Saatchi & Saatchi to develop the next I [heart] NY campaign. Which has been around for 30 years, thank you very much.

Winners of the mighty-fine :output awards announced and posted.

Mr. T + Cabbage Patch Kids = I Pity the Dolls!

Human joysticks, with the help of a motion sensor, play msnbc.com’s NewsBreaker before the premiere of Spiderman 3. NewsBreaker is an extension of msnbc.com’s new identity, designed by SS+K.

New Yorker cartoons animated for your giggling/head scratching pleasure. [Via Drawn]

Saw this real estate ad yesterday in the subway and also wondered if it could get any stupider. You don’t need to live in New York to get it. Dumb is international. [Via Gothamist]

Lee Freedman thinks his 1972 design for a color-instead-of-letter alphabet is finally ready for prime time. Usable? Definitely beautiful. Get out your decoder rings.

Explore a history of animation from June 10 to June 13 at the NODA Film Festival in North Carolina! It’s crazy, fast paced, and over the top, full of recognizable loonies and some new ones too.

Paparazzi + Tabloids + Garbage Pail Kids = Hollywood Zombies trading cards ! More here. [Thanks to JK for the link]

[Ed.’s Note: Wrong URL in previous edition, apologies]
How far we’ve fallen! Remember when books were burned in order to keep people from reading them? Not because they were not reading them?

Pie charting the world’s flags, according to color. Make sure you go to the bottom for a all the flags combined. [Via Digg]

Design Made In Africa is open until June 24th at 4 World Financial Center in NYC.

Gee, reading on the subway sure takes so much effort. Next time, convert that .DOC or .PDF to speech and pretend you’re listening to some exclusive iTunes tracks. Don’t forget to pinch your forefinger and thumb together, as if hold and guitar pick strumming the imaginary strings near your thigh. Sigh.

The first computer animation (1974!), and other interesting debates. [Via Digg]

If you like graffiti on soon to be demolished buildings you will enjoy the 337 Project in Utah. Flickr set here. [Via Digg]

Not visually exciting, but if you have ever wondered what typeface some of the major corporations use, this is the list for you. Is anyone as troubled as I am to see Rotis there ten times? [Via UnBeige]

How far we’ve fallen! Remember when books were burned in order to keep people from reading them? Not because they were not reading them?

Top ten things you don’t want to “mean” in an interview.

Wonky navigation, but potentially great site, newcreatives.com, is a database of young talent and their work. Like this brand alphabet… True, not the first but, hey, it’s distressed.

AIGA’s Design Business and Ethics guides (booklets designed by Grant Design Collaborative and originally available only to members) now updated and available as PDFs.

Ruth Marten, one of the most talented artist/illustrators around, has just launched a new website which features altered 18th-century engravings. Go now.

An unintentional master of experience design: Richard Serra gets a retrospective at MoMA.

Talented Muslim calligrapher dies. Khalil al-Zahawi was renowned for writing and teaching classical Arabic script.

Inside the Threadless offices. It looks, um, spacious. [Via Abduzeedo]

Logged on to nytimes.com this morning. Read top headline, “Suit Reveals Clintons’ Ties to a Benefactor”. Saw picture. First thought: “Yes, that is an ill fitting suit, the belt is too high also, clearly it reveals many things”. Read description. “Ah, I see”. This is either a case of my mind being on design all the time, or that coffee had not yet kicked in.

Ugh. Most invasive movie promotion ever. Pay more than its worth for it on eBay. [Via Gothamist]

Most nostalgic Quip ever: The Museum of Forgotten Art Supplies. [Via Drawn]

Protective blueprint tube manufactures must be shuddering in fear: AIA is one step closer to a digital future. Finally.

Darth Vader(’s helmet) gets the multi-artist treatment. Plus more, at Creative Review.

Bruce Mau moving to Chicago. In your face Toronto! [Via UnBeige]

I was going to post about this yesterday and reconsidered its relevance. But the story just got juicier with heads rolling.

