Taking @Font-Face, the CSS rule that allows you to use any typeface as live text for web sites, for a spin. Best experienced in Firefox 3.5 but also looks decent in Safari 4.

Chip Kidd picks his favorite seven book covers of the 2000s for Newsweek. [Via Design Observer]

Illustrator Berni Valenta tackles 100 pieces of cardboard.

The Tattoo Locations chart, explaining what the placement of the tattoo says about their owners. [Via DesignNotes]

Feeling dirty after using Comic Sans? Try washing off the feeling with this typographic soap. [Via SwissMiss]

For people that are chronically late no matter what, this is the clock for you.

If blog commenters had a magazine of their own: Here is the cover of Internet Commenter Weekly. First! [Via BuzzFeed]

Studio 360 asks Worldstudio to re-imagine the gay flag. [Via Design Observer]

The new blog, Identity Forum, starts off with a bang. And meatballs.

Spec Watch, going vigilante on design contests. [Via Logo Design Love]

Save Your Logo is a new non-profit organization that is partnering with corporations who have an animal depicted in their logo to help protect them. For example, Lacoste is one of its first partners and has committed to “the preservation of biodiversity on the planet by committing to the protection” of the crocodile. Great initiative. [Via VIBE]

A breast-shaped bottle of milky vodka. Yes, you read that right.

I personally know how cool this is: An inside peek of the The Herb Lubalin Center at Cooper Union, full of shots of Lubalin’s original drawings. [Via Draplin]

The Helvetica style no one asked for: Helvetica Pointed! [Via I Love Typography]

Nice chalkboard-driven identity for Swedish coffee shop, Kaffe. Other photos at the designer’s site. [Via Design You Trust]

What do 22,655 OS X folders look like colored and animated as an alphabet? Like this.

A proposed logo to let viewers know about product placement in German television.

Poster remakes are all the rage these days, so is a minimalist interpretations of Star Wars, Episodes IV – VI. [Via Evasee]

An interview with end title sequence director Jim Capobianco and animator Alexander Woo from Pixar on the wonderful end credits of Wall-E.

Ah, simpler times, when cocaine, opium, and heroin could be advertised with Norman Rockwell sensibilities. [Via Dark Roasted Blend]

This is not your grandmother’s calligraphy, this is virtual calligraphy. [Via Dark Roasted Blend]

The Uniform Project: “Starting May 2009, I have pledged to wear one dress for one year as an exercise in sustainable fashion. Here’s how it works: There are 7 identical dresses, one for each day of the week. Every day I will reinvent the dress with layers, accessories and all kinds of accouterments…” Very interesting exercise. [Via Design You Trust]

An alphabet in motion made out of yo-yos. [Via Motionographer]

What can you spell with the application icons from your dock? [Via NOTCOT]

?RU (read as What Are You?) is a new line of apparel that celebrates a new generation of mixed-race individuals.

Mucca Design presents their latest work for Brooklyn Fare in video form. Pretty funny. [Via The Skinny]

Examples of the best custom lettering of the first half of 2009.

“The designers were very surprised that I had no idea how to use an X-Acto knife and promptly had me cut 400 11×17 sheets out of large sheets of paper.” Andy Chen on life as an intern at the New York offices of Pentagram in Paula Scher’s team.

An ambitious stop-motion animation using 6,000 post-it notes about facing design deadlines. A few days late on this one…

I may have Quip’d the prequel to this: Here is the complete issue 2 of Herb Lubalin-designed Avant Garde. [Via Quinta Tinta]

A handy timeline of where we are in relationship to the events of some of the most popular sci-fi movies. Only six years away from Robocops roaming the streets!

Related to No. 46 below: Fallen Princesses, what if happily ever after wasn’t actually the outcome? [Via Kottke]

Simple and clever campaign for Comex, a Mexico-based paint company. I wonder if they cleared the rights for the characters…

“Jill & Matt met at work…” a typographic invitation.

MINE™ has an open call for entries for The Good Design Book, focusing on work that, is not just good, but does good. Be sure to see the six sections the book will cover, it even includes opportunities for design students.

