Paula does Belgrade.

Congratulations to Edward Fella, Ellen Lupton, Bruce Mau and George Olden, recipients of the AIGA Medal for 2007. To be celebrated at the Design Legends Gala to be held in September in New York City.

M.C. Escher meets the computin' age: OLE (Object Locative Environment) Coordinate System. (Trust me, it's much cooler than it sounds). If you are on a PC you may download the program here. [via]

Crop circle typography. [via]

DIY printable cold sores, to be used at your discretion. [via]

Way back in 1991 Rolling Stone asked a group of experts (MTV's Kurt Loder, GQ's Fred Woodard, Sony's John Berg) to select the Seventies' Greatest Album Covers.

From Gill Sans to Meta to Bodoni: Get your typeface t-shirts! Designed by Paul Nini, Professor and Coordinator of the Visual Communication Design program at Ohio State University.

Underdesign: The blog of Canadian designer (and firm principal) Frank Viva. I detect a unique sensibility not found in other design blogs. And hopefully, he continues adding to his "Favorite Projects".

494 clever of those vastly internet-trodden ads that acknowledge their context. Some old ones and some new ones. [via]

Caught on camera: The L.A. Times submits the longest — literally — entry for the 28th Best of Newspaper Design competition. [via]

Brooklyn-based design firm Hyperakt has recently opened Hypermarket, a modest store for independent designers to sell their creations. Stop by, if you find yourself in the lovely Carroll Gardens neighborhood.

A new kind of portraiture, especially appropriate for kids.

iPod and toilet paper hanging on a wall... Hot or Not?

Flight attendant uniforms from the days of yore. "Groovy" doesn't even begin to cover it. And, um, wow. [via]

Nothing like some HTML tag humor to start your weekend. Caution: Not funny to everyone. [via]

In case you missed it, the Vaseline ad everyone is watching.

Anyone that claims to be able to tell one Garamond apart from another Garamond is probably lying. The French blog, design et typo, looks at the differences between six Garamonds. [via]

Radical Living Papers, an exhibition of underground/radical/alternative papers curated by
Dan Donahue, Eva Prinz, and Thurston Moore.

Steve Heller's first podcast at Core 77: an interview with Frank Luca from the Wolfsonian Museum in Miami.

It is baby steps for The New York Times, as it opens itself online to user-generated videos.

Chip Kidd: Live, from Berlin! (Seriously, don't miss this).

Dear readers: we need your help. Five to six minutes of your help to be specific. We would very much like to know what you do, how you do it and how much or how little you read Quipsologies and the rest of the UnderConsideration sites by completing our 2007 Survey: It's not me, it's you. (The survey is running simultaneously on all UnderConsideration sites).

Diesel takes on global warming. (click on collection/advertising campaign) [via]

Design*Sponge has compiled the top letterpress studios in one spot. Go gagga and find your next printer.

Backing away from "Higher Standards".

Print ads appearing in Spanish magazine Clínica Rural, from the 50s, 60s and 70s. Groovilicious. [via]

Microsoft continues pushing Windows Vista in key places: With an animation playing at the American Airlines terminal at JFK, spannin g 230-feet on fourty 70-inch plasma screens; and as the preview for "next week's" Heroes on NBC.

Ideas on Ideas on the infamous ADC Final Call for Entries poster.

Awesome motion piece of typographic interpretation of one of the best scenes on film ever: What does Marcellus Wallace look like? by Jarrat Moody.

"The result of a five-year project conducted in 11 countries around the world": The new, complementary symbol to warn people about radiation. For a moment there, I thought I had woken up on April 1.

Legendary identity designer, Gene Grossman, joins CBX (Colemanbrandworx) as director of corporate identity.

A new merger-force to reckon.

Let the Britney-Spears-Shaving-Her-Hair-Off visual jokes begin: B for Baldetta and Ms. Crazy.

De Beers lack of placement in the movie Blood Diamonds earns it the "Brandcameo 2006 Award for Not Being Placed" in Brandchannel's 2006 Product Placement Awards.

My great aesthetic moment of 1987 passed as I sat in New York's Beacon Theater for the premiere of Wim Wenders' Der Himmel über Berlin / Wings of Desire. Two large mythological statues on either side of the stage and decaying architectural grandeur were the setting for an incredibly raw and impassioned film experience. As Wenders and Solveig Dommartin (both his girfriend and the actress who played the trapeeze artist) walked out on stage to introduce the film, they were two of the most gracefully stylish people I had ever seen. Both fashionably dressed, earthy, comfortable, and "oh, that hair."