Motion graphics have sure come a long way: Retro weather report animations. Nice type. [Via Boing Boing]

Better not lose this umbrella. Besides shielding you from the rain it logs on to the intertubes and Google Earth and it takes pictures and it uploads them to Flickr and is only short of doing your job for you. [Via BuzzFeed]

Friends With You have a fanciful new site.

Random Google Search #1, Banana + Art: The Tattooed Banana / Some cool Russian page / 30,000 Bananas in Trafalgar Square / 20,000 in Brooklyn (with pic) / And one modern rendition with a soft banana pool

Clever: Arranging book spines to make simple thoughts and observations, Sorted Books. [Via NOTCOT]

UK entertainment magazine, Empire, is celebrating 30 years of Star Wars with 30 different covers. All neatly organized here by category. More at Creative Review.

Toast is the new print. Movie. In reality at ICFF. [Via Drawn]

When your only alternative is to tell the truth…

Complete Logo Design Guide: More logo-related links than you can shake your logo at.

Caught on camera (one that happens to have a Quaketronics flash controller — yes, I have no idea what that is either): Popping balloons. [Via Fabrica]

Subway systems with their own custom fonts, as opposed to that other ubiquitous typeface. [Via Typophile]

First the Euro symbol, now… The Ruble! [Via Typophile]

They are all around us: Passive-aggressive notes from roommates, neighbors, coworkers and strangers. I love when people underline, bold and otherwise call to attention things in handwritten ways. Or in Comic Sans. [Via Boing Boing]

Nice animation on the subject of typography (a little 101ish, but sweet motion). [Via l’entonnoir]

Today, May 22, is what Sun Ra’s fans call “Arrival Day,” i.e. the anniversary of his arrival on planet Earth. To celebrate, a webpage of his early years with long-obscure newspaper clippings, photographs, and record labels and sleeves just went up on Robert Campbell’s (author of The Earthly Recordings of Sun Ra) site. Space is the place!

Online exhibit: The Art of War. [Via Drawn]

More clock-themed Quipping: Should graphic designers be designing clocks? AIGA’s DC chapter asked some to design some. [Via Unbeige]

We reported on the Clocky alarm clock back in March, so I feel it’s our Quipping duty to bring to your attention more hellish mediums of waking up: BuzzFeed’s Mean Alarm Clocks.

Visualizing the effects of smoking. Fashionably. [Via elektro^plankton]

Screen Printing 101: Handy how-to video. LED lights optional. [Via Tcritic]

Italian company Momaboma recycles many things into cool things, like discarded homework assignments into bags. [Via NOTCOT]

More Strange Maps. This one deserves its own Quip: Kim Dingle, United Shapes of America (Maps Drawn by Las Vegas Teenagers), 1991.

Wonderful newly discovered blog: Strange Maps. With gems like “If Planets Were Countries…”, “Real Maps Reassembled Into Non-Existent Places”, and “A Cartogram of the World’s Population”. And these are only from the landing page.

The Type Texturizer: “[An] application that renders image as type, developed for a concept of interactive tag clouds that take the shape of content.” [Via Digg]

Mohawk Fine Papers, fine purveyors of fine paper (including that of our latest Stop Being Sheep), continue playing nice with the environment by making their Strathmore, Beckett Expression and Beckett Concept carbon neutral!

“I apply dog food to form words from different world religious scriptures. I videotape the process of the dog eating words and play backward. This gives a sense that this white dog is releasing religious teachings.” [Via Fabrica]

Reason 172 why I love worth1000.com: Photoshopping Leet Speak unto the everyday. [Via Boing Boing]

Mountain Dew launches Green Label Art, a limited edition collection of 12 aluminum cans with art by cool people. If you can’t handle the Flash in the official web site, I recommend this video. Mountain Dew which is owned by Pepsi, surely realizes that Coca-Cola beat them to the hipster punch eons ago with their M5 aluminum cans. More pictures of those here.

