This new book from Gestalten, Fully Booked, looks pretty awesome. You can pre-order at Amazon. [Via Manystuff]

Typography-inspired movie puns! i.e., Back to the Futura. [Via Design Observer]

Ten Thousand Cents is an incredible "digital artwork that creates a representation of a $100 bill. Using a custom drawing tool, thousands of individuals working in isolation from one another painted a tiny part of the bill without knowledge of the overall task." This video illustrates the process. [via SwissMiss]

Typography-inspired baby names! "Pilcrow" is actually awesome.

Reading books is for losers, decorating your house with said books is for winners. These, admittedly beautiful, leather books can be purchased as singles, by the yard, or by the foot. [Via BuzzFeed]

An aggregation of 618 front pages of newspapers from around the world. The page creates a remarkable texture. [Via Coudal]

Extremely entertaining collection of homages to Edward Hopper's "Nighthawks" painting. [Via Dark Roasted Blend]

You never know when you will need a multi-line/inline/concentric-line typeface, so here is a handy four-page guide to these kind of typefaces. [Via Typophile]

From here until the next Opposites Attract event on June 12th, we will be posting work by our upcoming guests Ed Fella and Post Typography on the OA'08 blog with the usual pithy commentary.

The skyline of San Francisco, replicated with pots and pans.

Everyday boxes, like a matchbox or durex box, become real-life Transformers in this ambitious stop motion video. [Via Motionographer]

Joshua Davis is into gardening, who knew? A video interview.

Khoi Vinh chats with Alice Twemlow, co-chair of the D-Crit MFA at SVA: "One venue where we’ll be able to test the students’ endeavors with an audience will be at the annual D-Crit conference, an event which graduating students will organize themselves and in which they’ll present their thesis projects alongside keynote speakers of their choice. The first of these conferences will be in May 2010 and I think that’s where we’ll be able to gauge, to some extent at least, the public reaction to their new work." Can't wait for this conference.

Pick a President...or, um, a T-shirt? Hillary Clinton presents Project T-shirt.

Nice typographic-driven work by French design firm Akatre. [Via TypeNeu]

Smashing Magazine takes a look at, literally, big typographic statements on the web.

The Powers of Seven, a poster exhibit featuring 21 silkscreen posters, designed by some of Spain's best, on the theme of seven printed in black and orange. (Navigation is a little wonky, but well worth the stumbling). [Via Quinta Tinta]

Spam e-mails repurposed in some form of high design is nothing new, but it never gets old either: Spamflet, posters on the street, and Marian Bantjes gets in on the action as well.

A brief image gallery of Mai 68, l’affiche en héritage, an exhibition in Paris of posters created around the May 1968 student protests. [The link is a Google translation, here is the original link for anyone that rocks the French]

Not exactly sure what this is for, but it's typography and it's made out of foam.

This version of Photoshop is, literally, hanging from a thread. (Click on "Next" image once you get there for a better view).

It's worth making a trip to Beijing if just to see Greenpix. The solar-powered LED media wall by Simone Giostra & Partners & Arup.

This is a great commercial by Brand New School for Zune, using faux album covers to construct a sentence.

Alexander Girard's prolific designs for the restuarant La Fonda Del Sol.

The winners of the 2008 Society of Publication Designers competition. [Via Quinta Tinta]

A hefty collection of "Made in..." clothing labels. [Via Fabrica]

Britain's Channel 4 has created a sculpture made out of printing plates gathered from newspapers and magazines.

Lovely collection of milk bottles. What is it about milk bottles that is conducive to sweet, sweet typography? [Via Design Observer]

Lacoste has seen the future of tennis, and it will be blindingly overexposed. No wonder the dude needs those full-face sunglasses.

Great collection of work by Australian firm Chase & Galley. [Via Manystuff]

"THIS WEEK is distributed for free and self-published. It has a fictional nature consisting only of newspaper headlines that are taken out of their context — lacking any geographical, political or time-related reference. The headline becomes a container for new thought — triggers based on what you may have read in newspapers before."