Sadly, Dommartin passed away last month, too young, of a heart attack. The Media Funhouse pays tribute with a favorite scene from Wings of Desire.

Do you know how to use your chopsticks? [via]

Two days ago The New York Observer stepped out as a tabloid size paper, without losing its signature pink color. While I haven't seen an actual paper, I can already spot a few improvements.

Fun DIY cat toys by Marmalade. [via]

The Dutch celebrate design via recently released postage stamps, featuring among others the very popular Bugaboo stroller.

Unbeige has been informed about the end of the Looking Closer series, whose Volume 5 (and final book) will be out this month.

Saturday March 24. Florence Gould Auditorium, NY. Fashion and design will meet at Body/Language, with the participation of Isaac Mizrahi, Andy Spade, John C Jay, Etienne Mineur, Paul Boudens, Abbott Miller, Ruth Ansel, Yolanda Cuomo, Alexander Brebner and moderated by Debbie Millman.

Volkswagen pulls its jumper TV ad, after protests from suicide prevention groups.

Stephen Colbert gets his very own Americone Dream.

Are you a lady who likes her smokes? but finds the Camel's a bit on the male side? Fret no more, a new design just for you has been unveiled.

Monocle, the new European hybrid magazine — mixing "affairs, business, culture and design" — officially launched today and will be on newsstands March 15th. The design, of the web site at least, is impeccable.

"New York's hottest new wrapper"

Vice magazine has kicked off a new video site (still in BETA). VBS.tv begins with a short documentary about Iraq’s only heavy-metal band. [via]

Aparment Therapy compiles the top 10 rocking horses.

Marian Bantjes draws 150 unique hearts for her friends. And, yes, they are amazing.

Hmmm, someone didn't spell-check this morning: Hello Googe.
In case they fix it, here is the strawberry that replaced the "l". [Thanks to Audrey at our office for spotting it].

If joyously bright colors and lovable characters are not your cup of tea, then don't browse PingMag's Japanese Packaging Design#2: Snack Characters. [via]

All my Friends are Dead. [via]

Yet more excellent alternative methods of advertising: Urban (projected) skating.

A gallery of covers of the CIA's The World Factbook, published since 1984. They may have that intelligence thing mastered but, other than 1987, they need some design help. [via]

The winners of The Society of Typographic Arts' Archive '06 are now all displayed for your enjoyment. These are the latest entries into the magnificent Chicago Design Archive started by the STA.

New York, March 17: Candy magazine and Veer present SweetTalk NYC, a "mini-conference, minus the boring stuff."

An interview with Peter Saville. [via]

Now this is how you do guerrilla marketing: Wanted sign for the Zodiac killer. The same Zodiac killer about which a movie is coming out March 2nd, as it says on the wanted ad.

Some things in life should remain sequel-less, like the Rubik's cube: behold the Rubiks Revolution. [via]

This Valentine's express your love with an open heart replica made out of those annoying little hearts. [via]

The finalists of Design Within Reach's 2007 Champagne Chair Contest.

Winners of packaging design at the Grammys last night: Tool's 10,000 Days for single recording package and Red Hot Chili Peppers' Stadium Arcadium in the Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package category.

Pretty awesome typographic stop motion short using yarn. A little repetitive, but awesome nonetheless.

London, February 23: The One Friday conference features David Carson, René Knip and Daniel Eatock, among others.

Baby seats in Japanese ATMs. And if you find those convenient, you just might love this baby seat inside the toilet stall in a department store.

Stefan Bucher is on the home stretch of the 100 Daily Monster. With a few more to go, he is now on the hunt for a permanent abode in which to house them.

Storefront for Art and Architecture, 97 Kenmare Street, through February 24. Clip/Stamp/Fold: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196X-197X, an exhibit that explores 70 architectural magazines published in New York and elsewhere during the decade. [via]

The French New Wave “All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun.”—Jean-Luc Godard. Experience New Wave classics in sunny Charlotte, North Carolina at the Noda Film Festival from Feb. 25-27. Or if nothing else, check out some of the Noda showings through Netflix.

The Machine is Us/ing Us: A very well executed and engaging digital short about text, hypertext and the interwebs in general. [via]

This free web tool borderlines on genius. If you comp your web site designs to be shown inside a browser at a specific size, and your own title and have spent more time than necessary Photoshopping screen shots of your browser, you will appreciate it. [Thanks to Joe Marianek for the link]

The uncoated paper field becomes clearer: Neenah is set to aquire Fox River (which itself had acquired Gilbert recently). Last year Mohawk acquired Strathmore. Can French Paper survive? Will Monadnock strive? Stay tuned for more of the Uncoated Paper saga.

