Out of a thousand little design pieces in the current Print Regional Design Annual, it was only Jesse Kirsch's poster for the 19th Columbia Film Festival, that made stop the flipping and actually look. Lovely solution with what would otherwise be two unbearable clichés (film roll and camera).

STEP magazine's upcoming cover, designed by Modern Dog, is deadly. Sure, it might not look it from the cute picture of the All-American girl with her basket of art supplies and a puppy. [Smaller pic here]. But look harder… and you will find Modern Dog's 140 ways to Die. Subliminal art is alive and well, thank you very much!

The talented design department at Minneapolis' Walker Art Center is now, officially, blogging. If this doesn't whet your appetite, I don't know what would: "There are boxes and boxes full of postcards, flyers, brochures, posters, gallery guides, and other Walker ephemera that we would love to properly document and archive. Since we don’t have the time to do that, we’ll just pull out a few pieces each month…" [Via the New Media Initiatives Blog]

E-mail spam has never looked lovelier: Hand-lettered spam one-liners by UK-based illustrator Linzie Hunter. [Via Drawn]

If you are a fan of Marian Bantjes — and who isn't? — you might want to spend $45.00 on her first, and awesome, typeface: Restraint. [Apologies for the friendly and blatant shilling!]

Lucky you if you speak German: Some sort of kick ass manual about corporate identity, put together by, what I can gather, a group of German students, which you can download. But, no matter, just click here for some lovely infographics to be found in the document. [Via ffffound]

Provo, UT-based designer Keenan Cumming's take on globalization: A world map made of America(s).

If you watched The Office last week (or DVR'd it and watched it last night) you may have been as excited as I was to see the result of Pam's logo animation for Dunder Mifflin's Scranton TV ad that kept her up until 2:15 am. The verdict? Pretty darn cool.

A cleverly crude and slightly violent bit of motion graphics: Great album covers battle it out for supremacy. [Via Dark Roasted Blend]

The opening titles for the aforementioned (No. 71) Typophile Film Fest by design students at BYU: Life as experienced through type. [Via Design Observer]

The Pentagon gets on the design contest bandwagon: "We realize that part of the energy that comes with creating a new organization is the brand development, and the first tactic is a logo that will communicate a certain look and feel for the DMA," Deputy Assistant Defense Secretary for Public Liaison and Internal Communications Allison Barber said. "I'm excited to see what comes in from the participants who decide to compete in the logo contest, because I think we have such talented individuals."

AIGA/NY gives Proust personality questionnaires to Wim Crouwel and Massimo Vignelli. Michael Brenner recaps the Alice Twemlow-moderated conversation.

An interesting article on Getty's stronghold of the market. The Glass Half Full outlook on this is the options, like Digital Railroad: "It returns 80 percent of sales to the photographer. 'We're not an agency, we're a marketplace. We let anyone publish, and the best get voted to the top'."

Information design + Beef = One of the most awesome charts ever. [Via ffffound]

Addendum to No. 72: More, and more (!) images of Avant Garde. I can't get enough of that tight letterspacing in the headlines.

A cool poster-like image made out of stuff. Accompanying video enhances its kickassedness. [Via ffffound]

Whoah: The Corporate Brand Matrix.

What a subtle and lovely design gesture: Flip the pages of a book, see a rainbow. [Via ffffound]

iType, by Topos Graphics, combines naked people and iPods to create a typeface. [Via ffffound]

Clever campaign to point out how to behave on the road when kids are around. It's amazing how a kid's drawing can have so much impact.

Already a classic...the CBS expose on typography, featuring Steve Heller, Hoefler & Frere-Jones and a narrator with a buttery voice who says "logofonts."

A year old, but still a good listen. Alissa Walker talks about taking the bus in LA.

Now in its 43rd year, the final decision for Print magazine's Student Cover Competition is by public voting. So, be public, and go vote!

Some photographs of the the first seven issues of the Ralph Ginzburg-edited and Herb Lubalin-designed Avant Garde.

October 25, San Francisco: Punchut presents the fourth edition of the insanely popular Typophile Film Fest.

If you find yourself needing to measure things regularly, here is the t-shirt for you. [Via Dark Roasted Blend]

Michael Johnson on Fast, Good, or Cheap: "It remains one of the fastest ways I know to make people stop and value what we do just a little bit more."

A limited edition poster celebrating the ironic lyrics of Amy Winehouse. [Via NiceFuckingGraphics]

These commercials expose the political conspiracy that is the alleged global warming crisis. [Thanks to Yve Ludwig]

Are speech bubbles just speech bubbles? Or are they Stefan Bucher's speech bubbles?

Steve Heller gets Gothamistisized (aka, interviewed).