The wunderkinds over at Threadless continue their rise to prominence, landing on the cover of Inc. magazine. Full article here. [Via Coudal]

This Quip is way off character, but this hotel in Spain's Bardenas Reales National Park is simply spectacular and breathtaking (and I don't throw around these adjectives freely) — the signage is pretty cool too. [Via Evasee]

Great video (done for Samsung) featuring a handful of optical illusions brought to life. [Via Motionographer]

Yves Peters, typographer and writer, brings us two gems in his Unzipped blog for FontShop: An in-depth view at the it's-about-darn-time FF Meta Serif, and… / an interview with the makers of the Typophile Film Festival opening titles that just received a coveted Silver Pencil at the One Show.

ABC.com's World News Webcast takes a look at Presidential candidates and their typeface choices, with color commentary by the eloquent Brian Collins.

Louise Sandhaus presents Earthquakes, Mudslides, Fires and Riots Exhibit: California and Graphic Design, an exhibit meant to "examine and celebrate a raucous gathering of smart, off-beat, innovative, ground-breaking graphic design from the 'Left Coast' between 1935-1985." May 16 through July 13.

The venerable ICON illustration conference comes to New York this July.

So you know: Jenny Joseph, and not Annette Bening, is the model behind the Columbia Pictures logo. A few other tidbits in this look at the "big six" studio logos.

One cover from each decade of Vogue UK. [Via Bevel and Boss]

It was only a matter of time before this happened, a blog devoted to the ampersand. [Via HOW]

"The 5 Rules of Book Cover Design," a short video feature of John Gall, designer and creative director for Vintage & Anchor Books. [Thanks to Felix for the link]

Some classic cartoon characters drawn as senior citizens. [Via BoingBoing]

In regards to Quip No. 17 on the right side (why won't food critics acknowledge design?), Steve Heller would appreciate that in New York magazine's review of New French restaurant, Maira Kalman's work (a mural and her handwriting on the menu) are properly acknowledged.

Children's drawings recreated as photographs. Wonderful. [Via Drawn]

Packaging for a new Vitamin-powered beverage called Activate provides the impression of dropping that flaky fish food into a water tank. Yum. Clever though. [Via BuzzFeed]

Magtastic, a new blog devoted to all things magazines. [Via MagCulture]

"Understand the real value of money." A nice print ad series looking at the Yen, Euro and Dollar bills and what they are built of.

Pretentious or inspired? Powerhouse advertising agency Fallon is calling all creatives who work or have worked there to fork over their awards to be melted into a new sign. You decide. [Via Creativity]

All the presidential candidate logos from 1960 to today.

Oh my, I feel a little weak in the knees after seeing the new Penguin collection of Ian Fleming's James Bond series. Make sure you click on the image of the spines towards the bottom of the page; sexy. [Via HOW]

Windows Vista + Volkswagen logo = Remixed logos! [Via Dark Roasted Blend]

Pretty funny. Letters to Loveliza: Daily Design Questions Answered Firmly. [Via I Love Typography]

In case you missed this: Brand Tags, a site that gathers quick impressions about what a brand means. Sounds better than a focus group to me.

Creative Time Presents Playing the Building: An Installation by David Byrne at The Battery Maritime Building.

"...a sound installation in which the infrastructure, the physical plant of the building, is converted into a giant musical instrument."

Election Campaign Soundtrack For just 39.97 you can have your own royalty-free background track. "Portray strength, confidence, dependability and pride with this brilliant collage of orchestral flourishes and military rhythms. The ideal music track for news updates and global events."

Other deal closing hits such as Feature Presentation, Friday Feeling and Nasdaq are available at MusicBakery.com.

"Good Design is all about making other designers feel like idiots because that idea wasn't theirs." That's one way of looking at it. [Via ffffound]

Really Good Images. Forgotten stock photos and 20th century flotsam.

