The Design Auction, a design auction like none before it, with goodies from anyone that's worth bidding stuff for.

The WTC Logos Preservation Project, a collection of logos that feature the World Trade Center as part of the New York skyline.

Relive your adolescence with this interactive New York Times feature of MAD magazine's "Fold In" features created by Al Jaffee. Related article here. [Via Design Observer]

Yay: Video of the plastic bear/dog attached to subway street vents that inflates when a train goes by.

This one is going round and round the internets, and deservingly so: A rap about web design, standards and search engine optimization.

Paul Shaw on "...why some letters are "good" and others "bad", and why our lettering heritage is under threat from the current wave of luxocondification..." A tour at the NYPL on Monday, March 31 followed by another at the TDC on April 17.

The multi-level Japanese bookstore Kinokuniya, opened last fall in NYC and has a huge section of imported design books and rags. The best part is, it's straight across the street from the rear of the New York Public Library. [Thanks to Alex Lu]

Three nicely edited videos from CAUSE/EFFECT, an AIGA New York event from this past December: 1) Bobby Martin 2) Scott Stowell on Good magazine and 3) Mark Randall on the Urban Forest Project

Nice selection of opening film titles by readers of Entertainment Weekly. Not your typical fare, with some contemporary selections. [Via HOW]

OMG Posters! is a blog devoted to, oh my god, you guessed it, posters. It's actually an interesting selection of work. [Via Evasee]

Parodies of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Summer Games logo.

The Russian national emblem constructed out of insects. Beautiful, yet icky.

Two British ad guys (wearing black, of course) get Punk'd. Another possible intro to this Quip: Oh snap! [Via Dark Roasted Blend]

Great illustration on the theme of "entertainment violence." [Via Design You Trust]

Tyra Banks to Earth: Times New Roman is the font of 2008.

A t-shirt for reading between the lines: The troops… are… having… a… blast… here. [Via Tcritic]

A hefty collection of Christian-inspired products, imagery, advertising, and… a "Believe in God Instantly" breath spray.

Hard Format, a blog "reaching for the sublime in music design." [Via Fair Spot]

Manholes, they make for great advertising. [Via Dark Roasted Blend]

Very creepy Photoshop rendering of what Homer Simpson would look like as an actual human. [Via Design You Trust]

A portrait of Steve Jobs constructed out of Apple products. [Via Design You Trust]

Giles Gilbert Scott, architect and designer of the the iconic British K2 telephone kiosk, Liverpool Anglican Cathedral, and Bankside Power Station (now the Tate Modern.)

Clear whatever is left in your Good Friday schedule and check out these "Kinematic Typography" — in other words, type animated to match a dialogue or monologue — videos. [Via HOW]

Josh Abelow paints Mystic Truths.

Jewno, by Daily Show writer Rob Kutner and friends is a comedic retelling of the story of Esther, presented by the 92YTribeca. Listen for the Bowie parody at the end.

Forget the Air Jordans, this is a hot sneaker: "Converse will debut their Kurt Cobain collection of shoes featuring artwork and scribbles borrowed from Cobain's personal notebooks."

More accurate than racial profiling: Someone wearing a Scarface t-shirt is likely to be a criminal and here are the mug shots to prove it.

I had been looking for a nice resolution version of Karin Fong's "Get Real" animation for Herman Miller for a long time now. The redesign of Imaginary Forces' web site finally delivered it.

A collection of riffs — some involving monkeys and bunnies — on The Great Wave off Kanagawa, the famous woodblock printing by Japanese artist Hokusai.

Directdaily is a blog dedicated to advertising and direct mail. Hey, someone has to do it. Expect a few "Via"s from it in the future.

Test your graphic design knowledge with 124 questions in this flash card set up.

