A Flickr set of Men/Women restroom icons from around the world.

Saul Bass talks about his film titles. [Via Kottke]

Just when you think the previous witty alphabet can not be topped: An alphabet made out from letters on the backs of 18-wheelers. [Via SwissMiss]

Pentagram to Republicans: O, snap!

Flow chart of good and bad things to say during sex. Safe for work. [Via DesignNotes]

If you are in the Bay Area heed the call of Otl Aicher and pay a visit to this one-month-only exhibition, Spiele: Otl Aicher's Olympic Graphic Design. [Via Grain Edit]

Not sure if this will be as coveted as a misprinted postage stamp but this mis-apostrophed "Student's for McCain" pen can be your now for only $6.00.

If you are a Chicago-based designer, the burgeoning Chicago Design Archive run by the STA is now accepting entries for its fourth installment. If you are not a Chicago-based designer you can be part of the fun by seeing the the last edition's winning entries.

Get ready to scroll: The fabulous book cover work of Henry Sene Yee, complemented by alternate comps and commentary.

If moss isn't your thing, maybe roses? Very clever installation for De Beers diamonds. [Via DirectDaily]

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Mmmmm… Moss typography.

A small short on the World’s Largest Record Collection.

Your mission, if you choose to accept it: grab a gun and kill The Republik's old website!

Great set of spots encouraging single-language individuals to "try life in another language."

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"The Road to Success": Successory poster or message on the side of an 18-wheeler?

American Gothic, redux, and redux, and redux… and redux. [Via Dark Roasted Blend]

A house/office tour of the proprietor of the fabulous Grain Edit blog.

When your trusty Epson printer dies next, replace it with a printer than can print on the foam of your latte or cappuccino. [Via BuzzFeed]

Introducing the Federal Bureau of Illustration.

If OpenType is still confusing, here is a nice video demo designed by Volume in San Francisco for Adobe CS2, so it's a little old, but gets the point across.

Brazilians Anderson Augusto and Leonardo Delafuente decorate water gutters.

Nice, simple can design for the new Red Bull Cola. [Via BuzzFeed]

Think you can design a horizontal divider web graphic? Smashing Magazine dares you, proving that you can make a contest out of anything on the web.

Pretty rocking opening titles for the new Guy Ritchie film RockNRolla. [Via Motionographer]

A collection of Fanta bottle caps from around the world.

Next time you are in Sillicon Valley stop by the Progress Bar for a drink. [Via ffffound]

More artists for Obama, this one asks the tough question, "Who Killed Barack Obama?". Direct link to the image. [Via Artkrush]

"101 Classic Computer Ads." That's, like, ITC's complete type collection in use. [Via ISO50]

"...I failed to make them into songs." Following on No. 37's heels, Hillman Curtis created this video teaser for the Eno/Byrne record.

Pimp my Lamborghini… with a Sharpie? [Via Dark Roasted Blend]

Shellfish, "a typeface made with shells as a starting point for a non profit organization that raises funds to help the people affected by the oil spill that happened in the Galicia coast of Sapin in to 2002." Best viewed through the PDF. [Via I Love Typography]

Society In Decline Project: Intrastate Commerce, a fancy title for a great Flickr set showing old Americana signage. [Via Kottke]

Hard to describe this one… so I'll just go with cool and trippy hand-drawn video with nice sound effects that is worth watching. [Via Motionographer]

Died Young, Stayed Pretty, a movie about rock posters. Spot your favorite designers in the trailer, including Jeff Kleinsmith, Art Chantry, Jay Ryan and Aesthetic Apparatus.[Via HOW]

One of the only reasons I can possibly imagine for purchasing a CD in 2008: Sagmeister's Deluxe Package for the Eno/Byrne Everything That Happens Will Happen Today available for order starting today.

If you aren't yet saturated by the artists-for-Obama premise: The Manifest Hope Art Gallery, organized by Shepard Fairey and Upper Playground will be on view during the Democratic National Convention in Denver, and will "feature both known and new artists all supporting Barack Obama for President." [Via Gestalten]

Marvelous: The Writing Spoon, shaped like a fountain pen so that you can write with coffee, wine or chocolate. [Via TolleBlog]

No one quite knows what these 1967 matchbooks featuring Olympic sports icons are for, but we all do know that they rock.

A gathering of all things Louis Vuitton, from garbage bags to hand grenades.

So, if these were your only choices, would you prefer a ground-beef pair of Adidas sneakers or a Nike sneaker hamburger?

Dane Cook doesn't find the Photoshop work on his latest poster funny. In other news, people don't find Dane Cook funny.

Can't deal with chopsticks? Try the gorgeous Tukaani (Finnish for toucan) by Lincoln Kayiwa.