Out of this 16, what kind of art student are (or were) you? [Via Drawn]

In this Levi’s for Kids campaign, a pair of blue jeans give new outcomes to popular fairy tales.

A type specimen passed from the collection of Jan Tschichold to Paul Rand to one lucky designer. [Via Design Observer]

For the 2009 Spring Tour of Flight of the Conchords, the duo commissioned a great series of 35 posters from some of the best. [Via Coudal]

“He superimposed the African-Canadian person onto the family cluster in the original photo. It was two photographs and one head was superimposed over the original family photo.” If you are going to Photoshop, Photoshop it right. [Via BuzzFeed]

Not something you see much of these days: Hype for Type is a new type foundry and retailer with exclusive typefaces by Si Scott and Alex Trochut.

A proposed improvement on street signage for bikers (and the cars that are bound to bump said bikers).

Neither Hitler nor George W. Bush are the last thing a guy would want to see right before putting on a condom, but these wrappers for Chinese company WPTT Contraceptive have apparently increased sales by 21%, so if it means safer sex, bring on the dictators and evil-doers! (Also SFW)

Check it before it goes away: The Wallpaper* web masthead gets a little kinky (SFW). More on the typographic ladies at Creative Review.

Is James Victore the luckiest (male) designer alive? Hand-lettering Bar Rafaeli’s body for the latest Esquire cover suggests that, yes, he is. [Via FontFeed]

The winners of the 2009 D&AD Awards. Related: Michael Johnson points out how awesome it is that the 26-year-old who designed the UK coins won, literally, one of the hardest awards there is to win, the black pencil.

Creative (hence more lucrative hopefully?) tip jars. [Via brandflakesforbreakfast]

Gigposters.com goes print with Gig Posters Volume 1: Rock Show Art of the 21st Century.

The nice folks at Plazm show their pitch of the redesign of Newsweek. If you ask me, it looks much more engaging than the actual, final result.

Cute poster campaign, with custom hairstyles for each, for a hair salon in Barcelona.

Great short by Imaginary Forces for Google’s Chrome browser. [Via Motionographer]

On Raymond Lowey and his design of Japan’s Peace cigarettes: “What really caught the public’s attention was Loewy’s design fee for redesigning the ubiquitous brand. Unheralded in any sector of graphic design in Japan, the project fee for Loewy designing the packaging was a crisp ¥1,000,000 — a fortune at that time.”

Because of AIGA…

More stop motion animation goodness: This time Audi gets busy with some cardboard and black marker.

Not officially graphic design related but, man, New York’s long-awaited High Line is downright amazing. Happy to see it actually happened, sad that I didn’t get a chance to see if before we left.

A Flickr set of Old Coupons. [Via Coudal]

At Apple’s WWDC event yesterday, attendees were treated to a giant wall of Apple displays showing a grid of iPhone app icons organized by color; as apps were downloaded from iTunes, the logos would pulsate. [Via Design You Trust]

Pretty clever and imaginative stop motion animation piece using only pegboard letters: TXT Island.

If you ever wished VAG Rounded had a Zoo weight, look no further than here. [Via SwissMiss]

The SOS t-shirt, because you never know when you will be lost in a deserted island. [Via Design You Trust]

So very tasty: Swiss Graphic Designers, a 1957 book, with a cover designed by Josef Müller-Brockmann, of an exhibit of Swiss Designers that toured the United States.

What kind of branding approach do you take: The Shotgun or The Sniper? Links to a PDF. [Via HOW]

Pretty sweet “Switches & Gauges” poster.

Just when you think Ale Paul can’t outdo himself, he goes and makes another beautiful and technically powerful script typeface. Hello, Adios Script.

“30 Artistic and Creative Résumés.” Seeing them all together is kind of seizure-inducing. [Via Design You Trust]

If you are in Indianapolis in August there will be what sounds like a really great exhibit, In An Expression of the Inexpressible, which “features contemporary international designers whose work showcases the current interactions of music and design.”

