We Just Live Here gives us legal residents (not yet citizens with the right to vote) the thrill of voting. Of a modest 100-plus votes, 86% has voted for Obama. [Via SwissMiss]

Very cute Halloween poster for Goodwill, dressing up its iconic logo. [Via Monoscope]

Related to a previous Quip, Yves Peters takes a comprehensive look at the many faces of Dexter, from its Shepard Fairey-designed poster to its imitation of mainstream magazines, including Us Weekly and Interview.

Kids' Halloween Candy Code: Like hobo markings, except it's all about the candy.

The winners of the inaugural packaging competition, the Pentawards, have been posted exclusively by The Dieline. Get ready to lose some time.

The men-only-roster attacks yet another conference.

Way better (or, at least, way more artistic) than mentos and Coke, check out this video of illustrator Emmanual Guibert drawing with water and then giving it some bam with black ink. [Via Drawn]

You can submit (or just watch) your favorite letter to this Flickr group. [Via I Love Typography]

Michael Johnson, all the way from the other side of the pond, takes a look at the design obsession with Obama and the lack of anything redeemable for McCain.

If everything in life were as rewarding as closing a pop-up browser window: The Pop Down Project provides you "X" stickers to place on things you would rather not see. [Via Design You Trust]

A nice taxonomy of political ads by Errol Morris.

The Some Type of Wonderful calendar and prints are now available, featuring artwork from lettering masters like Alex Trochut, Si Scott and Hellovon. [Via Design You Trust]

Four-color screenprinted reissue of Herb Lubalin's 1968 Vote poster.

Tired of Zapf Dingbats and Wingdings? Get your Obamabats here.

It's hard to believe that the annoyingly contagious Waaaaassup commercials are eight years old, as old as the current administration. The original crew of the Bud commercials teams up again for Change. [Via Motionographer]

He-Man and the Masters of the Univers.

Surprisingly nice compilation over at Smashing Magazine: Vintage and Retro Typography Showcase.

Does the end of the world near? Dr. Pepper teams up with Axl Rose to give a free pop on November 23, the release date of the 13-years-in-the-making Chinese Democracy. [Via NameWire]

Fun with coat hangers: 1) Turn them into magazine racks or, as Bryony found, 2) turn them into a stand for your pricey laptop.

Yes We Carve.

Maybe I'm the last one to know about this, but the icon for OS X's TextEdit application has a Steve Jobs quote in it.

White's Books is a new publishing headed by former Penguin Books designer David Pearson and publisher Jon Jackson has released their first four beautifully illustrated titles.

Authors William Lidwell and Gerry Manacsa are working on a book called Deconstructing Product Design and they are looking for people's opinions on 100 products.

It has little to do with graphic design, the pictures are lame, the spirit is too cheerleadery, and I rarely fly JetBlue, but this blog chronicling the opening of their T5 terminal at JFK is pretty cool. Also, for all of us laptop carriers (especially Macs that run out of batteries within 30 minutes), there are plugs everywhere! [Via Brandflakesforbreakfast]

What if cigarette packages were forced to all go with "plain packaging"? [Via ffffound]

Pumpkins for Obama. [Via Creative Review]

Didot on Didot, "I am a French Hooker." [Thanks to Cara Possemato]

Wow, super cool idents for MTV Australia. [Via Motionographer]

An interview with the very talented type designer and letterer Satoru Nihei.

The winners of Magazine Publishers of America's 2008 Best Magazine Cover competition. [Via Quinta Tinta]

It's your design sensibilities against Amazon's ratings, judge the book by its cover, and see who's right. [Via SwissMiss]

Posters by Tomorrow Partners: "Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, folks gotta vote." Couldn't agree more.

Great companion web site for the Craig Eliason's exhibition, Face the Nation: How National
Identity Shaped Modern Typeface Design, 1900-1960.

[Update: Link corrected] Nineteenth-century information graphics: Comparing the heights of mountains and lengths of rivers. [Via Dark Roasted Blend]

TV remote controls getting out of hand? Simplify with this easy design solution.

If, like others, you are concerned about what the lack of wearing an American flag lapel means, give Michael Bierut's typographic USA pin a try for $10, with proceeds going to Puppies Behind Bars.