This looks like a promising way to spend a few minutes — and even as an alternative to our Word It. This Day in Type invites you to create artwork based on any day’s date. [Via Typophile]

If you’re a sucker for context sensitivity in your interactivity-inputivity, you’ll probably want to jump on the pre-sales for one of the first 200 Optimus Maximus keyboards.

Good shit: find the nearest (and cleanest) public restrooms near you.

Winners of the 2007 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards.

View these happy motoring images, it may be the closest you get to experiencing gas below $1/gallon.

Nice wall decor.

Coca-Cola Old Ads. Wait… Coca-Cola Cigars?! [Via Digg]

Mommy’s Chair: “Inspired by children’s 2-dimensional drawing, this quirky, unusual series is made of bent steel rods. The seat colour remains matt white resembling the paper drawn on.” [Via Boing Boing]

It seems to be Business Card Month here at the Qs… If you have a cool business card, the nice folks at HOW are gathering the coolest for an upcoming issue.

Helvetica = Good Business. With images to prove it. [Via Design Observer]

Very large Flickr set of business cards. Including a vintage Speak Up card. [Thanks to Megan Patrick]

The Australian-based design journal Open Manifesto has released issue 3.

Holy branding, Batman. The Batman Begins followup—the Dark Knight—has a new crest appearing here.

Olfactory design! A Time photoessay on how scents are made.

Contribute your own interpretation of the MTV logo to MTV HATS. [Via NOTCOT]

“Why choose a particular typeface?” Michael Bierut gives you 13 reasons.

Don’t anger the winners of the Guild Wars’ 2007 Design-A-Weapon Contest. [Via Digg]

Two items on patents: 1) In print, It’s a Guy Thing: Awesome Innovations From the Underdeveloped Male Mind and 2) On screen, Patently Silly, selections from the U.S. Patent Office.

Stupidest product name ever to re-enter the market with an even stupider name. [Via NameWire]

Change your identity. You’ve got 100 points to spend.

Sticking with the robot theme… A notch down on the technological scale, but still fascinating: Animal robots. [Via Digg]

Please excuse my geekiness, but… Detailed shots of Transformers! [Via Best Week Ever]

Charting the history of the T-shirt. You know it’s good because it’s set in Copperplate Gothic with drop shadows. [Via Tcritic]

What does Prince’s scent look like? Like a “Kaleidoscope of Rich Florals.” Took the words right out of my mouth. [Via BuzzFeed]

Tap that… water. The Tap Project. Lovely bottle design. [Via NOTCOT]

More! Would be the only city in America to have an exclamation point. Abbott Miller and writer Lalita Noronha rethink the city of Baltimore’s identity. The official identity, if you are interested, here. [Via Pentagram]

2008 Presidential Brand Study. [Via NameWire]

Anatomy and other innards of the balloon dog. [Via NOTCOT]

Cuban poster collection, 1960-2000 at UC Berkeley. Check out this type treatment.

Pimped out business cards. [Via Digg]

Get yer t-shirt of the year! NDA! [Via Tcritic]

You can’t judge a stack of books by their spines. But you can see what people plan to read. Flickr set, Reading Stack. [Via Boing Boing]

Want to study under the likes of Michael Bierut, Steve Heller, Kurt Andersen and Paola Antonelli? Then get yourself to SVA’s newly minted Master of Fine Arts in Design Criticism — the first of its kind — headed by the delightful Alice Twemlow.

The (d)evloution of Esquire covers through the ages in a single GIF. [Via magCulture]

Make, um, them bigger.

Find the best graphic design blooper and win an Amazon gift card. Let’s hope they get something other than that bad logo.

In need of something touchy-feely? Get all sorts of super-materials in your mailbox with Materials Monthly.

Genius smalltown retail: underselling Wal Mart with bulk goods purchased from Sam’s Club. [via Kottke]

Slightly oversized t-shirt vending machine. How do you shake it, though, if your t-shirt doesn’t fall all the way?