Dave Eggers on why and how print will survive: “To survive, the newspaper, and the physical book, needs to set itself apart from the web. Physical forms of the written word need to offer a clear and different experience. And if they do, we believe, they will survive.” [Via BuzzFeed]

An unnecessary mash-up but, what the hell, it looks great: “Classic records lost in time and format, re-emerged as Pelican books. Just for fun.” [Via Drawn]

Nice typographic result from this process: “In his ‘Colour Light Plays’ multiple coloured light sources were photographed through a cut-out mask. So we built a replica of his apparatus in the computer using Lightwave software.”

A montage of Crayola boxes over the years.

In case you missed it…not one, but two pitch-perfect Cleveland tourism videos. Sad, but hilarious.

Best earthquake preparedness web site ever. [Via Motionographer]

Fast Food is a series of photographs that “track the visual imprint made by the American fast food restaurant on our cultural landscape.” Click on Fast Food link. [Via Design You Trust]

Bizarre, edgy, pop, cool: Prologue Films does the titles for the 2009 MTV Movie Awards.

A 1970s deck of playing cards from the Israeli airline, El Al. [Via ISO50]

“How to Make a Dadaist Poem,” from the very old pages of a Push Pin Graphic

Are you feeling font-lucky, punk? Try shakeFont, an iPhone app that will randomly pick fonts for you that you can then download at your computer. (I am assuming they are all free fonts).

A look at some of the production artwork and animation tests for Pixar’s Up. [Via Drawn]

The book, A Better Tomorrow, that features the work of members from the QBN community is looking for a new publisher. Proceeds from the book will help Patrick O’Brien, one of the site’s original editors, who has been diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease and is producing a film about it. [Via TypeNeu]

Grain Edit shares some visual reasons why you should be excited about the imminent launch of House Industries’ Photo-Lettering site.

The story of Attik.

A Flickr set with all of GOOD magazine’s “Transparency” info graphics. [Via Design Observer]

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Regarding Quip #82 (to the left): @Font-Face just crashed my Safari v 4.0 ;(

Yo, the name of Gasprom's new Nigerian joint venture - Nigaz .

tiny art director wants daddy to go away on a trip

Exhibiting a mastery of the paste-up, the king of the comp: Able Parris presents a fresh desktop wallpaper for July.

On July, 3rd, 2009, in Astana will be open new football stadium with a sliding. In honour of this solemn action at stadium will pass a friendly match under refereeing 'great and awful' - Pierluigi Collina . For announced this event, the small outdoor advertising campaign has been spent.

its fun :)

The Divided Salli Chair , designed to naturally accommodate the human ::cough:: anatomy.

Stardust updates their website with a very visual approach.

New work and reel from Midwest motion house leftchannel.

Wonderful ceramic and textile illustration by Ireland based illustrator Lisa Connolly .

An interesting collection of doorbell instructions from homeowners on Flickr.

by Dave Gorman

Paul Rand tribute site .

Turning broken hearts into art .

New design studio Ammunition with a unique blend of product, identity and interactive formed by former members of Pentagram and MetaDesign

Proposed new cigarette packaging from Pentagram. Making a gross product pretty effing metal.

The Top 50 Award winning design agencies in the UK

Hey, we all like lists, right? Well here is a list of 50 of the top award winning design agencies in the UK, check them out for inspiration, both for web design and graphic design.

Top Graphic Designers

iPhone stencil kit from Design Commission. Sketch out iPhone interfaces with this handy steel stencil.

UPS holds contest, asks "what can fashion do for Brown?" with some interesting results.

Is it a web app or a regular iPhone app? Glyphs on your iPhone

To make a long story sho... hm, quip: end of last year polish city Białystok gets a new logo , someone notices it looks exactly like the logo of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center in New York, everyone in Białystok is outraged, agency prepares 5 alternatives and puts them up for vote , Białystok gets a new logo, end of story.

Winners announced at Design21's CELEBRATE DIVERSITY – a UNESCO logo competition. Everything you'd expect from a logo competition...yawn...