Does Obama's logo represent the fulfillment of Muslim prophecy?

Jason Freeny explores the anatomies of the lego man, the gummy bear, and the previously quip'd balloon animal. It's a Flash site so you'll have to click around to see all three. [Via Design You Trust]

From The Department of Is This Really Necessary?: "Currently standing at over 700 metres tall, and not even complete yet, the Burj Dubai is a giant amongst giants, so it stands to reason that a giant building would require a giant logbook. But in honour of the remarkable building’s most notable attribute, the Burj Dubai log book will stand at 15ft tall." [Via Monoscope]

From October 20 to the 31, the Herb Lubalin Center of Design and Typography is pleased to present The Silkcreen Reclamation Project.

Try not to kill too much time on this and test your ability to line-up and find centers of objects: The eyeballing game. [Via Kottke]

Full-fledged and cootie-filled print ad campaign for the new Electronic Arts video game, Spore, by W+K.

A handsome logo animation for French production company Studio 37. [Via Idents.tv]

An appreciation of movie posters by a designer who would like to do some of them.

Way better than ITC Garamond, here is Garamond Powerline by Daniel Adolph. [Via Design You Trust]

And further clicking on No. 45 takes us to Graphic Design from the 1920s and 1930s in Travel Ephemera.

Erik Nitsche is best known for his General Dynamics work (and rightly so), and here is some interesting early work that is far from the science-laden visuals we are used to: Hotel luggage labels designed while he was in Paris (early 1930s) working for Maximilien Vox.

Meet Max Kerning. [Via I Love Typography]

Book-making-fiend John Foster's latest, For Sale: 200 Innovative Packaging Designs, is now available. It also has a Facebook page if you like your books with a dose of social interactivity.

When I started seeing "content aware scaling" come up in all the titles of my RSS reader I thought it was folks just being behind the times and were just catching up on a video that went around the internets earlier this year. I didn't realize that it is now a feature for Photoshop CS4. Whoah. [Via Subtraction]

I am not linking to the new Apple Macbook because it's some unspoken contract that designers have to praise everything Apple does, but the video introducing it is quite remarkable as Apple sheds the secrecy and shows how the machine has been put together. Plus, now we can all call Jonathan Ive "Jony."

Issue 1 of INSPIRE, a publication from the Adobe Experience Design team has a cool behind-the-scenes video of the making of Iron Man's "heads-up display" that Tony Sparks interacts with.

Cap'n McCain's & Obama O's are limited edition designer cereal brands produced in an edition of 500.

The upbeat Cap'ns Jingle claims that the cereal has "all the squares you need to succeed."

Virginia Postrel calls out Milton Glaser's Indignation.

A typeface Carrie Bradshaw would be happy to wear: Highheel-inspired!

The Waldseemüller Map was the first to label the "New World" America. Full story at The Altlantic.

Quick visual analogies for the presidential candidates and their veeps: round-up one, round-up two. [Via BuzzFeed]

The fabulous Rene Wanner has put together more than eighty parody posters of Shepard Fairey's original Obama "Hope" poster. [Via Design Observer]

Banksy's odd pet shop: A news feature, and the official web site. [Via BuzzFeed]

For the centenary of the London Underground logo, 100 artists were asked to create interpretations on the iconic roundel.

Gestalten continues to produce awesome books, the latest: Playful Type, Ephemeral Lettering and Illustrative Fonts. [Via TypeNeu]

The Ampersand Shoppe sells t-shirts with a big, white, silkscreened ampersand in ten typographic choices. [Via Tcritic]

Alternate movie posters that forego the visual hoopla and simply state the name of the movie and the product placements in left-justified, rag-right sans serif type. Man, The Bourne Ultimatum really sold out. [Via Veer]

Wow, full on branding for this designer wedding. [Via HOW]

30% of the profits from this cardboard box inspired duvet go to charities that help the homeless. [Via Sub Studio]

A compilation of Adobe Illustrator tutorials, some are a little hackneyed but there are quite a few that are actually helpful.

The inspiration behind Han Solo's Millenium Falcon? [Via ffffound]

If you are into colorful gradients, this Nike jacket is for you.

