A frame of Super Mario Bros. immortalized in 17,000 color pushpins. [Via BuzzFeed]

From The Department of Things I didn't Know: The Playboy Bunny costume (fluffy tail, black ears, tuxedo tie) is protected by U.S. patent number 762,884. [Safe for Work]

"A new [lunch] bag each day for my kids. I'm the dad. I make these during my lunch break." [Via Drawn]

Whitman by Kent Lew, one of my favorite serif type families, just got more styles, weights, widths and even a display companion. [Via I Love Typography]

FontFeed kicks off the holiday season with a few recommendations for typographic gifts.

The Birka Jazz Archive has an amazing image collection of record covers organized by label. The site does not work properly in Safari.

A series of ten postage stamps celebrating classic British design (the Mini, the Underground map) will begin circulating in January.

Bryony and I are extremely proud to announce that Women Of Design: Influence and Inspiration from the Original Trailblazers to the New Groundbreakers, a book we worked on for almost a year, is now officially on the market. An arduous but fulfilling task that celebrates the work of some of the best designers, writers, editors and thinkers in the world of graphic design. We have put together a comprehensive one-page preview web site that you can visit for an overview of the book or you can skip the formalities and purchase it from Amazon. We hope you enjoy it, whether you buy it, borrow it, flip through it at the bookstore, or even if you just use the "Look Inside" feature at Amazon.

Photographs of 116 beer bottles and cans from around the world; pretty great packaging showcase. [Via Dark Roasted Blend]

Clever video promotion for Google Docs: "4 people worked together simultaneously on a single Google Docs spreadsheet. Each cell in the 100 row x 186 col spreadsheet was filled using 18 different colors. The entire process was captured in time-lapse." [Via Dark Roasted Blend]

Neuro-scientists discover what designers have known all along: Kerning matters.

After blogging about their creative process, johnson banks unveils the final designs of their whiskey barrels project for Glenfiddich.

Another one of those great business cards round-ups; hard to get tired of these. [Via Nice Fucking Graphics]

The Dark Lord of Logos
In the last 20 years I have drawn more than 7,000 logos, mostly for black- and death-metal bands from all over the world.

The all new, FF Trixie High Definition, a type family consisting of more than 17,000,000 vector points.

Have a question? Designers Ben Barry and Frank Chimero will both answer it, through their lovely new web site, Questionable Characters.

Video interview with Shepard Fairey.

The Macrophenomenal Pro Basketball Almanac: "Within the pages of this tome, NBA hoopery collides with Japanese noise-rock, municipal politics, experimental zoology, Belgian surrealism, and behavioral economics like never before." This books looks really amazing, great illustrations. [Via Drawn]

A fun new promotional video for AIGA, the professional association for design, produced by the talented TV Land Brand Creative Group.

A handy chart of different points of view on the glass half-full or half-empty. [Via ffffound]

On-line banner ads that work: 23% of people that clicked on fundraising banners for Obama registered to vote. See more numbers and the banners at Al Designs > Click on Work. [Thanks to Grant Barrett for the link]

The web has engendered a strange attraction towards photography of abandoned places , so if that kind of thing rocks your boat here are some great photographs of abandoned amusement parks in South Korea.

A new way of looking at Quentin Tarantion films: "Each poster explores character interaction within scenes, displayed using a circular mapping system." [Via Nice Fucking Graphics]

Chinese calligraphy… done with black ink on nose. [Via SwissMiss]

Photo of the now-17-year-old Nirvana baby recreating (no penis this time) the famous Nevermind CD cover. [Via Design You Trust]

Sketch by Pablo Picasso of a poster for the 1926 Bal Banal, a dance benefit for Russian artists in Paris. Here is the context for that image.

What a Lovely Name is a web application that not only helps you generate a baby name based on tags — cute, wise, quirky — and a combination thereof but it also generates a (relatively) custom logo that you can then magically export to zazzle and get all kinds of merchandise.

The Designers Review of Books, "a selection of books for the creative mind." [Via Veer]

After all these years… Mrs. Eaves finally gets a bold italic. [Via I Love Typography]

Great poster by Ken Carbone to celebrate the 70th birthday of Swiss designer Fritz Gottschalk. [Links to PDF]

"Flavor," made out of Marlboro cigarettes. [Via Share Some Candy]

A collection of all ACME products from Warner Bros. cartoons — get some earthquake pills for when a client meeting is going bad. You could also get the official printed catalog.

Very nice packaging for this German wine-in-a-box. Click through the left-hand navigation to see all the variations. [Via SwissMiss]

Promotional video for a new residential building designed by Herzog & de Meuron in Manhattan which proves that economic crisis or not, some people will still drop millions of dollars to live in a pretentious apartment building.

A mosaic collage of Obama, composed of 600 cover images from around the world. [Via BuzzFeed]

Time to take the Coroflot Design Salary Survey to make sure it's as useful a resource as it always is.