This is pretty great: A video showing off a clever pop-up book totally tricked out to display our beloved A-to-Z. [Via Type For You]

The first issue, #0, of Issue Magazine, "a place of discussion around critical materials, about graphic design in a broad sense, with a focus on new media." The navigation is a little wonky and the content a little all over the place, but this has strong potential — the best way to browse it might actually be through their RSS feed. [Via Manystuff]

Taxi Design Network celebrates its 100th issue. Indulge in 100 quotes.

"Collection of vintage logos from a mid-70s edition of the book World of Logotypes." [Via TypeNeu]

Covers of Freakonomics from around the world. That Japan one is pretty rockin'. [Via Kottke]

Most awesome pitch ever?: "One day our CEO told us that Pepsi wanted us to pitch some ideas of what promotional merchandise they could do for [Star Wars] Episode One." Death Star grill, anyone? [Via Nice Fucking Graphics]

Because no one can resist lovely sketched notes: Mike Rhodes' moleskine from SXSW's most recent installment. [Via Brandflakesforbreakfast]

"Dear Fedex: You Suck. Typographically yours, Angry Customer." [Via I Love Typography]

Pop album covers redesigned to appear as academic tracts. Jessica Simpson and Paris Hilton never looked smarter. [Via ISO50]

Tapewriter: "A font based upon the grid of fences. It's a form of graffiti that makes optimal use of its surface."

"Interesting" way to present a portfolio — only bearable because the work is interesting, without quotes. [Via Manystuff]

Breaking the business card to its bare essentials. Sure beats trying to find a place for office, fax, mobile and alternate phone numbers.

Aaron Koblin's TheSheepMarket: "A collection of the first 10,000 sheep made by workers on Amazon's Mechanical Turk. Workers were paid 0.02 ($USD) to 'draw a sheep facing to the left.'" [Spotted on Wired magazine]

Addendum to No. 39 below: The press release took the meaning of font literally, counting every weight and variant of each typeface; the package includes 25 type families. [Thanks to Doug Bartow for pointing that out]

Alright, this is getting a little too extreme now: Another Shepard Fairey poster for the Obama campaign, available for sale in the Artists for Obama section of the candidate's store. I think it's time for the graphic saturation backlash to begin. [Via Drawn]

In case you missed it more than ten years ago, or if you just want a good laugh for the good ol' days: David Carson's rendition of an interview set in Zapf Dingbats for Ray Gun.

If I understand this correctly, Adobe and AIGA will be offering 500 OpenType fonts for $149.00 with their introduction of Adobe® Font Folio Education Essentials. It sure beats stealing fonts.

A comprehensive collection of cigarette rolling papers. (And just in case you are wondering why two smoking-related Quips: Research for new Camel packs.)

Wow, these grocery stores sure look better than the crappy Key Food around the corner from me. Is that Blur in the first picture? Double-wow. [Via Evasee]

More Camel cigarette pack designs than you ever thought possible, and these are only the U.S. editions.

I have no idea why this exists or who put it together, but it's a massive, and massively detailed, database of magazine print ads from 1930 to 1969, organized by advertiser, product, year, magazine… Mamma mia, there goes my wanting to go to sleep early tonight.

Get affiliated with the cool kids: Introducing SoDA (Society of Digital Agencies).

Beautifully photographed water alphabet. [Via VIBE]

"Infantile posturing aside, Fairey’s art is problematic for another, more troubling reason — that of plagiarism." [Via Nice Fucking Graphics]

Times New Rope. [Via Manystuff]

Print Magazine announces the 2008 New Visual Artists.

Sam Potts charts the effect of Dungeons & Dragons and how it relates to Atari, Vin Diesel, Dune, and, most importantly, girls. Accompanying op-ed article here.

Wolff Olins presents The Store of Tomorrow, where I'm not sure what happens, but it does so in London and New York and it involves mystery boxes. [Via The Serif]

So you know: How to draw leaf script. [Via TypeNeu]

"Tagged in Motion": Graffitti in 3D. [Via Dark Roasted Blend]

Back in the late 90s, when I was an aspiring crazy-typeface designer, this PDF would have been better than getting a Nintendo for Christmas: An issue-by-issue breakdown of the influential FUSE font/magazine by Neville Brody. This is related to the D&AD Student Awards, where one of the briefs is to create a typeface that will be part of the relaunch of FUSE. [Via I Love Typography]

Creative Review uncovers the true inspiration behind the Wacom, Swisscom and countless other freeform 3-d logos.