The Font Clock. It’s a clock. With tons of fonts. By Sebastian Wrong. [Via NOTCOT]

Target goes pink for the girls.

“Challenge: Create awareness to the fact that a large number of mortal victims resulting from car accidents are not inside a car.” A zebra crossing memorial. [Via NOTCOT]

How long before The Man steals these young minds’ creativity: Kid Cartoonists. [Via Drawn]

Using Our Language: Scans of grammar books circa 1940, with wonderful and witty illustrations on laguage for grade 8 grammar. [Via Drawn]

A little bit of a stretch for a design blog, but interesting for the always curious: Photo excerpts from a fantastic-sounding book, An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar. [Via Boing Boing]

Command X: “At this year’s AIGA Design Conference, one yet-to-be-discovered designer will rise above the rest. Could it be you? Through a series of design problems, solved during the conference and presented on the main stage, a panel of esteemed judges will edit a group of select young designers down to one winner—in front of 2,500 of your peers, heroes and potential bosses. The winner might just be the next great designer. (And also get $1,000 in unmarked bills and other fabulous prizes!).”

The Condiment Packet Museum. ‘Nough said. [Via Kottke]

14! The Major League Baseball record for most letters on a jersey. [Via Uni Watch]

Something I learned today: Merle Armitage, Iowa-born American Book Designer. [Thanks to Roy Behrens for the link]

Picked from our Delta Air Lines rebranding post on Brand New: Delta’s logo history, 19 logos in 78 years.

2007 National Magazine Award winners and finalists. While our design rags represented, none took any bling home.

A little too many concepts in one product, but awesome advertising-inspired cupboard. [Via NOTCOT]

The Tootsie Pop owl and innocent kid get a 3D makeover. [Via Boing Boing]

One of the great web originals, The Grocery List Collection, gets its own book, Milk Eggs Vodka: Grocery Lists Lost and Found, courtesy of the fine folks at HOW Books.

Map of Online Communites and Related Points of Interest (like the Sea of Memes and Bay of Angst). [Via NOTCOT]

The WNBA’s new clothes. (Click on the article’s links).

It’s blue. It’s a circle. It’s cement. No need to spell it out.

These soda bottles have been making the rounds in this season’s design annuals. And deservingly so.

More on the new U.S. passport. Including this, “It is like being given a coloring book that your brother already colored in,” from Michael Bierut.

Voting for the design*sponge scholarship is up. Big ‘ol hugs for everyone that votes for my friend Rebecca Pollack. Seriously, who wouldn’t want that cute coffe cup with gritty texture?

An interview with a designer on a, gasp, non-designer web site! Louise Fili dishes on her designs for gastronomic clients. [Via Design Observer]

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DeVry ( On Your Way Today ) University, introduces new program in Web graphic design.

According to the U.S. Department of Labor 2006-2007 Occupational Outlook Handbook, demand for graphic design is expected to continue to increase from advertisers and computer design firms through 2014.

VV07d/

sadKermit's cover of Radio Head's Creep.

HI HO!

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The new Bloch Building extention at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art opens next weekend (June 9). Designed by Steven Holl Architects.

It even has its own blog. ( Posts listed from oldest to newest. )

VR/

As an Official War Artist during World War II, he designed over a hundred posters and later created the symbols of the BBC and the Festival of Britain. Exhibit on Abram Games.

Via Noisy Decent Graphics.

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Anselm Kiefer! Anselm Kiefer! Anselm Kiefer!

VR/

Outkast's Hey Ya (cover)

Music and type animation.

FreeHand is dead!

Note to self: Check on FreeHand's "export as Illustrator 5" capability. Damn you Adobe!

Very Sadly,

Good clean books.

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Best "typo" this month:

James A. Gugel, chief planner with the Frederick County Planning Division, said this week that Metro will never extend so far north because of the typography of the land along Interstate 270 would make such a project too expensive.

VR/

SAN FRANCISCO: Bridge officials unveil designs for suicide barriers.

