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After a long career as head of packaging design at Nestlé, Lars Wallentin knows the importance of efficient packaging communication. Wallentin has some interesting reflections on his Packagingsense.com blog – he even suggests that packaging lags five years behind the development of communication in general.

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The Grain Edit site focuses on classic design work from the 1950s until the 1970s. Check out its recent blog post following renovations at the Notting Hill Gate Tube station – an original Royal Blue Coach Services poster illustrated by Daphne Padden hasbeen discovered.

www.10principlesforgooddesign.info

Dieter Rams has created a simple site, giving ten principles for good design – and these are not dissimilar to the Ten Commandments. This includes the principles that good design should be unobtrusive, honest, aesthetic and ’as little design as possible’ – remember, less is more.

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If you haven’t already been caught up in the footballing fun of the Fifa World Cup in South Africa, why not get in on the action by checking out The New York Times site dedicated to the evolution of the World Cup football. If only we had the 1966 ball to play with this year.