Winners of the Worldwide Logo Design Annual. [Via VIBE]

Ice Cream People: "The intent of this project to get the Ice Cream Person recognized among the greatest of supernatural beings, (right up there with Bigfoot, Lochness, and UFOs)." [Via Drawn]

Cool office spaces in Columbus, Ohio. [Via Brandflakesforbreakfast]

Mad Men takes place in the sixties. Mark Simonson uncovers some typography used in the show that didn't exist then. [Via Design Observer]

A collection of 1960s Mexican postage stamps turned into a bookmark. But beyond anything else, the stamp at the bottom, with all that Cooper Black? Drool.

Great work by Filip Tydén, including these clever "sky" stickers. [Via Manystuff]

Taking the tilt-shift technique — where the subjects of a photograph look as if they were miniatures — taken to the next logical step: Tilt-shift stop motion animation.

Having fun with TSA employees by running messages inside a backpack with stenciled metal plates. [Via SwissMiss]

Gimme a Chevron, gimme a BP, gimme a Texaco, gimme a Shell, what does it say? VOTE!

Preview web site for Steve Heller and Lita Talarico's lovely new book, The Design Entrepreneur

Great collection of work by Amsterdam-based Vanessa van Dam. [Via ffffound]

Draw your own conclusions about ODPM, the Online Drafting Pencil Museum.

"ITC Garamond = I am the wrong choice" and other admissions about popular typefaces. [Via Veer]

Fellow New Yorker and designer Mike Williams brings you 8 Days a Week, a comprehensive listing of all the design-related events happening in New York. [Via DesignNotes]

Washington Mutual had a good thing going with their colorful and typographically nice identity and print ads… until JP Morgan stepped in. [Via Gawker]

The English language sure lacks special characters as this poster attests. [Via I Love Typography]

If you are a fan, and happen to be in New York, Peter Saville will make an appearance this Saturday at Williamsburg's Spoonbill &' Sugartown bookstore.

To celebrate their 50th anniversary, the UK's Marketing Society has selected their top 50 brands, year by year. What's awesome is that each brand has a video of vintage commercials, like this stop motion ad for Lego. [Via Brandflakesforbreakfast]

Nice thesis by Italian designer Francesco Franchi on the state of newspapers and their design. [Via Quinta Tinta]

Not quite clear how to define the work of this designer, but lots of pretty three-dimensional works with paper and other fine displays of typography. [Via Design You Trust]

Sorry I'm late. I accidentally switched my alarm clock setting to Zapf Chancery. The Office Season Five kicks off with a typography joke in Pam's "Expressive Typography in New Media" course at Pratt.

Let's hope Mr. Zapf gets it.

What will happen to the approximately 3,500 pieces of art from Lehman Brothers' offices around the world? Maybe placed as banners in lampposts in Wall Street?

The New York Times on Fabien Baron: "The Art Director as Star." [Via Quinta Tinta]

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50 stunning Asian movie posters.

Plus International Design Festival from 5-8 November 2008 at Fazeley Studios, Digbeth, Birmingham, UK is a 4-day design festival featuring lectures, workshops and exhibitions from leaders of the design community.

designing for bond, james bond

Just For kicks: Color Inspiration - a cool post about the color schemes of graphic designers sneakers

An ad-free Waterloo Station?

A short blurb on bad ballot design (sadly, no visuals). [New York Times]

Uh best thing ever. Poladroid , the worlds new Polaroid making program. Fine tunes any image via drag and drop to the colorful world of polaroids. Mac only Via Swiss Miss

Rubik + Pantone = Rubitone

Silkscreen printed posters by Andy Smith

Op-Art: The Electoral Map , via the New York Times.

Some fantastic shots of tiny plastic people , by Vincent Bousserez.

Some design advice via hand lettered pages circa 1927.

The first "shoe shine" style service for cars.

Since it is World Series time. Seems like a perfect time to brush up on the MLB logo history. Wall Street Journal article about the man behind the mark . (Go Phils!!)

Apparently, now wearing your trademarked logo is illegal in California. WTF is next?

The UK's Vauxhall Insignia has launched the world's first grille and light shine service for your car

"If the world were..." great series of The World of 100

H20 and H2NOOOOOOO!

Your frozen broccoli is watching you.