"The Great Cover Debate is a poll to find the [UK's] favourite magazine cover." Um, they are all terrible. End of debate. [Via MagCulture]

IDEO has a new web site. Comprehensive, to say the least. [Via Creativity]

R/GA of Superman film title fame opens a brand design division.

Wow, talk about a blast from the past… Misprinted Type, the beacon of "good" free grunge fonts from the late 1990s has a new design after many years. Good times. [Via Idea Fixa]

Here is a tough type test: "Can you guess the movie poster from just one letter?" Incredibly hard. I was only able to answer 23 out of 46, and from those I only got 17 correct. [Via SwissMiss]

Does the internet need another design blog? Yes, as long as it's well written, considered, organized and has awesome posts like a breakdown of airline logos.

If you are going to fill a magazine cover with a thousand cover lines might as well make it look cool: Esquire goes with handwriting. [Via Magtastic Blogsplosion]

A look at current movie posters in Belgium and The Netherlands. Scroll down to their version of George Clooney's Leatherheads, you would think you would be watching Casablanca.

A "mirror" made out of wood blocks. [Via Dark Roasted Blend]

The official opening titles of the Beijing 2008 Olympics, as issued by the Beijing Olympic Broadcasting.

If you enjoyed No. 14 below, you will probably like these amazingly detailed photographs of boomboxes. [Via johnsonbanks]

The Hand Drawn Map Association. [Via DesignNotes]

SVA MFA Design students got all Project Runway on social issues with Model Citizen.

A convoluted publicity stunt to announce the launch of a new car in London. [Via DirectDaily]

Postcode is the best free typeface based on a 1978 Dutch postage stamp. Ever. [Via Grain Edit]

Water bottles like you've never seen them, almost as objects of art in these beautiful photographs. [Via SwissMiss]

Feast on these posters, dating to 1948 and by designers all over the world, of Kieler Woche, the largest annual sailing regatta in the German town of Kiel.

Fun with Letraset. [Via TypeNeu]

Without any apparent selection criteria here are 100 book covers. [Via Design You Trust]

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Aug.06.2008

I ♥ logos with ♥s.

(For Mad Men fans) What Would Don Draper Do? [Via Kottke]

A long, but worthy read of making an honest replica of a Wim Crouwel poster.

You can buy Frank Lloyd Wright's Palmer House for $1.5 million or just enjoy the video tour.

Eye magazine gets blogging. [Via Design Observer]

The imaginative promotion of printed materials continues: To announce that their book, The Screen Printing Primer, is "dropping" in stores now, the Print Liberation group took their little book for a quick skydive. [Via VLU]

A ten-minute video about the evolution and branding importance of TV idents.

Imaginary Forces strikes again, with the beautiful opening titles for The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. [Via HOW]

The ultimate stop-motion animations: Three commercials made shot-by-shot using life-size sets and models of cars, houses and other stuff for RAC Insurance.

"Twenty-three-year-old Louis Deenan, undeniably the most detestable, loathsome individual ever to walk the earth, willfully decided Monday to devote his miserable life and all of its awful ambitions to the field of marketing," reports the Onion. [via Kottke]

Clever print ad "The Most Dangerous Species in the Mediterranean" including the condom, the trash bag and the cigarette butt.

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Visual Culture takes a critical look at some of Good 50x70's poster submissions.

Super smart:
No branding, no problem.

During our current energy crisis, hybrids are now receiving parking perks .

Mind bending logic used to create book cover graphics for Faber & Faber. Illustrative material provided by The Bantjes

ilovetypography has a new article written by two recent graduates from the Type and Media Masters program in The Hague. You can find the official Type and Media website here .

Lecture outlines from a Graphic Design History course. (Via TMN .)

Why do book cover designers prefer to design covers for 'critically marginal dead authors?'
Find out.

"The Conformist" reinterpreted in a series of 10 collages .

Interview with "Change Agent, Brand Catalyst + Hipster Dufus Wannabe" David Lemley. Read it here .

This is silly, but I laughed hard so I have to share. Paris Hilton hair extensions are bad enough, but the packaging is even worse.
Via Go Fug Yourself.

Our job is more than just drawing pictures all day. How Design Can Save Democracy.

useful: How to save printer toner (via SLATE)

Finally! A design blog completely by and for students showing the crazy world of design schools from all over the globe. The Graphic Student!

Those guys who travel around and correct grammar and spelling mistakes on public signs get busted .

I'm all for correct grammar, but don't mess with an historic, hand-painted sign. Tsk tsk.

from Christoph Niemann in the New York Times...
Abstract City: Bathroom Art
Fine art can be a refreshing, though problematic, source of design inspiration. (bathroom tiles as pixel art)

Lenticular printing done right. Awesome map solution.

A cool conversion table inspired by antique printers blocks from Crate and Barrel.

Maryland/DC regional grocery store chain Giant has launched a new logo .

Here's the old one .