If you are into RSS feeds this is a pretty cool Yahoo initiative: "Pipes is a hosted service that lets you remix feeds and create new data mashups in a visual programming environment." [via]

One small step for man, one giant shoe for Japan: A nearly 5-foot-long shoe scultpure created by StrawberryFrog with Gary Baseman on behalf of japanese sneaker brand, Onitsuka Tiger. Video. Print ad.

Dead Sodas: A Tribute to Soft Drinks No Longer with Us. Some scary can designs in there — Surge anyone?

Besides being a fine-looking thumbnail gallery in itself, this page shows all the cars seen in Tintin. [major clusterlink via]

The Wurstminster Dog Show: "Artists were invited to reserve a dog breed on a first come, first served basis. the only requirement was that the artist attempt to capture the look and spirit of their chosen breed in their own unique way." With awesome entries like this Dachsund. [via]

Metropolis reviews the freshly minted The Pentagram Papers: A collection of 35 papers containing curious, entertaining, stimulating, provocative, and occasionally controversial points of view ... by, the partners of Pentagram Design book.

Have you ever wanted your own proprietary typeface? One that only you and no one else can use? Australia-based Letterbox will be auctioning exclusive international rights for one year for Bisque. Auction begins April 17 and ends April 27 (International Graphic Design Day) on eBay.

Call for Entries: If you have worked on music related projects in the past 10 years, fine design book publishers, Rockport, is looking for the best work to be published in 1,000 Music Graphics [PDF]. Book design by Clif Stoltze. [Thanks to Adam for the notice]

You know we love variations on a theme, so you can probably understand why I would be extra giddy to sit through these captivating videos of the Super Mario Bros. theme song played out in unexpected ways. [via]

Get your Alvin Lustig on: Limited edition silkscreen prints of some of the best graphic design history has to offer. [via]

Montréal, Québec, May 4-5, 2007: Logo Cities: A Symposium on Signage, Branding, and Lettering in Public Space. [via]

Photoshopped celebrity Manga: Vol 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.

How to make a Production Artist job opening sound somewhat enticing: "You are passionate, no, insane about details". The punchline is actually funny: "Application deadline: last week."

Pimp your Altoid tins. Sort of.

Coolest chair ever. At least coolest chair for the month of February.

Where, oh where shalt ye see all Superbowl ads in one place? Try YouTube and AdCritic.

Two links for your ballpoint pen enjoyment: Biro Art, drawings by NobbyNobody; and "These Bagels Are Gnarly", a ballpoint pen group drawing show [with online gallery] on view until February 18 at Cinders Gallery in Brooklyn, NY. [via]

IFG Ulm is at it again this year with Designing Politics - The Politics of Design 2007. Entry submission open until March 31, 2007.

Why this Sunday you are not going to a "Super Bowl Party" but a "Big Game Party" and why you are definitely not going to watch the Big Game on your church's 55" screen TV.

I'm a Mac, I'm a PC parody ads. [via]

Fifteen new book recommendations added at Speak Up, spot them with the Just Added red icon.

Creepiness and disgust aside, these are some interesting Nazi posters from 1933 to 1945. Maybe Aflac should look at this one, which translates to "Shame on you, chatterer! The enemy is listening. Silence is your duty."

Looks like Cahan is not the only one making videos. Duffy & Partners give us a long insight into their firm as well (click on "meet Duffy and partners").

Hand painted horror movie posters of India & Pakistan. [via]

Somewhat entertaining online toy: The Shredder. This is what happens to us. Try heavy-content sites like The New York Times for more fun. [via]

Creative Review interviews Robert Deodaat Emile Oxenaar (Ootje to friends), designer of "what many consider to be the most beautiful money in the world".

Now this is good information graphics: A diagram of possible combinations — and the resulting sums — of the seven deadly sins. For example: Gluttony + Pride = Fat Men in Speedos. [via]

Wow! These are pointy and cool: Pencil sculptures by Jennifer Maestre. [via]

Following up on Community Quip Vol. 1, No. 8: Pepsi's first batch of their rotating can strategy.

Fire up the time machine and get yourself to Disneyland circa late 50s with these ticket books.

Online Social Networks may be weird to some, but citypixel at least has the familiarity of Isomteric PixelClusters™. [via]

Thank you for reading and contributing. Remember: Quip Responsibly.
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BIG SECRET: This is where *ALL* weathermen go before their forecast.

Weather predictions for the week (click on your area to see info).

Severe weather predictions (storms and stuff) -- real time.

I get all the news I need from the weather report!

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Zune logo vs. Zink logo ?

Ever been in a weird situation?