VR/

Historic Signs of Central Florida

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Lunchbag Art
Handmade lunchbags for what might be the luckiest kid on earth.

Disclaimer: sadKermit is in no way affiliated with Disney or The Jim Henson Company.

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Assigned one portion of a world map, distributed in pieces by visiting critic Karel Martens to his graphic design students at the Yale School of Art, Eric Nevin created a booklet of love letters to the islands of the sub-Antarctic.

Design for the Other 90% at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, through September 23, 2007. New York Times article .

Sure Shots: The photos of Montreal's Sanchez brothers.

Via CBC.

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"My photographs are primarily a documentation of a physical evolution. I have changed a common object into sculpture in a state of flux." -- Cara Barer, Photographer.

Via Moon River.

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Oscar Muñoz, Proyecto para un monumento (Project for a Memorial), 2005. Part of a Slate slide-show.

WARNING: Crashes Safari. >:-(

Very Respectfully,

Modest Mouse Video Animated On 4133 Kinko's Photocopies by Max Tyrie.

Via Table of Malcontents.

Copy that?

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RECOMMENDED READING: Michael Atkinson's article on The Believer -- Other People's Bookmarks: Fellow Wanderers of a Forgotten Republic.

VR/

BREAKING NEWS: First look: Enter the Joker — in the IMAX format.

ADDITIONAL: Spooky! Via Blog Critic.

VR/

Goof Gallery, misguided attempts to understand living and extinct organisms. Via Coudal.

Very funny. ( Wait for it. And, move your mouse around. And click it every once in a while.)

Via Computer Love.™

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15 Worst iPhone Concepts.

Hello!

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Star Wars, Mmm, Bad Logo You Are.

MTFBWY/

"Read up on literary classics that bear similar storylines and characters to the ones [found in] Star Wars," … before the show.

VR/

Forgot to mention: Mr. Magazine!

VR!/

100 Wallpaper covers:

Vote to win!

VR/

Best appropriation of Wood's American Gothic I've seen in a while.

VR/

Battles "Atlas"

Let the mind games begin!

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BARKING NEWS: Dog Breeders Issue Massive Recall Of '07 Pugs.

Photo documentation. Yipe!

Bow Wow!/

Two from Slate:
The Helvetica Hegemony
How an unassuming font took over the world.
"My Favorite Font"
Anne Fadiman, Jonathan Lethem, Richard Posner, and others (authors) reveal what font they compose in and why.

BREAKING NEWS: Make-It-Yourself 'Star Wars' Lucasfilm Will Post Clips From Film Saga on the Web, Inviting Fans to Edit at Will.

Starts tomorrow. May the "force" be with you.

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The Ephemera Society

Also, Robin Kinross documenting bookbinding techniques. And a relevant video.

Users enter The Booth, pose for 2 shots & exit as usual. During the developing process, the photos are "analyzed" & customized with forecasts consisting of patterns, symbols & messages.

Virtual human puts doctors inside their patients

Canadian researchers say they have developed the most detailed model of a human yet, a movable "4D" image that doctors can use to plan complex surgery or show patients what ailments look like inside their bodies.

Found …

Drawn with Lines by Sam Molleur.

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Walter Gaya: Shooter.

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Beautiful font by Alejandro Paul of Sudtipos.

BONUS: Check out the Burgues Script User Guide. Neat!

VR/

! ! ! has an interesting Web site. Heard about it on KEXP.

VR/

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Helvetica typeface, Linotype invites designers worldwide to take part in the Helvetica NOW poster contest.

VR/

So is this

That's Entertainment!

VR/

The Art of the Draw.

Personal fave.

:-)

VR/

Implementing Designism spreads awareness of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome, and of course, Designism. http://www.implementingdesignism.org

Gay people everywhere are celebrating tonight. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

VR/

"Crazy" Bob and his newfangled scanner.

VR/

The ads you'll never see.

Business card + water + sun = your own landcape

Creatures from the abyss + story.

Deep!