As you may have noticed, I'm a devoted follower of ffffound, the image bookmarking site. I was the happy recipient of an invitation to bookmark me some images and extend my time wasted spent online threefold. Anyway, you can see my stream of bookmarks at this URL, and you could even RSS it. Also, in case you missed it, we had a nice review of ffffound on Speak Up.

A historical flexible identity: 143 ways to say SEGA. [via PSFK]

Fascinating, large-scale, hand-drawn facsimiles of 200 NY Post and Daily News covers by Aleksandra Mir.

Create new and hybrid flags for countries at We are Multicolored, a collaboration between ad-man Jeremy Hutchison and the Lower East Side Tenement Museum.

I love it when we get advanced notice for Brand New material: Mercedes-Benz will unveil a new identity on November 1st. [Via NameWire]

This is the kind of typographic-based design one dreams about pulling off… Make it about chocolate and it's downright delicious.

A couple of months ago we mentioned a party-pooper response to a project where the D&AD asked designers to do something clever with their flag — here are the results.

A map constructed of each country's top-level domain (i.e., .mx for Mexico).

Create your own children's book with Blank Board Books!
[via Swissmiss]

Perhaps the most amazing archive of identity design: The Pocket Protector Museum. [Via Boing Boing]

Critiques of the new NYC Taxi logo adorning all cabs in the city: Round 1 features Michaels Bierut and Rock on the spot, and Round 2 offers some alternatives from Sam Potts and Oscar Bjarnason.

Pat Sajak and Vanna White discuss fonts. No, they do, really.

The "blog" of "unnecessary" quotation marks. You can thank me later for "resisting" the urge to put quotation marks around my pithy commentary. [Via HOW]

Coroflot's Design Salary Survey, always one of the best resources, is gathering data now for the 2007 edition. It takes less than two minutes.

"Rats are the most ubiquitous tool of shame, but not the only one used by Mr. Rynkiewicz’s union. There is also a cigar-smoking pig, a gorilla and a skunk." I have always been fascinated with the inflatable giant rats that pop in Manhattan every day.

Speak Up's author Debbie Millman is within the top ten People's Choice Design Award by the Cooper-Hewitt. Best of luck.

Great work by Mario Hugo. Including this great, grayscale poster. [Via Ffffound]

Design 21's calling for identity submissions for the United Nations Documentary Film Festival. Deadline: November 26.

Don't be the 5th Guy. A clever public health campaign that even the Today show likes.

A bunnyrrific moving announcement for Wolff Olins.

What do Mikhail Gorbachev, Catherine Deneuve, and Andre Agassi have in common? They all travel with Louis Vuitton, of course. Odd group to say the least, but beautiful photography, as always, by Annie Leibovitz.

After you are done looking for shapes in the clouds, look for some letters. [Via Ffffound]

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King's long-ass end credits. [(again) Via Dark Roasted Blend]

Nice crack. [Via Dark Roasted Blend]

A series titled "Embarrassing Posters". More like campy, bad or naive, but I guess embarrassing works. [Via Dark Roasted Blend]

The rare use of numbers and letters on sports uniforms — sparked by twins playing for the Kentucky Wildcats in the early 50s, who were differentiated as 1A and 1B.

November 9, 2007, New York: Core77 presents Design, Wit, and the Creative Act — part of their Offsite Series — featuring Paul Budnitz, Kelly Dobson, Steven Heller, and Tobias Wong, moderated by Ze Frank.

In case you missed this chair in some of the design mags: Alexander Reh's Fully Loaded Chair. [Via ElektroPlankton]

Reviews of AIGA Next so far: @Unbeige / @Core77 / @HOW. And check Flickr for photos tagged with aiganext — including an unfortunate picture of host Kurt Andersen. We should have a review (or a couple) on Speak Up soon.

101 Things Designers Can Do To Save The Earth [Via Digg]

Some very lovely, überproduced — reversible designs anyone? — t-shirts for designers and creative types at Where Design Comes From.

Three highlights from last night's 20/20 installment at AIGA Next: 1) Christopher Baker's take on architecturally-integrated urban screens, a lovely display of reactive typography. 2) Andrew Sloat's mesmerizing, twelve-panel ode to the 22nd Ammendment, Section One. 3) And, despite only a Coming Soon splash page, you should keep an eye out on Amy Wang's Ametrica, an effort to take America metric.

Victor Cedarstaff, inventor of the Bolo Tie. Here's his patented design.

Victor Cedarstaff was riding his horse one day when his hat blew off. Wary of losing the silver-trimmed hatband, he slipped it around his neck. His companion joked, "That's a nice-looking tie you're wearing, Vic.?

(I've already spotted three at the AIGA NEXT conference in Denver.)

The power of packaging. Of course, designers already knew this. [Via Digg]

Semi-live blogging from the National Design Conference at AIGA/NY's DESIGNY.