Some have ...

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Check out MOMA's Destination Buenos Aires line. VERY nice stuff.

A stop motion project inspired by Kurt Schwitters.

?!?!?

Source: Design & Motion Graphique via Computerlove.

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Envelope Security Patterns on Flickr. [ via ].

Super cool bikes.

Check out the gallery. They have a "Ghostrider model."

Awesome!!!

Note to self: Buy clothes pins and a deck of cards.

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The Cat in the Hat is 50! Party in Seussville Thursday night!

Article.

Seuss fan site.

2004 stamp.

To steal from the master:

Dr. Seuss,
your life is done, sir.
Thank you for
a lot of fun, sir.

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Finding advanced mathematics in the mosaic tile patterns of Medieval Islamic buildings .

BREAKING NEWS: Traveling Exhibit Offers Up-Close Look at Award-Winning Book Designs.

I'm going to miss this one, but I called and they're sending me the exhibit catalog. Didn't know this was an annual event. Check your town for "show" dates.

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Wes Freed . Artist known for his work with Drive-By-Truckers' album art and posters. Site has Freed's various work plus t-shirts!

Slate explains how the camera adds ten pounds.

Thrills for termites and typographers: an article on a museum dedicated to WOOD TYPE.

Number 9

Katinka Matson's Flowers.

From Edge.

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There is a new "Brand It Yourself" post on MARBARGARBO.

According to GOOD magazine, The 51 Best* Magazines Ever.

*Smartest, Prettiest, Coolest, Funniest, Most Influential, Most Necessary, Most Important, Most Essential, etc.

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MARBARGARBO is a blog about all things related to design.
This site is so pretty, I'm so jealous. :)

From street to gallery, the pochoir artist arrives.

Slide show.

Kind of related video.

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He's Back.

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Radar creates a list of the ugliest awards statues . This is a design niche that seriously needs attention.

A new brand for Italy…

Italia

Architects at work, Banana Republic style ( via )

Esquire cover gallery.

And check out their new site makeover, too.

Article on AdAge.

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Blog about creativity and communications and the like, all interspersed with bits of inspiration: tiny gigantic

Everyone's favorite Wal-Mart of the design world, Logoworks, makes CNNMoney.com's list of 25 startups to watch .

Jazz & Art.

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A rare (mostly) English post on Slanted TypoBlog:

Acido Surtido.

Clic!

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BREAKING NEWS: Wrong Font Chosen For Gravestone.

Gasp!

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Logo - unlucky for some...

Brussels Airline Logo

Tree-Nation is planting a giant heart of 8 million trees in the sub-Saharan desert. Via Coudal again.

Manuale Typographicum by Hermann Zapf, beautifully organized specimens from 1954. Via Coudal.

Nine Inch Nails, in correlation with their new coming album, Year Zero, has released a creepy but fun puzzle campaign which involves leaking songs to the public via flash drives left in bathrooms. Songs are accompanied by ambient sounds which reveal clues and phone numbers to call when ran through a spectrograph.

It is all rather amazing... watch it unfold: Here

It's over now. But the Tin Tin! exhibit lives … on City of Sound.

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Simpson's Movie trailers.

From Pop Candy.

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The use and ‘misuse’ of a politically intended photograph within popular culture.

Alberto Korda's Che

at the Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam

avatars of flesh and blood in amsterdam

Has everyone seen this but me?

THANKS FOR SHARING!!!!

YOU'RE WELCOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Peter, Bjorn & John.

Good stuff!

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$3,600 for an ugly chair with duct tape on it? I'll pass.

$100 for a "voodoo" knife holder? ( Do they have a female version? Can I pay extra? )

Dan Ho helps rescue that ho-hum décor.

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This Week In Space.

Don't miss the "date" drop down menu.

Here's NASA's multimedia site, too.

To Infinity! And Beyond!

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Cartoon America: A Library of Congress Exhibition.

Laugh it up.

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Pontiac refreshes logo. Majority of car buffs approve.

More editorial cartoons.

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Editorial cartoonists: Cox & Forkum.

Very interesting.

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Oh my heck! I've never seen these before.

As seen on Coudal Partners.

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Going Dutch isn't such a bad thing because The Hague has a new logo

Have You Heard About B Flat?

I hadn't.

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New Money slide show.

Note to self: What does it take to get the "dream job?"

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I thought someone other than me would have noticed Link this already.

Didn't anyone else have to grovel and beg to join the "BetA" blog?

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Interesting site!

Artdaily.com.

And this is hidden in their "graphic gallery." It's been ther for about a year, though.

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Oragami, oragami, oragami!

And check this out!