VR/

This music video makes me want to buy more hipster t-shirts.

The Beastie's have a new Web site. That's what was going …

down.

VR/

Christopher Burke, author of Paul Renner and the forthcoming Active literature: Jan Tschichold and New Typography , will be talking on "Jan Tschichold: the missing typefaces" at St. Bride Printing Library, London, on June 19. There is also an exhibition of work by Tschichold at the Library, opening the day of the talk and on display through August 23. More info here and here . (Via Typophile .)

Selected images from 10 years of photography by Stephen Shore.

Article.

VR/

GEEKS OF THE WORLD UNITE!!!

Finally, I can use my MacBook in the fight against the Dark Side.

Chicago olympics logo dead

Dr. Strangelove Dr. Strangelove by Kristan Horton.

POE.

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Holy Donut Holes! The Simpsons are 400 episodes old this Sunday!

Tempest Fugit. ( Ummmmmm … Why don't they get any older? )

VR/

Designmai in Berlin.

Flikr sets by PLAZED & We Make Money Not Art. ( Sehr Wichtig! )

Via: Addict3D.

Dare I say it … ? Wow!

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Antony Gormley's Blind Light exhibit in London. ( And the rooftop sculptures. )

VR/

Kathleen Creighton, Chair of Pratt Institute's Communication Design department, sent this out to faculty today:

It is with profound and boundless sadness that I write of the death of Charles Goslin. Charlie collapsed after teaching both of his classes on Tuesday and died shortly thereafter in the emergency room at Beth Israel hospital.
For many years he embodied the Pratt design aesthetic: concept/image as metaphor-based design. He educated generations of designers and illustrators and leaves a void that can never be filled.

Here's a piece Scott Santoro wrote on Charlie:
http://www.worksight.com/prattgallery_goslin_art.html

Here's a commencement speech by Charlie on Scott's site:
http://www.worksight.com/prattgallery_goslin_art.html

" "The power of a lone blog post. "

...or...

"There's a worm in this Apple!"

...or...

"Yeouch! That's one bad day at the office."

Ha! Way Cool! Holy Smokes! HOT! BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Young-Hae Chang's THE ART OF SLEEP, 2006.

( Everything is art. )

Full Disclosure: Previously posted on BetA.

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“The World of Philippe Starck . . . Discover Yourself.”

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"As a band crooned a cover of Gnarls Barkley's 'Crazy,' the opportunistic crowd started swaying to the music and grabbing the free T-shirts."

BREAKING NEWS: New city logo design replaces blob.

In Anchorage, Alaska.

The winner.

The runners-up.

The blob.

Song.

Ha!

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Does anyone else have that recurring dream where you're floating over Slain's Castle in Scotland?

Here's what it's like.

Via Arts Daily.

Very Dreamily/

Digital Archive of Toyo Bunko Rare Books about the "Silk Road."

Bonus: Digital Silk Roads Imaginary Museum.

Via Social Fiction.

VR/

The Illustrated Guide to GOP Scandals. Funny! Can't wait to see the Democrats' version.

VR/

Location, location, location.

VR/

Slate reviews this year's Clio Awards.

50 Most Influential Visual Effects Films of All Time , according to the Visual Effects Society. Good list.

Fujiya & Miyagi … Ankle Injuries.

Whatever/

Paul Mijksenaar's "Visual Function: An Introduction to Information Design" is available to fully read online courtesy of Google books. A great read; it looks at some neat info-graphics history as well.

Read it here or, if for some reason the long complicated URL doesn't work, just go to http://books.google.com and do a search.

No, there are not enough typefaces already.

I have a disease! You may too. I don't think we should drink from the same mug anymore.

David Levinthal's iconic photography composed with figurine toys.

Cameras for Capturing the Primordial Fire.

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Typography is … (all about waiting for the download-- worth it!)

Via Real Art USA

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Two brands share similar logo marks. See a side-by-side comparison of Quark vs. Monster.com . It seems it's getting harder to create something truly new when it comes to logos.