Print Liberation: The Screen Printing Primer looks like a great book. But even greater is the trailer promoting it. [Via Drawn]

Very engaging, interactive site about typefaces: typeSQL. [Via SwissMiss]

The winners of the 2008 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards have been released. Congratulations to Scott Stowell and Michael Bierut. Pats on the back to all the finalists.

These are delightfully creepy: A set of critters built out of reading glasses for a new series of eyeglasses by Swedish Oscar Magnusson Spectacles. Motionographer has a hi-res Quicktime as well.

The ultimate guide to Moleskine. [Via Brandflakesforbreakfast]

The second edition of I Love Typography's über popular 15 Great Examples of Web Typography. Quipsologies was included in the first edition, and we are happy to report that UnderConsideration was bestowed the honor this time around.

The African Activist Archive Project, "which seeks to preserve for history the record of activities of U.S. organizations and individuals that supported African struggles for freedom […]" has a great collection of buttons and posters revolving around this issue.

TXTNASHUN (read "Text Nation") is a project by the students of the Art Institute of Houston that questions the preponderance of text messaging language, "We illustrated this by taking monumental speeches and translating them using today's common shorthand and colloquial Internet speech". See all images here, or try to look at them in a MySpace context. Like, OMG.

Neither Hitler nor Stalin, tanks or bomber planes take as many lives as malaria, as depicted in these mosquito infested print ads (more ads in the series on the right column).

This is not too current, but still cool: Video of Drew Hodges, founder and creative director of SpotCo (who do all the cool posters for Broadway shows), talking about the posters they presented for the 2006 production of Lestat.

The rockin' — how can anything not rock with Black Sabbath's Iron Man? — opening titles to Iron Man by Prologue Films' Danny Yount. [Via Motionographer]

Video on how the CBS eye logo came to be, with guest appearance by Lou Dorfsman.

A hefty list of information graphics resources at newish blog Design Label. [Via ffffound]

100 food products photographically compared between what's yummily shown on the package and what you actually get. [Via VIBE]

Videos of the Walker Art Center's Insights Lecture Series have all been gathered in one place for your viewing pleasure. Includes Marian Bantjes, Ed Fella, Project Projects and more.

The typography comes alive (sort of) in the latest "Priceless" tv campaign from Mastercard. (If it's not playing upfront, select "Title Safe?" from the ad menu).

Chicago-based design firm, Firebelly, is hosting its first design camp and is looking for young applicants: "Two weeks of intensive collaboration with an awesome nonprofit client to address a social justice issue, strategize + design the solution and see it all the way through to print." This is a great cause, hosted by a great, caring firm.

Gum Art: Michel Delgado takes it from the Sidewalk to the Canvas.

What's Flower Power for the computer? This very unique 'computer' could come to a desk near you. [Brought to you by Dell computers.]

A good typographic overview of some recent movie posters over at the FontShop blog.

Self-promotion knick-knack for a proofreader, nice eraser.

SmashLab brings you A Primer in Social Media. A great read if all you can muster is "that thing kids do these days" when asked what social media means.

26 hand-drawn web sites. [Via Coudal]

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Difficult is worth doing Channel 4 broadcasts live TV ad

Google has a new favicon .

Easy drinkin',

Paper. It's what's for dinner.

Brush up on your Blackletter

Library of old trade books: Make sure you check out the old Printing trade specimens

New York magazine examines the melting-ice-cream-on-book-cover-design trend .

Maybe a little late to the party , but awesome anyways.

The exact center of the internet.

Courtesy of Stumble!

Retro poster design for the retro voter - analysis of Scott Hansen's Artists for Obama poster. Overly symbolic, or perfectly in tune with its audience?

It has been some time coming but it's here, a comprehensive exploration into what is ‘Social Design’ [From the team at socialdesignsite.com ].

Minimalism is everything that you need, nothing that you don't.