Some beautiful illustrations by New Zealand-based Kelly Thompson via Birdie & Me

For fans of Not For Tourists who've got iPhones / iPod touch, Manhattan now available! http://tinyurl.com/lcfcxe

The Subjective Atlas of Serbia - a nuanced and unconventional image of Serbia by Dutch designer Annelies de Vet is out now (+ PDF version available for download).

Use Their Work for Free? Artists Say No to Google (NYTimes)

Graphic and publication designer Dick Sheaff is sharing his amazing collection of ephemera along with some keen insight and history to help put things in context.

That's Right: It's A Gas!

Wow, the New Bohemia Signs Flickr is filled with hand painted sign goodness!!!

Nishant Kothary's Web Design from the gut.

An inspiration break Everybody Say Awww: Top 14 Animal Waves on YouTube

Do you know how to say "bird" in Esperanto? Linguist Arika Okrent uses her expertise in Esperanto and 499 other artificial languages—including Klingon—to come up with a list of ten fave invented words.

A collection of ER's, or as they should be called properly, Royal Mail’s Royal Insignia .

Poster ad and video from Piers Morgan around the UK launch of 'flame' , the fragrance from Burger King with a hint of flame grilled beef.

Handy if your a designer and/or if you've written an ebook and need to make it look fancy - ebook cover software .

banksy exhibition in bristol, uk

Just in case you missed it in the comments on the article Armin linked to in Quip No.43, life imitates The Onion .

Ridiculously gorgeous, geometric modern designs: PushMePullYou Design

Interview with the super talented Kevin Dart .

A great example: Jude Landry's Design philosophy

Pop Nihilism: Advertising Eats Itself
Really great article on Adbusters

A critique of some summer movie posters .

Top 10 Dramatic Animal Videos of all Time

yourlogomakesmebarf.com . No further description needed.

New York designer Rafael Esquer of Alfalfa Studio launches Alfalfa Seeds , a graphic t-shirt site. Part of the proceeds from alfalfa seeds will support scholarships for minority students at Art Center College of Design.

Japanese Monster Movie Baseball Posters

Nice interview with a great illustrator - Jerrod Landon Porter

Really cool blog about how post-processing can change an image .

Just released a spanking, new t-shirt "Support Your Local Comic Book Shop!"

A Great Example: Jude Landry's

Illegal Art vs. Illegal Advertising:
The Public Ad Campaign

Draw with type on your iPhone with a new app called Type Drawing . Pretty cool.

Stop motion goodness and sounds great soundtrack in a short library video: We Got It

Nicholas Felton classifies the flora and fauna living on the spines of our books .

The Wemsco Sousaphone Stand A mock Vintage Poster

Heinz Beanz creates the world's smallest microwave, at 150x160,190mm, the Beanzawave plugs into a USB port

Information graphics can mean many things. If a door is closed, karate chop it open.

Juan Larios makes an alphabet out of his mountain bike.

Please join us in San Francisco June 15–21, 2009 for “San Francisco Design Makes a Difference Week” presented by AIGA SF in partnership with AIA-SF, IDSASF & IxDASF! San Francisco Design Week events

Great insight from Sally Hogshead. http://www.radicalcareering.com/hogblog/?p=205

hiBubble... Beautiful bubbles ... it puts beauty into iPhone apps. [Links to iTunes]

Awesome Toy Story 3 teaser trailer , battling it out for the best logo design.

A cool set of images of Melbourne street art

This might be one of the best animated videos I have seen in quite a while. Beautiful old school influenced style. I've never heard of the band but it all works together nicely. Tap the foot, clap the hands.

Very cool trailer for The Beatles RockBand .

Didn't see this coming. Agency website made entirely with YouTube videos. Pretty cool.

I've really enjoyed using on my various laptops and computers the Desktop Wallpaper designs from the designer, Able Parris .

Very creative and imaginative designer.

Warm & Fuzzy - the future of the corporate logo. NYTimes.

Prolific woman puts together recipes, take stunning photographs of finished work, acts like it's no big deal: Dutch Girl Cooking .

Beautiful hand silk-screened greeting cards: Kinaloon (also with super sweet logotype).