create their own Pop Art
- 12 FREE famous landmark icons
August 18
- Font of the day: Dense regular
August 17
- The secrets of Play-Doh revealed
August 16
- DESIGN SPRING: 5 new illustrations to inspire
- Stunning 3D renders bring Wacom website to life
- Cool geometric branding for cocktail-making kit
- Font of the day: Chrome light
- New tool Easel makes web design easier
- Movie stars reborn in corrugated cardboard
August 15
- Beautiful paper art branding for design expo
- Showcase: Dutch courage
- Fun illustrations poke fun at 'normal' New York
- The Moleskine that thinks it's a mini photo studio
- Bold typographic branding for dreamlike play
- New print mag focuses on the designer lifestyle
- Unique business card design helps actress stand out
- Font of the day: Higher
- Awe-inspiring data visualization conveys true scale of time
August 14
- Font of the day: Frontage
- Delicious branding for farmer co-operative
- University website makes inventive use of HTML5 video
- Optical illusion comic-style bag - is it 2D or 3D?
- What font is your beard?
- The astonishing world of visible Wi-Fi
August 13
- Chrome battles IE in Space Invaders for geeks
- Image of the week: Players
- Font of the day: Look Up
- Logo and branding inspired by the print process
- Helvetica typeface gets its own beer
- Photography series reveals the colour of candy
August 12
- Create presentations with this free HTML5 tool
- Cardboard chairs: the future of furniture
- Album artwork of the week: Bell X1's Chop Chop
- Gorgeous jazz-inspired branding for Sputnik
- Font of the day: Woodwarrior
- Movie mashup posters of themselves
- Whisky branding captures the spirit of Speyside
August 10
- Art for the masses: KESH's designs for American Apparel
August 9
- DESIGN SPRING: 5 brand new illustrations
- Interactive timeline reveals the story of the photo
- Portfolio site offers stream of quirky inspiration
- Font of the day: Nexa Slab
- Bringing papercraft to life
- Tea company brews up colourful packaging
- Designers resuscitate dying words with creative type
- Russian TV channel's explosive new identity
- Wacom reinvents the product website
August 8
- Bjork and David Attenborough's nature-inspired designs
- Famous landmarks shine in stunning time-lapse photography
- Tarot cards get a typography makeover
- Responsive site showcases Etsy's best menswear
- Font of the day: Magna
August 7
- Typography-laden tables showcase trending music
- Fistful of posters promote maestro of spaghetti Westerns
- Font of the day: Brandon Grotesque
- Will it 3D print? How to find out!
- The Rugrats reimagined as real-life grown ups
- Yahoo's first new 'daily' logo
August 6
- Emoticons you can drink from
- Pen and ink artist swaps his sketchbook for wood
- 40 years of Nike sneaker designs
- Abstract 3D animation for Absolut Vodka
- Font of the day: Phantom
- Superheroes and villains recreated with typography
- Slick site offers inside access to McLaren
- Digital photography enters the fourth dimension
August 5
- New logo and branding for MasterChef
- Album artwork of the week: Superhumanoids' Exhibitionists
- 10 of the best design projects on Kickstarter
- New design concept for Twitter: a better experience?
- Bad-taste bags put plastic carriers to shame
- Font of the day: Metro Nova
- Pictograms visualise pop's most iconic songs
- How to make Lego putty in your hands
August 4
- Andy Warhol packaging for Perrier
August 3
- Paper alphabet is an awe-inspiring fusion of colour
August 2
- Illustrated series showcases stars and their guitars
- New illustrations from our FREE app Design Spring
- Font of the day: Woodshop
- Famous landmarks stripped back to the extreme
- Urban survival kit aims to help kids in poverty
- 3D printing revolutionises Lego
August 1
- Make some noise with this interactive drum poster
- Bird-shaped shoe packaging flies onto German shelves
- Showcase: Kusi Kusi
- Font of the day: BoB
- Infographic captures 60 seconds of the entire internet
- Monopoly redesigned for the Google era
- 3D illustrations bring the glory of nature to life