From Kottke.

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YEAR OF THE PIG: THE GREATEST PORKERS IN POP CULTURE HISTORY

As seen on Pop Candy.

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As Armin pointed out: inept proofreader, or obscure literary reference? You be the judge.

for those who like blogging but don't care enough to put work into it... wordpress continues to lead the pack of blogging simplicity. i'm wasting a ton of time playing with it after i migrated from blogger this morning.

i don't mean to sound like i have something to sell, i just am enjoying it and want to share... some highlights:

friend surfer like facebook's home page, you enter a list of friends' blogs and it shows you everyone's updates on one page
statcounter i had a free account on statcounter.com for my old blog, and this function replaces everything i formerly had
feed stats tells you who has been reading your blog's RSS
some beautiful templates fully adjustable colors and images
free migration from blogger - imports posts, comments, media

[deep contented nerdy sigh]

Astounding, movie-quality Flash animation: Adam Phillips' Brackenwood.

BREAKING NEWS: Zoo Tours Cash in on Hot Monkey Love.

Happy St. Valentine's Day young lovers.

The best headline I've read all day.

History of the holiday.

Ha!

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Faces, Faces Everywhere.

Note to self: Save toast next time.

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Talking Shazam with Jeff Smith.

Mr. Smith's blog.

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Because there may come a time when this information will be quite useful: The Science of Godzilla.

Logo Design $149.00.

Step Right Up!

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A Conversation

A little fun conversation that we've may have all had with a friend who knows we're a designer.

How Do We See Red? Count the Ways.

Ready?

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Um, wow... panic in Boston over Mooninites campaign.

Art Info marks its 100th interview by offering all 100 from its archives. Via Veer.

Typographic awareness continues to go mainstream: five typography books reviewed (subscribers only, sorry) in the latest issue of The Atlantic Monthly . Still on the patronizing and dismissive side, though, particularly when discussing Eric Gill's extra-typographical activities.

When fine printing becomes too precious to read. (via Typophile)

Come On Baby Light My Fire.

From Beckstar's Unquenchable Republic of Disco Sparkle.

( *?!?!?* )

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Long Gone John's art collection (Robert Williams, Mark Ryden, Clayton Brothers) on display at Grand Central Art Center in Santa Ana, CA

International Herald Tribune: Sustainability in design moves onto the corporate agenda [ via ]

Web 2.0 company name generator.

From Porcupine Colors.

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BREAKING NEWS: ( Actually two days old. ) If Leonardo Had Made Toys.

And a video!

WowWee!

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Perhaps another Amanita Design ?

Sure looks similar.

Very Respectfully,

Two strange and beautiful puzzle games from Amanita Design : Samorost1 & Samorost2 . Think logically and click everywhere.

Time-lapsed photographs of old arcade games.

Brian Eno.

In his own words.

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p.s. Ha!

NOT REALLY BREAKING NEWS: Are Librarians Totally Obsolete?

From FREADOM.

Shhhhhhhhhhh!

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Dejando Huella 10: Design and Type Conferences and workshops in Querétaro, México. May 3, 4 & 5th. Speakers includes Rebecca Mendez, Mario Ezkenasi, Felipe Taborda, Alejandro Paul, Gabriel Martinez Meave and others.

The symbolical language of wine

BREAKING NEWS: Jeep Draws in Customers With Marvel Comics.

The Web site.

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How to make a Casebound Book, step by step .

Spell Ohio

"Across the world, students show off their “O-H-I-O” poses while studying at international universities, serving in the military, and performing service projects."

20/20 on Comic Sans and Paul Rand

For all you cheese voyeurs out there... cheddarvision . This must be the gourmand's version of watching paint dry.

Indie rockers put their own touches on the playboy bunny logo.

Remember Ghost Rider?

It's a movie now. Wow!

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Empire State Building Ranks Highest in Poll of America’s Favorite Architecture.

From the AIA.

Pronounced "AIA."

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" This video of the life inside a cell, made at Harvard, should win the Oscars. Bloody hell!"

From Social Fiction:: No Fratsen.

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Are Macs damaging the environment?

Bird and Moon
Especially check out the titular comic and the 55 word stories.

Make your Valentine’s day STEAMY!

A La White Castle's

Vend-i, vidi, vici!!!! (1993)

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BREAKING NEWS: Orbiting Junk, Once a Nuisance, Is Now a Threat

Brilliant Graphic!

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From Design Week:

Dynamo London!

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BREAKING NEWS: Art within books: Text, Image, Form.

Online gallery.

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Coveting the lovely wallpaper designs over at Ferm.

Targeting Jasper Johns.

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