Hammer Horror stamps issued by Royal Mail

believe it or not... NYC and London now linked by a tunnel

The Chicago International Poster Biennial is expecting untold thousands of entries but only 100 winners, so 36 Point has launched a Flickr Group and online slideshow built to hold those .tif files that are required of the entry process.

THE T-SHIRT ANIMATOR: SO ME
Check out the work of So Me, the t-shirt designer for the video for the 'D.A.N.C.E.' song by Justice.

1950's Spanish sci-fi novels

Turning old books into handbags

'This is not brand loyalty. It’s brand acquiescence.' Rob Walker wonders, can a dead brand live again?

A couple of grammar enthusiasts are crossing the country fixing your typos. A Chicago Tribune story here and a blog with pictures here.

A healthcare company has decided to humanize medical devices with a new logo/mascot. It is a 7' pee cup.
http://www.peteyandpokey.com/

The Australian Graphic Design Association's Awards 'Call for Entries' takes a controversial slant in it's concept.

An interview with type designer Stefan Hattenbach.

Logo equations (or why designers need to know maths).

Norge goes Norse .

Winning Posters of the Good 50x70 competition.

Adrian Hanft has just launched Font Burner . It’s the easiest way to add great fonts to your website.

Its been doing the rounds this week, but its too good not to mention here - The Day There Was No News .

A little bit of Alan Watts animated by the South Park guys.

I freelanced here for four days! Good folks, Sender in Chicago talks about creating the Obama brand.

New Apple Store in Boston doesn't look as cool as the one on Fifth Avenue in New York , but still pretty sweet.

Totally awesome. A graffiti history of evolution.

A geek site for the girls

Important words of advice for all our new graduates...

Sci-Fi flicks that got science right.

Jaunās Gaita, a Latvian magazine turns 50 and shares 50 years of their covers through the decades. Via Coudal.

Crazy? Or maybe genius? Wooden Laptops and iPhones may just be the new exploitation of the 'Green' in all of us.

I am leaning towards crazy with a hint of 'Green' exploitation and woodgrain trendiness.

A wonderful organization of organization.

53 years of Latvian magazine - Jauna Gaita . Amazing covers! How did I not know about this?

A beautiful slideshow to preview a new font by Veer

Public Art Fund presents Olafur Eliasson’s The New York City Waterfalls. (Via. SwissMiss .

Behind The Scenes of Exquisite Web typography - Part Three .

Reclaim your space: Debrand your home!

The Labels Project , by Luca Pizzaroni.

LINK: I AM HER

hilarious - don't copy that floppy

nice pieces at RetroThing

Ohio University's IM DESIGNThesis Show Blurbs. more to come soon...

New site showcasing brilliant work from around the globe.

CP is an effort to fight mediocre design by bringing together remarkable talents.

Letraset in collages...

Tag the Web. Promotion for the new Atmosphere album When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That S@!t Gold.

Interesting scatter plot of personal Twitter usage over time.

Steven Heller asks Why don’t prominent food critics write about the entire experience, graphics and all?

Pitching to "define" the future of Graphic Design, the NEW VIEWS 2 symposium and exhibition (London College of Communication) is in the diary for this July.

Drawing lessons on DrawSpace.com

Where do you do what you do?
WHERWEDOWHATWEDO

The Design & Typography Group on Facebook reaches 10K members!

Gastrotypographicalassemblage

Smashing Magazine: Excellent Book Covers and Paperbacks .

CreativeForACause.org - collaborative resource for educators of Visual Communication.

Design Conferences: Isn't it time we demanded more? - Ricky Poynor

Partisan Wars: Episode II The Empire Strikes Barack

Mexican movie posters from the 40s and 50s.

A transcript of the witty dialogue of Design Q & A, a film by Charles and Ray Eames

wow , no better spokesperson can be had...

Yes, Everything.

An Interview with type designer Nadine Chahine.

I Dream of Cake.

Yeh, I want one.