Apologies in advance as I will be posting VERY little, if nothing at all, over the next four days as I travel to and fro Denver for the AIGA national design conference.

"With nearly one hundred participating writers, artists, and designers, Nothing Moments embraces the disparate fields of visual art, literature, and design. […] Nothing Moments consists of twenty-three limited edition books and more than four hundred original drawings." [Via Unbeige]

A Star Wars action figure collector goes pixel-mad. [Via Drawn]

Yet another interview with Stefan Sagmeister. Design sounds more interesting with an Austrian accent, no doubt.

Are Google's special logos unAmerican? [Thanks to Felix for the link]

Jean-Pierre Dionnet's poster collection is for sale. A sampling. The full monty.

Nice print ads for The Economist but, then again, I am a sucker for the black/red/white combo. [Via John Nack on Adobe]

Not one but two Australian design sites.

Vintage advertising gone wild, parts I and II. [Via Dark Roasted Blend]

The top 15 magazine covers — including the Best Use of Photoshop prize. [Via magCulture]

Flickr set of 39 posters by Willi Kunz — a series for Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation lecture series — recently added to MoMA's permanent collection. More info. [Via Design Observer]

This is pretty funny: Two artists, Christine and Justin, are making drawings of things they want and selling them for the price of what that thing might cost (plus tax, apparently). So a drawing of an iPhone would cost $432.42, while a drawing of a good joke, would be free. [Via Gothamist]

Prettiest remote control. Ever. [Via Elektro Plankton]

"Here is a thing, design on it" is the best kind of brief there is. Re-Bag takes gray reusable canvas bags and silkscreens, only 250 times, the design of 15 invited designers on the theme of sustainability. More at Creative Review.

One day left for OpenHouseNewYork architecture/design tours.
See all site listings by borough. Top of my list is the Paul Rudolph house.

Tired of the existing design periodicals? Itching to write something for one? For both ailments, try Design and Culture, launching March of 2009.

The People's Design Award for the Cooper-Hewitt's National Design Award is back. Last year's popular winner? The Katrina Cottage.

Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher's Learning to Love You More project is now in book form.

Because you never know when you will need a plate showing human muscle tissue with captions in blackletter, a nice, time-consuming resource of historical anatomical atlases. [Via Kottke]

A sampling of continuous line art. What, no Felix Sockwell love?

Two days ago, the formal inquest in the death of Princess Diana began in the UK. If anyone wants to follow the evidence….

"Some of the charming design mavens interviewed love the egalitarian simplicity of the letterforms; other type-y types hate the oppressive blandness." Helvetica gets an A- from Entertainment Weekly.

Sarah Keough at Print Fetish brings us photos of Printed Matter's (the coolest designey bookstore in town) New York Art Book Fair.

Hee hee… Fun with bezier curves on the street. [Via Ffffound]

Great work by London-based A2/SW/HK. [Via Design You Trust]

A collaborative, photographic alphabet. Worth the registration at this site to learn and see more.

The best part about posters are their size, so why not shrink-wrap them to fit in the palm of your hand?

PrintMagazine's New Visual Artists, ADC's Young Guns, STEP'sEmerging Talent… all celebrate youth and design. If you fall in this generational category, look out, some people hate you. [Via Fabrica]

This may explain why I have been a little lax on my Quip'n. If it doesn't, well, segueing from full-time employment after 8 years into your own bossness takes more time and energy than first expected. Expect more Quip'n!

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The greatest laptop sleeve ever, for Halloween or alls-the-time.

Telemarketers make use of a telescript - a guideline for a telephone conversation. This script creates an imbalance in the conversation between the marketer and the consumer. It is this imbalance, most of all, that makes telemarketing successful. This counterscript attempts to redress that balance.

Microsoft redesigns the iPod packaging to humorous effect.

The Last Supper in 16 billion pixels . Get close .

Some of the more well known Dutch graphic designers with bios and examples of their work.

MEAN BAGS™ : a revolutionary new type of bean bag specifically made for pelting at others.

The Chairpadbag ...helping kids to concentrate. They also make a Bottlecoolerpenholder via dragons den

Phil Collins + Guy in Ape Suit + Cadbury's Chocolate = ???

Something every designer needs, in cream form .

Mirror Mirror on the wall...(or not)

Pentagram brings an air of sophistication to the casual dining world with their fresh take on Ruby Tuesday .

Has Colbert chosen another South Carolina Favorite Son as a running mate ?

Mac-O-Lanterns

Designer Packing Tape Review (over 20 designs)
Ordinary packing tape takes on a whole new dimension when printed with pretty or clever designs. We've put together an international collection of designer packing tapes that were too cool not to share.

Scroll down to the video clip here on the evolution of the manga cover for the November issue of Wired Magazine.

The bicycle design blog .