Campaign ads from the notorious Batman/Penguin contest of '66. A lesson in print design from Gotham City's mayoral hopefuls.

New webcomic devoted exclusively to graphic design and kicking ass. Every Monday-Wednesday–Friday.

(Good to know) Tattoo symbols & design meanings index .

Got a craving for Obama ?

A 25 minute documentary on the London Underground Map . Includes comments by Milton Glaser and Ken Garland.

I [Heart] Packaging. Global packaging community. Best of all, it's free! Check out IstockPack

An ornithological rendering of Mrs. Eaves.

Inspired Reading
Just posted a little piece that looks at book recommendations from some amazing designers. Some real interesting suggestions offered up.

great collection of design "best practices" from
Rule29

following them on twitter.

National Organization for Women (NOW) Love Your Body Day poster contest winners. Great Message.

Gigantic collection of old posters .

No. 20 redux... A symbolic sign of the times: Commerce Bank . [Via Gothamist ]

Viral Blog Saladr
A slightly snide guide to the ever changing world of new media, including definitions of lame-ass buzzwords such as "viral", "blog", "saladr", and "tweet."

I think if this alphabet was completed ( "E" , "V" , "A" ) and turned into a font its only appropriate that it be called "Ambitious Sans"

Posters for the People arrives just in time for the 75th anniversary of the New Deal. It features nearly 500 of the best posters produced by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the 1930s and 1940s.

FF Rotis Sans, a typeface created by Olt Aicher. This is a photo showcase of Rotis Sans found everywhere around you... Did you have your Rotis today?

Obamarama is a Party and silent auction to benefit Barack Obama organized by a number of local designers and other creative professionals. The event will feature musical performances by Anti-Pop Consortium, Dirty on Purpose, Dragons of Zynth, Takka Takka, French Kicks, Cassettes Won't Listen and the comedy of Eugene Mirman. The silent auction will include items by Albert Watson, Another Magazine, Art Streiber, Dot Dot Dot, George Pitts, Grafik, Gravure, Mike Perry, Monocle, Other Music, Paul Davis, Rachel Mason, Stanley Donwood, and many others. Friday October 17, 2008.

New exhibition opening October 29th!
Original and new works from Eve Duhamel, Julien Vallée and Brent Wadden.

All info here : www.eveduhamel.com

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See you!

Interesting, well designed campaign by Chaz Madani geared to encourage bloggers to spend more time outside.

Finally a McCain campaign poster that incorporates the "Drill Baby Drill" energy policy .

The meticulously chaotic sketchbooks of Jenny Guan.

Sign of the times. McDonald's changes value menu because of financial crisis.

"Investigative journalist Greg Palast and voting rights attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have just released an investigative comic book voter guide Steal Back Your Vote . It lays out 6 ways they’re trying to steal the 2008 election… And the seven ways you can steal it back, in a 24 page downloadable graphic guide. It’s non-partisan, it’s humorous, it’s heroic, it’s helpful."

ISSUE #1 FAUND magazine

Through a selection of finders presented in a paper magazine and online-platform, FAUND aims to highlight the value of internet-found images. We find people who create finding.

Obama O's and Cap'n McCain's

Limited-edition presidential cereal!

Perhaps the best Obama poster yet

LINK: AirTraffic Worldwide simulation over 24 hours
Beautiful video.

The art and critique of opening credits

When doctors endorsed tobacco: a new exhibition at New York's Science, Industry and Business Library presents cigarette ads from the 1920s through the early 1950s. Read a review here . You can also view the exhibit online .

New York magazine profiles Poster Boy , the artist who's been mashing up the city's subway posters.

Unite Us poster. One of 5 winners of the Manifest Hope competition

Vintage Soap Labels [via www.pantuniestal.com]

Marilyn Monroe, Charlie Chaplin, Marlon Brando and James Dean in type .

Designers favorite fonts in use

The vernacular typography of Sarah Palin.

Eastern graphic design flirts with western aesthetics on these deliciously vintage Japanese matchboxes.

Via Pink Tentacle.

Just posted some photos of old signage and graffiti from a trip to KC.

Vintage Poison Bottle Labels.

Authentically inauthentic.

It's October!
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Amazing photographic process with a very large camera .