Typographica's always enjoyable "Our Favorite Typefaces" series presents its 2007 edition.

Pimp my Moleskine: With laser engraving. [Via Evasee]

Winners of the 2008 Design Week Awards. Some great work in there. [Via Turner Duckworth]

A Carlsberg billboard made out of Carlsberg bottles.

Do courtroom sketchers do more than courtroom sketching? [Via Drawn]

Spelling "Helvetica" through some sort of avant garde fashion. No direct link though, click here, then navigate to Jobs > Ping Pong 2004. [Via TypeNeu]

[Cap style sic] "THE BOY HIMSELF Was A FRIENDS CHILD WHO Was being bullied AT SCHOOL, and [...] he wAS NOW A LEader… and hAS NOT BEEN BULLIED SINCE.": A look at DJ Shadow's consistently deployed visual image. [Via Evasee]

Flickr user Maraid has some great sets, including photos of an abandoned British paper mill and some great images of photo, film and sound ephemera. [Via Evasee]

The work of Graphic Thought Facility will be on display at The Art Institute of Chicago from March 27 to August 17. This is "the first exhibition at the Art Institute devoted solely to the work of a single design firm." Stop by if you are in the Windy City. [Via Manystuff]

Pay your dues; the libraries' function as a repository for books may end by 2019. A slideshow essay on Slate.

Two renegade bloggers from Be A Design Group have gone rogue, creating their own foray into the design webosphere, and 36point.com means business.

The most awesome virus for Macs. It's non-harmful and adds gravity to your desktop. Just watch. [Via Elektro Plankton]

Artist Phil Hansen carves a portrait of Amy Winehouse out of frozen red wine, then lets it melt (video). I bet this is a metaphor for something. More information here. [Via Artkrush]

Concept car or prop from Pirates of the Caribbean? You decide.

Visual culture fans convene! Gestalten has launched a series of podcasts. I'm partial to this flora-heavy interview with Brendan Monroe.

What's NXT in consumer packaging you ask? It's NXT, the shaving gel, after shave and face wash packaged with light-emitting diodes. [Via Brandflakesforbreakfast]

Get your very own, personalized Obama logo! [Via Vibe]

Two design studios with great work: From Barcelona, Albert Folch Studio, and from Mainz, Stefan Ruetz. [Via Serif, and Manystuff]

"Don't Drink and Drive" pales in comparison to these Prohibition era posters and illustrations against drinking. [Via Fabrica]

For its "Best of New York" special issue New York magazine challenged Alan Dye, Carin Goldberg, Gretel, Wieden+Kennedy, and Wolf Ollins to outdesign each other in hopes of landing the cover design.

Star Wars, film titles by Saul Bass. Only in a galaxy far, far away would this happen. [Via Kottke]

Will tomorrow's world still need designers? A thought-provoking (albeit surface-level) perspective on the future of design.

Not sure the best way to Quip this but I'll try: Music video where the lyrics are interpreted as "retro logo animations". [Via Motionographer]

Thank you for reading and contributing. Remember: Quip Responsibly.
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This summer's topic: Fail Again. Typography in Flux.
July 20-25, Vinalhaven, Maine

Wrestlemania ads in Florida are strictly nipple free.

A new designer series from our favorite people over at Quark. Featuring many peoples favorite designer David Carson. (and of course they require you to create a free account, I can see the promotional emails pouring in already)

In 1970, Ghia Design studio (yes, that Ghia ) teamed up with Smith-Corona to create a typewriter with the fastest quarter-mile ever .

You should check out kisforkatie.etsy.com . I just bought a card, and they are hilarious.