A sketchbook that changes its aspect ratio from portrait to landscape , page by page.

When I grow up, I want to work in advertising

When it comes to type design, is imitation the sincerest form of flattery?

CIA's "terrorist buster" logo .

Love avant-garde filmmakers? Love heavy metal music? Here are the t-shirts for you. [ via ]

Unofficial music video for Radiohead's "All I Need" with footage from Microcosmos. From the fellow (me) that did the Arcade Fire - Sergio Leone video, in case you saw it.

So what IS graphic design? really?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeRwFkjQe6s

Thanks to Coudal for all the great links. Here's one to them: SHHH!

Film is not dead it just smells funny.

Print media will only die if we kill our individuality.

Stephen Gill's Buried, photographs buried at the site they were taken, then dug up to reveal the area's impact on them.

Also, Richard Misrach's On the Beach, revealing the isolation and occasional terror of paradise.

Blackwater's kindler, gentler new logo. Old logo here.

The Quiet Life has enlisted some hefty creative talent to help them celebrate their tenth anniversary. It's the Bauhaus Skull in particular that caught my eye.

Sit Back, Relax, and Enjoy "The Show". Wine labels by Hatch Posters that is. One of the oldest working letterpress print shops in America.

A handbook for 'problem' clients from id29 in Troy, NY
LMAO...

Everything you need to know about graphic design in 40 seconds. A 20/20 report.

Retired ad executive Bill Blackshaw compares the show Mad Men to his own experience at BBDO in the 60s.

Gotta Love Jack. A Few Good Creative Men - SPOOF.

AIGA SF Fall Gala: “The Afterlife, Paper, Purgatory and The Great Beyond”—November 15

Join AIGA San Francisco for our biggest event of the year and help rescue paper from recycling limbo with a benefit auction of post-consumer paper apparel and objets d’art by some of the Bay Area’s great designers. We’ll have a runway show, lots of giveaways from our industry sponsors and music provided by DJ Teeko.

The road to hell is paved with wasted paper.

Motion and design studio, Studio Dialog updates with new work from Disney, ABC Family, Rolex, the Minnesota Zoo and lots more.

A copywriter's blog, so funny my face hurts. The best by far.

Banker/Hand letterer/Station Guard? Shuetsu Sato becomes the gaffer tape sensation of October 2007 and makes us envious

Lego Print Ads: Through a Child's Eyes .

More than 70% of the world’s toys are made in China. In wake of the recent incidents involving manufactures like Mattel, production processes are becoming far more scrutinized. Here are photos from inside a Chinese toy factory.

Speaking of time travelers... the show isn't so great, but among Journeyman's redeeming qualities is its title sequence . Subtle and sweet.

simple, yet striking: is it christmas?

Four wheels of fury. (via Advertising Lab)

Notes on Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day, which falls on December 8th of each year (no matter which one it is).

I know where I'm going on my next ten vacations: the 10 most amazing temples in the world.

Do you like bling and pussy? Then check out rapcat . This campaign by the agency Amalgamated was created for the fast food chain Checkers.

the interiors of design agencies from all over the world - singapore, australia, UK, US, etc.

awesome.

Did graphic design help win a Nobel Prize?

Michael Fallon analyzes How Creativity is Killing the Culture.

Gorgeous underwater photography from David Doubilet.

Graphic Modernism from the Baltic to the Balkans, 1910-1935 , an exhibition that "explores the interplay between post–World War I national revivals and the broader European modernist artistic and literary movements of the early 20th century until the establishment of authoritarian regimes in the mid-1930s", takes place at the New York Public Library between October 5, 2007 and January 27, 2008.

MMMMMM Environmentalism, sweet sweet Environmentalism [Via Adage ]

Heaven is a place where all animals go. People's heaven is under ground.

Airport , an animated short made with the DOT/AIGA pictograms .

Arial versus Helvetica .
Think you know the difference? Compare them in real time with the new Fontometer application.

"It's an attempt to buddy up to buyers by pretending to share their dislike for advertising. But an anti-ad is really just an ad that doesn't have the guts to admit to what it is." The story behind, and a negative critique of, those sparse Ketel One ads. Via Coudal.

Covering Photography is a web-based archive and resource for the study of the relationship between the history of photography and book cover design. So sweet.

Art with nails and toothpicks

And I thought my work was time consuming.

Web design brought to you by NASA

Similar to the t-shirt that helps you order your coffee quicker, this one helps you navigate places where you don't know the language. Just point at what you need on your shirt.

Dove's evolution ad: thank god our perception of real life is distorted

These cookies are best fresh out of the car. ( via )

Brilliant new campaign from Dove: Onslaught

Design Faster!

For those who enjoy staying up all night looking at photos on the internet, those who enjoy looking into other people's windows and those who enjoy the process of renovating your home. Renovation Voyeur .