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Pop-Up Magazine Comes to New York City

Pop-Up Magazine, A Live Event, is coming to New York City on May 11, at 7.30pm at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts. Co-produced with ESPN the Magazine, it's going to be "stories, documentary films, interviews, photography, facts, and radio live on stage," and will feature a stellar array of writers, editors, filmmakers, and artists, including contributors to The New Yorker, This American Life, The New York Times Magazine, All Things Considered, Mother Jones, Studio 360 and much more. Produced by a non-profit group of journalists, they've put on four Pop-Up magazine events in San Francisco over the past couple years, all of which have sold out.

The events are not documented, so we don't have any photographs or images that we can show here. We did interview Pop-Up Magazine editor Douglas McGray to get a sense of what the event is all about and what you can expect to see and hear.

Tickets for Pop-Up Magazine, A Live Event will go on sale Thursday, April 28 at noon here.
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Hollands Diep: Art Director Jaap Biemans

Hollands Diep is the Vanity Fair of the Netherlands. Jaap Biemans has been the art director there since April 2009. The busy Biemans is also the art director of weekly magazine Intermediair, and produces the wonderfully obsessive magazine cover website Coverjunkie.com. Hollands Diep is published every two months, and features a mix of photographs picked up from American glossies, as well as the photography of some of the best Dutch talent. The distinctive logo was designed by Dutch designer Loes Koomen.

(Above): May 2010. Photograph by Mark Lidell.
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Star Wars Typographic Posters

The H-57 design studio, based in Milan, has created a set of Star Wars typographic posters. The portraits of Darth Vader, Yoda and a storm trooper are completely created with fonts. And best of all, the posters have a list of all the fonts and characters used, so you can make your own Star Wars faces at home!

(Above): Darth Vader. His mouth is a Rockwell Regular W.
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Reid Miles Blue Note LP Covers on Video

Check out this incredible video version of designer / typographer Reid Miles' Blue Note LP cover designs. It's an animated version of his LP covers, with some cool effects. A celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Blue Note label, it was directed by Bante, and is apparently some kind of Italian promotional item. It's an amazing tribute to Miles and three minutes of pure graphic design bliss. And for a complete collection of every Blue Note LP cover, visit this site here.