New Wear Palettes edition at blog.wearpalettes.com .
We have partnered with fashion inspiration community LOOKBOOK.nu and will be updating palettes daily. The new version provides more interaction between the photos and the palettes, giving potential for new features in the future.

NewPage paper is giving away the Ed books online! Super cool books about printing/ design techniques: http://edliveshere.com/order/

Can you guess the movie from just one letter?
Empire Poster Quiz
It's front page on digg so the the site might be a little slow for a while.

A great resource for Presidential Campaign Commercials. It is a very fascinating look at the evolution of campaign advertising.

decontextualized video comments become modern pieces of poetry. www.thatwasepic.com

typographic promotional video vimeo.com/1529789

It's a great day... Banana Splits are returning to TV . Now, if they just bring back Puffa Puffa Rice my life will be complete

Weirdest, most beautiful flowers in the world.

If you need inspiration, the forms of these flowering beasts are incredible.

Not only can you customize your Keds - you can upload your own text and artwork too! Powered by Zazzle.

So you're a designer?
What kind?

Customer: "Hi, I'd like a cake please."

Supermarket Baker: "Ok. No problem. What would you like the decorator to put on the cake?"

Customer: "Olympic Rings."

Baker: "You got it ."

Died Young, Stayed Pretty - a movie about the underground world of rock posters.

Know a man that needs some help in the style department?

Send him over to the guys at Valet Magazine and whip him into shape.

Amazing screensaver. A typography-geek's dream!! And incredibly customizable. Enjoy!

Word Clock

Kittiwat Unarrom is a trained fine artist who switched to baking truly realistic putrefying human body parts.

C-3PO hanging out with some guy whose tie is on fire while an old lady rides a BMX up the palm tree to fight off a giant bee and a T-Rex!

One of my first collages .

This teaser for Disney's next atrocious looking talking dog movie Beverly Hills Chihuahua makes use of Shephard Fairey's all too ubiquitous aesthetic. And is that a Banksy in the background?

Oof.

Obama's logo vs. the city logo of Chandler, AZ.

Amazing examples of penmanship over at Iampeth from the Daniel T. Ames notbook.

Courtesy of Bricolage.

Fascinating Maps & Infographics

I thought the recently announced 2008 Rebrand winners were uninspiring.

Collection of hotel door hangers . [via grain edit ]

Lunch art from Flickr.

Very extensive collection of car logo evolutions

Information Architect Sean Tevis for Kansas State Representative!

You gotta' love destination branding!

It's rare to find a respectable online design community offering a chance to redesign their logo. Type Battle 27 from Typophile.

remember Wacky packages ?

Taking up the call to citizen diplomacy—via graphic design—Daniel R Smith is linking the visual cultures of two cities with The Seattle-Tehran Poster Show . None of the Iranian work has exhibited in the United States.

Why did I purposely shrink that t-shirt my Mom gave me with the kanji on it? Internet translators suck. Sorry Mom.

Obscure musical instruments. For all you obsessive random facts collectors who happen to be designers...

Hipster: The Dead End of Civilization.
The hipster represents the end of Western civilization – a culture lost in the superficiality of its past and unable to create any new meaning.
Thanks to Christopher Wade Sherron

Today is Totally Awesome!

Time line of Black Flag's TV Party .

Only "Saturday Night Live" is left. :(

A museum of toasters. toastermuseum.com

Stickmen Olympics. (don't forget the Handicap Stickmen .

what would garfield look like, without garfield ? original creator Jim Davis says "Bloggers such as Walsh see the futility in making everything turn out right every day. But a little darkness makes the positives even sweeter."

Evolution of the Olympic Torch . A must see from the NYTimes

Journal of Urban Typography

We have seen the MADrid logo , but your haven't seen anger until you have checked out these other spanish logos . [via Coudal ]

Contentment: now in a can!

Designers up in arms! The Aquent spec work snafu:
Denver Egotist Editorial
Aquent's Apology

The Summer Olympics Medal Count map.

A photo showcase of typeface FF Meta in your everyday life . Take a look around you... Did you have your Meta today?

Apparently I've been living under a rock. How did I not know there was a Graphic Design Forum ? (slapping forehead...)

Really cool signage system:

http://de-war.de/eurekacarpark.html

Safety Slogan Signs. They can be customized too!!!

The Tournament of Hockey Logos Since I am a die-hard Blackhawks fan and born and raised in Chicago... you can guess my vote.

August desktop is here. Is summer really almost over? :(

Because bubble gum, chick lit book cover designs sell. Via Jezebel.

I'm sure most designers would have liked the chance to find a portal to the brain of Tibor Kalman rather than John Malkovich. Additionally I'd have no problem working with this kind of freedom for food.

M&Co delectable adverts for Restaurant Florent

Maybe old hat to some.

Book Covers!

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