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In anticipation of the beginning of Season 6 of AMC’s Mad Men (stream an Inside Look for free now), Shutterstock turned its designers loose on marking the delta from Mad Men to Modern Mad Men.​

From the post:

Our designers set their sights on the main Mad Men characters with that in mind, choosing an everyday symbol from their daily lives and transforming it through a 21-century lens. While most of these folks would be doing very similar work today, the tools they use to get it done would be quite different. (Just imagine what Peggy could accomplish with a MacBook at her disposal.) Read on to see what a difference a half-century can make.

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Nosigner has commercial products made from real eggshells.

Rebirth is a lighting product made from real egg shells.

Hatch is a planter made from real egg shells.

From Anastasia Mastrakouli project page:

“The photographic series NAKED SILHOUETTE ALPHABET is a latin alphabet art, formed by the naked body and performance of experimental textures that depict the silhouette. In this series the goal is to highlight the dialectical relationship between anatomy and visual arts. Each image displays the way in which the body turns into one illustrative and choreographic communication channel of a message. The body is cut off from its physical nature and is perceived as an imprint. The body shape becomes a letter through a deliberately abstract and other-worldly aesthetic.”

Design M. Willis needed something to do. He decided as an exercise to test his design chops and indulge his love of soccer. “Soccer Out of Context - a look at how other identities and brand properties would appear in the soccer / fútbol aesthetic, instead of their own. “

His Rules:

• I’m not reinventing club histories, or pretending clubs were soccer teams all along, just translating their brands to the soccer “universe”.
• I’m not changing logos, colors or visual properties - just trying to play within existing boundaries.
• Today I’m using soccer kits - jersey shirts only, really, as this was a quick exercise - as the visual output. One per team, too - no away designs this time.
• Where I can, I’m making guesses about the identities to fill in blank spots that don’t map easily over to soccer.
• I’m trying to have fun, and I don’t take this seriously as anything more than palate-cleansing design exercise.

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