The FIT Visiting Artist Program continues its great line-up with William Drenttel and Jessica Helfand next Thursday the 20th. And, as always, the poster by Rocco Piscatello is pretty awesome.

Aesthetic Apparatus gives you some alternatives to the "Sorry, we are Closed" sign. [Via HOW]

Some people, like my wife, love to highlight. This three-style highlighter would probably be the best gift ever.

The typographic stylings of Seb Lester. [Via I Love Typography]

Did you hear the good news care of the Yes Men?

Quarter Pounder. Period. [Via Brandflakesforbreakfast]

Simply, wow: The winning entry for a contest to design a 5 euro commemorative coin with the theme "Netherlands and Architecture."

The SFMOMA introduces ArtScope, a pretty sweet on-line viewer to explore more than 3,500 items from their collection all in one fell swoop. [Via Design Observer]

Another great resource from The Dieline: The Package Design Agency Directory, listing packaging firms from around the world.

Photos from House Industries opening night for "Letters & Ligatures" at Shepard Fairey's Subliminal Gallery in L.A. I was very curious what a type show at a gallery would look like.

A vote that matters the most now: Is Graphic Design Art?

A very interesting new competition is now accepting entries: TITAN, the Illustration in Design International Competition is looking for entries that explore the dynamic between design and illustration; it has a great international jury, and it's also rather generous giving away a total of €28,000 distributed to the winners; organized by the always ambitious Superior School of Art and Design (ESAD) in Portugal.

Early Star Wars storyboards. [Via Drawn]

All the logo revisions by Build for Gary Hustwit's upcoming Objectified documentary. And other great stuff at their new blog.

Drawings and markings people make on dollar bills. [Via Dark Roasted Blend]

Todd St. John at 222 Gallery in Philadelphia—opening tonight. Beautiful.

An interview with Justine Nagan, director of the documentary Typeface.

The PhotoShop user interface made out of real-life objects. [Via Design you Trust]

The Austin chapter of AIGA will be hosting a Polaroid Scavenger Hunt this coming Saturday, November 8. With Polaroid being discontinued this is a great way for one last hurrah: People will be given Polaroids, asked to take pictures around ten Austin destinations and submit their best efforts, that will then be shown in a gallery and published in book form. What a neat idea.

Quiz time: Of these, logos which ones are for hair care products and which ones are for digital audio? I got 12 out of 14. [Via HOW]

Pentagram's "groovy, retro" redesign of The Atlantic scores a sweet spot on New York Magazine's Approval Matrix.

The $200+ New York Times on Ebay.

"Under New Management," a swell t-shirt to celebrate the election. [Via Tcritic]

A watch for math enthusiasts.

A blog documenting "Employees must wash hands" signs. [Via BuzzFeed]

"Loew's Grand Theatre on Peachtree Street in Atlanta — which showed Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films almost exclusively — kept two artists on staff, Charles Reese Collier and Sid Smith. They made posters — unique works of art, really — with chalk and paint for each new film." [Via Design Observer]

Another great Obama illustration, contrasting with the forty-three white presidents that came before him. [Via Tcritic]

A great collection of editorial cartoons on Obama's victory. [Via Drawn]

Celebrate yesterday's win with some Obama-inspired tea. [Via Idea Fixa]

Pretty great work by ultra:studio. [Via Evasee]

The Twitter Vote Report. Report long lines, fraud, etc. Fairly incredible to watching it explode in real time.

The New York Public Library is about to be Fostered.

What do anger, joy, fear, sadness and love feel like? What color are they? Where in your body do you feel them? A graphic survey and results. [Via Dark Roasted Blend]

What's your face during critiques: Bored? Tired? Perplexed? Express it with these handy buttons.

Pantones 128, 200 and 292 go trick or treating.

The Economist reaches out to college students in the Philadelphia area through the number one food group: Pizza. [Via Direct Daily]

This Wednesday, if you find yourself ambling through New York's Lower East Side, stop by the fifth year anniversary party of Design Observer.

Sketches and final versions of Marvel Comics covers by John Romita Jr. [Via Drawn]

Posters of cabs photographed from above from a few cities around the world, I wish there were more.

Bastardised is the book compilation of all the designers that took a shot at designing Bunch's "B" identity. You can see most (if not all) of the entries on their web site too. [Via Thinking for a Living]

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In case you're still searching cool stuff for Christmas - Vinny Lou makes the most original & silly wall decals.

Take a spaceship tour with retro Space Travel Posters by Steve Thomas - VERY COOL

Sorry, I know it's only the day after Thanksgiving, but cool design stops for no holiday: Vintage Christmas Emphemera , compiled on D*S .

A way to save money in the current economic downturn, network with other designers, and get involved in the community. HQ Designhouse .

Artist Bobby Neel does PHOTO SURGERY - watch the aging process - very cool

THE ICE HOTEL is a Swedish Frozen Treat . It is made entirely of ice by some very clever artists,and the place to stay when you're in Sweden. Unbelievably JUST COOL.