The "other" Joe M -- the younger, more talented, better looking one -- Joe Marianek featured in Print.

Way to go Joe. Keep spreading the Joeness! ;-)

Very Respectfully,

ripple - Saving the world one click at a time. ripple lets you raise money for charity by viewing an ad a day, or running a web search powered by Google.

The real reasons Mac OS X Leopard is late.

Via Porcupine Colors.

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He would frequently end an evening by climbing on a table, removing his false teeth and declaring, “I am Tony Millionaire!”

Article.

VR/

“They’re full-bodied, full-blooded human beings.” Leonard Nimoy on his newest photography project.

Yes, that Leonard Nimoy.

VR/

The Bard gets a manga makeover . Supporting article from the bbc.

"If there was a magazine for design porn, The Creature would have a full centerfold!"

From Computer Love™.

VR/

GRAPHIC: T-SHIRT HELL!

And yes, they pay for ideas. But whatever you do, never submit a photo of yourself in one of their shirts. Or you will end up known as a T-SHIRT wearing whore.

Not that anyone on "Quips" would ever do that.

Just FYI.

(Is my face red?)

Oh, the shame.

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Innovation and design. Mystery and intrigue. The Confederate secret weapon that would help win the Civil War. This and more is the fascinating story of the CSS H.L. Hunley. A South Carolina treasure.

VR/

NUDE magazine.

Reviewed by Mr. Magazine.

Ha!

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The Alternative Pick Deck #1.

VR/

Beautiful waste
Chris Jordan's photo illistrations show "America through the austere lens of statistics."

Move over, Hallmark. Introducing greeting cards that offend everyone.

ART Of - Infographics

Information graphics or infographics are visual representations of information, data or knowledge. These graphics are used anywhere where information needs to be explained quickly or simply, such as in signs, maps, journalism, technical writing, and education. They are also used extensively as tools by computer scientists, mathematicians..

P.S. second attempt to post

Harlem’s Cultural Anchor in a Sea of Ideas.

And brilliant slide show.

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What's not to like? Cake? Good. Meat? Goooood. (via craftzine )

Los Angeles Times and Guardian Unlimited have "redesigned" their homepages.

VR/

Molecule of the Month Page.

May: Acetyl Coenzyme A. The molecule that makes fats, or burns them.

VR/

Buy Less Crap.

VR/

Two slideshows on Edward Hopper. One from Slate and one from the Museum of Fine Art Boston.

VR/

60 years of Chàteau Mouton Rothschild artist series labels. Wow!

Salvador Dali, Wassily Kandisky, Saul Steinberg, Keith Haring and more!

Bottoms up!

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Infographics (Information graphics)

Information graphics or infographics are visual representations of information, data or knowledge. These graphics are used anywhere where information needs to be explained quickly or simply, such as in signs, maps, journalism, technical writing, and education. They are also used extensively as tools by computer scientists, mathematicians..

Cabinet Magazine's Minor History of Miniature Writing.

What do men really want? 20,000 BTUs.

Ha!

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EXPLICIT: Girlz by Jason Freeny.

Armin is married. I'm not.

VR/

Tim Bray brings up a good question from The Economist:

"What do you think is the Twentieth Century’s most iconic piece of design; write in your answer and an explanation."

Happy 50th Birthday Helvetica

The Billion Trees Campaign, part of the United Nations Environment Programme. Via Coudal.

The Encyclopedia of Life aims to detail all 1.8 million known plant and animal species in a net archive.

Article.

VR/

Please don't tell PETA.

Bonde Do Role - Solta O Frango!

Pluck makes luck!

VR/

Received this cryptic e-mail yesterday:

IT'S

ABOUT

TO GO

DOWN

Have no idea what's going on, but am intrigued.

VR/

Do Designers Think Alike? The Design Experiment. There are so many articles out there saying one logo looks like another, so do graphic designers really think alike - take part and find out Graphic Design Blog - Do Designers Think Alike Experiment

Check out Candykiller by Brian Taylor.