DystopiaNow is watching the impact of technology on our culture.

What's with the designer's remorse?

Philippe Starck believes design is dead.

Courtesy of DO.

Walmart isn't having a nice day.

Keeping track of April can be pretty .

Steve Jobs on Paul Rand and the development of the Apple logo.

You might be familiar with designer toys but take a look at this craftier, more affordable alternative. Designer Paper
[ Via T-Shirt Magazine ]

Green Skirts Are Out!!!

Girl Scouts Seek an Image Makeover as organization faces a 'nonjoiner' society.

The Girls Scouts organization announces the appointment of its first chief marketing officer, a former senior partner and executive group director at WPP Group's Ogilvy & Mather.

Via the Wall Street Journal

Medieval Tech Support

007, Licensed to mac...
job opportunity with MI6....

InternshipRatings.com

I think the name says it all.

Via The Daily Slurp

30 years of Jacqueline Casey posters

Beautiful poster work from Muriel Cooper's fellow designer at MIT.

Join in the last two weeks of Be A Design Group .

Salvador Dali proves art isn't instantaneous: you make a lot of mistakes in the process .

i'm not sure i'm ready to be this nerdy...

Pantone Eyewear

Toyota's Scion Speak lets car owners design and download a custom coat of arms .

A flickr group of songs in chart form. Flick-rolling and scheduling The Cure are my favorites, with a "complicated" presentation as a very pretty runner up!

Nice typography and motion-graphics from heyjose.com .

Can I spot the "real" logo? I'm a freakin' genius! Can I spot the counterfeit product? Um, not so much...

Great quizzes to test your brand knowledge:

Spot the "real" corporate logo .

Logo awareness quiz .

Advertising slogan quiz .

Spot the counterfeit product .

The peace symbol turns 50 .

Designers helping a good cause with So-Cal relief posters

[Ed. Note: Link corrected] Pretty cool design and use of paper. Asia meets New York

What if Helvetica dated Comic Sans?

Try TYPEmatching .

Typography 8 (1987)
A glance at the world of typography of two decades past

Not all Cold War fallout shelters were armored underground behemoths: some were disguised as snack bars (from " Fallout Protection for Homes With Basements ")

Puting cities on the map that are already on the map

LIFE Covers searchable by date + keyword.

From Moleskine to Market .
The creation of the Newzald typeface. From sketches to a marketable font.

Awesome radio show on advertising, from CBC. Not yet available as a podcast due to not-yet-written copyright laws, but now available as streaming audio.

The Age of Persuasion www.cbc.ca/ageofpersuasion/

The Believer has a fascinating interview with set decorator Sandy Reynolds-Wasco . I didn't know her name before reading it, but she's responsible for the inimitable set stylings of The Royal Tenenbaums and Pulp Fiction, among others.

Nick's Senior Thesis: Developing a prototype for navigating the universe of typography.

The case for the interrocolon .

"Does the name sound mildly proctological? Yes — that’s part of it’s charm. Does the world need this? No." For use "when the direct object of an interrogative statement references an example, a URL or another statement in a follow-on block of text."

Adbyfire.com , a work in progress, site devoted to Advertising students and hopefuls looking to get into the industry.

Have you seen a truly awful piece of Photoshop work? Report it here .

Daddy, can I go to Type Camp?

Registration for Type Camp 2008 is now open.

Possible some of the most beautiful Code Generated Art I have ever seen.

Hillary Clintons' Poli-graph

Adobe save the Queen.

A new website: www.KnowYourValues.com featuring video interviews with graphic designers.
Watch the short teaser

How Banksy gave Swiss embassy an image makeover .

Serif shoes

ReBrand 100 announces 2008 winners .

New FREE skull font from Skull-A-Day: Skullphabet 2

Mark Bittman takes a virtual break .

Clients: Beware, and Be Clear!
The point is, creative briefs are not meant to be THAT brief. So pretty please, start writing more stuff on your post-it note. Use both sides even.

Please.