Fonts: The Big, Bold and Beautiful

Artist Carl Warner cooks up some incredible edible landscapes in his surreal world of broccoli trees, salmon seas and pepperoni highways . It's imaginative, amazing and JUST COOL

I wrote up a post linking to a handful of the best design-related images from the Google/Life archive . The best part is this just scratches the surface.

Cavemen working in James Bond like headquarters - a stunning example of architecture you have got to see to believe - it's JUST COOL!

Forest for the Trees . Inspiring, creative photographs of single trees in natural environments.

It's already been a week since the new One Laptop Per Child G1G1 project launched on Amazon! Donate a sweet XO laptop, and also receive one.

all because of a rat - this derelict pub sold for almost a mil - Banksy's best Rat Art yet. He's JUST COOL

Day in logos - Boston Edition - a look at life in the city

Contain your photos, videos, and audio with Kontain.

What you should do with all those old LPs - art from music - Sleeve Face 'em! - JUST COOL!

Here's an interesting one: Navigate Eric Chan Design by shaking/tilting your MacBook.
via NotForPaper

The most dreaded dreadlock in the world - the longest hair - is it alive? JUST COOL though.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Graphic Design .

Chewing Gum Wall Art - but in your loose meat sandwich? - eeew

if you chew it they will gum

Kirk and Scotty never wore these. Maybe Mr. Spock did though. Blingy Star Trek oven mitts from Billionaire Boys Club. JUST COOL

Not sure I'd use this site , but I like the design.

Interesting to note that it's all uppercase type.

Here's to automotive design leading the way to carbon nuetral practices. I'll take one! Nissan Nuvu Concept

At San Francisco Ballet, recycling is no laughing matter.

Obama Copycats

Life has made their massive photo collection available online with Google . Amazing reference.

Oh, no. The numbers say it all. "9,211 creatives at work / 102 open projects / 90,099 entries to date / 1,340 projects to date / 67 average entries per project" [Link Corrected, Ed.]

Circa 1963's limited edition Pantone color shoes . How many pairs made... 1,963, of course.

Crossdresser dog is going 50's glam at JUST COOL DESIGN

Art. Lebedev reinvents traffic lights by turning them square .

A new resource for top shelf web design: NotForPaper

A catalog of visual interestingness .

"Handy" gloves packaging .

A sneak peak into the docks of designers

Cool visual thesaurus

You can buy the software as a holiday gift here .

Billboards Get Eco Friendly

Hi Res Youtube videos. Good to know.

What happens when you're discovered to be ripping off other people's design work and claiming it as your own? this .

Get your Obama action figures , kids!

As part of the new brand identity of the Dutch government a corporate typeface is introduced. The typeface Rijksoverheid Sans & Serif is designed by Peter Verheul.

The Unfinished Swan is an interesting take on a video game. The player uses splattering of black ink to navigate through a completely white environment... a designer's dream.

In regards to No.21, I believe the "confusion" has turned to disgust.

Personal Views is a unique series of conferences that brings together groups of designers, writers and educatiors from the world of graphic design. The series examines contemporary definitions of graphic design by asking professionals to talk about some of their values and objectives in the field.

http://www.esad.pt/personalviews/

My favorite features a presentation by Paula.

Enough with the Pantone Kitsch Already!!!

Stamp Design by Type Designers

DNA gets a new visual language

The results of FutureBrand's student competition "Brand America" are up now and so far students are " confused " by the results...

interesting roundup of wine bottle design

Check out some fresh custom interior graphics of a game/mobile/web development company based in Slovenia.

The first pair of gloves to be designed specifically for touchscreen devices like the iPhone and iPod Touch?

Pepsi re-brand backlash and thoughtful analysis from a pro designer. He gives 5 reasons why the new Pepsi Logo is terrible.

High-def photos of Hard Rock's epic memorabilia collection are now available as embeddable widgets -- just like YouTube videos. (If you haven't already, you'll be prompted to install the Microsoft Silverlight 2 plug-in to see.) Read about the new widget feature here .

How did your paper cover the election? First pages from around the world. Obama makes headlines

OMG Obama design pretty much sums it up. Shirts available here. All proceeds to Planned Parenthood.

The Washington Post has a very original interactive 3-D map of the election results . (Be patient... It takes a while to load!)

President Elect Obama's Victory Speech as a wordle
From wordle.net

Roundup of 2008 election graphics

Past vs Present

What if the whole world could vote

New York Times tracking electoral mood with election word train

Are you a design student? Think you stay up later than other design students? We're trying to figure out what exactly the average day of a student looks like. Go here and help us figure it out!

Presidential campaign logos through the years.

bad realtor graphics .

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's another amazing alphabet!

http://www.flickrfolio.net , a free service providing hosted portfolios for graphic designers, which feeds images in from Flickr

Freedumb isn't Free!

FAUND #2 published featuring Oliver Laric, Samuel Nyholm, Chris Coy, Sorryimissedyourparty, Justin Kemp.