Neat stuff!

Via Coudal.

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Typography set to jazz.

Bridges, balls, bells & burnings. Oh, my!

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Typography in Motion

Free Gilbert and George Art online

Set your bookmarks now. IFC.com brings you daily clips of the most profane language in film, thru the month of May. Juvenile, but funny.

America's Best-Loved Brands.

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Follow up: Article from Reason.

Additional: Ask every cute lady I see tomorrow if she's bifurcated. Avoid slaps from smart ones.

Fun with construction paper, or make that art with construction paper.

The website of Jen Stark.

Now where did I leave my leftover sheets of construction paper?

Note to Self: Wear ballcap and sunglasses when going out to buy History of Girly Magazines by Dian Hanson.

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Julius Popp's "Bit Fall."

Forgot all about this. Thank you Internet!

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The Emily Carr Institute 2007 Undergraduate Exhibition website

NPR story about the photos of Sammy Davis Jr.

More on the Tunick "installation."

Wow!

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Online Gallery of Eight Sacred Texts.

Via Charlie Beckett.

Tricky. But worth the effort. (I got a zany error message about a Shockwave extra/extension/plugin/--whatever, but ignored it and everything worked fine.)

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The Serif Fairy.

Via Blogging Authors.

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BREAKING NEWS: Ryan McGinley Named Young Photographer of the Year by the International Center of Photography.

Some photos.

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"The odor conveys sophistication, according to Steve Kloempken." Aromatic (and smartly designed) Balls.

Ha!

Note to self: Start saving now.

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Slideshow. John Maeda's digital design art.

Article.

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BREAKING NEWS: Thousands of Mexicans strip for Tunick.

¡Ay, caramba!

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French public health posters.

Via Didn't You Hear?

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Today is Free Comic Book Day! Has it been a year already? Wow!

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The Antikamnia Chemical Company.

Via BibliOdyssey.

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Stan Lee on/about/with/ Spider-Man.

Excelsior! :-)

Very Respectfully/

Slideshow. Alan Aldridge is a WILD MAN!

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I don't know much about Buddha, but his girlfriend -- HOT!

Additional.

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24 Hours of Flickr – A global Flickr community event!

Via Boicozine.

Too bad they didn't do it today. Ha!

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Do you need a 5-minute friend ?

Fancy drink? Crappy brush script!

Happy No Pants Day! You know what to do.

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Big Money! Canadian style. Cha-ching! Ay?

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The Webby Winners.

Congratulations to Mr. Bowie.

Very Respectfully,

Two Master Works of Non-retinal Art

From Social Fiction.

p.s. Check the animations. Brilliant!!!

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New Photog Challenges Peter Parker at 'Daily Bugle.'

Can't wait to see it.

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Now I know where I'm retiring. Kernstown, Pa.!

Might need to move it a tad to the northeast, though.

Ha!

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9 things I learned about the world according to anonymous stock photo models.

Super Hero Power Players.

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DesignQuote.

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The World of Coca-Cola Museum.

Article.

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Another Hallmark innovation.

Ha!

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Jazz. Nostalgia 77.

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The Hottest Women in Comics. (According to Maxim.) Lois Lane is in there!

But where the hell is Elecrta? (And where the hell are the Bill Sienkiewicz covers? Bonus [ HOT! ]: )

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The List.

From Artkrush.

Awesome!

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Designklicks. Very cool.

Via .\S

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Here it is again! Watch it while you can. WB is gonna take this down quick. WATCH IT!!! VERY COOL!!!

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The making of a pop-up book and the guys behind it.

WEEEEE-HAAAAWWWWWW! MoonRiver is a guest editor over on Coudal.

Way to go Moon!

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Check out Noah Webster’s Letter to John Pickering (1817).

Yikes!

From Eighteenth-Century Reading Room.

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Urban Outfitters has launched the first horizontal scrolling blog in the history of the internet. Turn it sideways indeed.

How to pass the "wife test."

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