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Also from Design Observer, today's images from Eric Baker, wonderful as always. 1.31

Like Michael Bierut, I've been devoted to keeping notebooks since becoming a designer, and it's great to see and hear how he's worked with them. 1.31

The World's Smallest Postal Service. 1.30

Paul-Rand.com, via CP. 1.30

Sergei Larenkov has merged images of modern St. Petersburg with photos taken during WWII. 1.30

Every so often, I browse photographs by Todd Hido. They give me ideas. 1.30

A Thousand Words, a short film by Ted Chung. 1.30

Keeping a close eye on the Volkswagen Hands-On Challenge where five intrepid souls are still mousing around, hoping to win. 1.29

Repainting NWA jets with the Delta Airlines identity. Check the video. 1.29

First Helvetica Haiku, then Font Haiku. 1.29

David Pache shares the process of a logo redesign project. 1.29

Derek Powazek reminds us that "If you can't figure out what you're looking at, examine what's around it instead." 1.29

More strange bikes. 1.29

Whenever possible, simplify. The $300 Million Button. 1.29

Hypefortype is a new online digital type foundry launching this year. 1.28

Faceout Books, a blog about book cover design. Via Design Info. 1.28

Every so often I like to check in on the new drawing schemes on my old bathroom wall. 1.28

The Places We Live features panoramic photos of slums, narrated by the people who live there. Incredible, via Kottke. 1.28

A Nikon D3 cut in half. 1.28

The NYT on Super Bowl logos. Thanks, Ted. 1.28

iLT on diacritics. 1.27

The Letter Museum in Berlin, via CP. 1.27

Illustrations from the children's book Eli, no!. Via Grain Edit. 1.27

Guy Kawasaki has posted some fabulous video clips and photos to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Macintosh. Wow. 1.27

Photosynth is asking for your photos in order to create a synth of the inauguration. 1.26

Christchurch Modern is a site listing modern buildings in Christchurch, New Zealand. 1.26

The Ministry of Type on brand conformity. 1.26

I've always loved subway destination scrolls for their brevity, clarity and sense of time and place. 1.26

Chris Glass posts a particularly nice Happy Anniversary to the Macintosh with a rundown of his old Macs. 1.25

365 Budapest is a photography project focusing on the typographic diversity of Budapest's street numbers. 1.24

The Pedestrian Project consists of performers modeling the generic images of people seen on public signs. 1.24

Enjoying Four Corners Dark, a blog about lo-fi and toy camera photography. 1.23

Anonymous Postcard. 1.23

Letters from children to President Obama. 1.22

Graphicology plans to do a Super Bowl Ad Live-Blog. 1.22

Speaking of redesign, how about running shoes? 1.22

100 metre long photograph by Simon Høgsberg. Via It's Nice That. 1.22

Arabic versions of retail identities and Arabic versions of packaging, via Brand New. 1.21

Aegir has a nice post about the appreciation of mundane beauty. 1.21

The Impossible Project may be succeeding. Plans to save Polaroid are taking shape. 1.20

Three times as many Gothams! I love it. 1.20

Is Obama really President? 1.20

An urban crop circle. 1.20

Portraits of Obama by schoolchildren. 1.20

Ten things that need to be redesigned. 1.20

Paula Scher gets serious. 1.19

Photographs of abandoned amusement parks in Asia. 1.19

CSS design gallery showing sites as viewed on an iPhone. Via Konigi. 1.19

Painted portraits of books. 1.19

A quote from the great Paul Rand. Thanks, Jason. 1.19

A letter to President Obama from a young designer. 1.18

How to say "My hovercraft is full of eels" in many different languages. 1.18

The United States of Logos. 1.16

Things Our Friends Have Written on the Internet 2008 is inspired, interesting and just beautiful. 1.16

Interesting idea: the portable bike lane. 1.16

Debbie Millman talks to Neville Brody on today's episode of Design Matters. 1.16

Extremely cool bottle caps. 1.15

Achatz and Keller: A Tale of Two Chefs. Via Signal vs Noise. 1.15

Aaron Draplin is headed to the Inauguration. Stay tuned for the play by play. 1.15

Bokeh Type. 1.15

They have a well-deserved following, and now a Flickr pool: Japanese Manhole Covers. 1.15

Google Maps adds public transit layer. Great idea. 1.15

Ace Jet 170 with a post about Fortunato Depero, possibly my favourite Futurist. 1.15

The Gap and Pantone join forces with a new shop. 1.14

Russian magazine Bolshoi Gorod asked kids, "What would you like to get as a present?". 1.14

Blown away by the artwork of Cristiana Couceiro. Wow. Via Gentle Pure Space. 1.14

You may have been wondering about inconspicuous vertical metrics. 1.14

This stunning photograph was taken with a six month exposure, by a pinhole camera made from a soda can and strapped to a lightpost. 1.14

Last week was so busy that I didn't manage a shout out to my new client Fizz who I'm enjoying working with. Thanks, all! 1.13

The 2009 Tournament of Books has been announced over at The Morning News by my favourite rooster. 1.13

The fray continues. Debbie Millman's Obsessive Branding Disorder II. 1.13

They're here! The British Design Classics Mint Stamps are on sale as of today. 1.13

Cartocacoethes is the compulsion to see maps everywhere. 1.12

Cabin on the Norwegian coast by Fantastic Norway. 1.12

More images of the Aurora Borealis. 1.12

Lego sushi. 1.11

Create a tilt-shift photo online. So cool. Via Andrew Huff. 1.11

Tad Carpenter does some really great work. 1.11

The new book by Marian Bantjes. 1.11

Some great interactive billboards for Sharpie. 1.9

A long overdue and nicely done redesign for MyFonts. 1.9

Film made from 3340 photographs documenting a trip to Japan. Pretty sweet. 1.9

An update on Ivan Chermayeff's Abandoned Gloves. 1.9

Last night was both awe-inspiring and unsettling here in Boulder. I spent the evening checking on friends, walking the footpaths near the hills, and capturing images. Many others did, too. 1.8

Lots of inspiration over at The Book Cover Archive. 1.8

Lomography by Nick and Tom. Via Monoscope. 1.8

Article on a project by architect Tom Kundig with some beautiful images of his work. 1.6

The recent and thoughtful branding of Greater Montreal. 1.6

Stunning architectural photography by Kim Høltermand. 1.3

A conversation with Malcolm Gladwell, via Matt at 37signals. 1.2

Where do you work? 1.2

Old but good advice on working creatively, via the Ministry. 1.2

The Blue Man Group starts a school, aptly named "The Blue School". 1.2

Winter in the woods with modernist style. 1.2

Photoset of light sculpture by Zaha Hadid. 1.1

Let there be light. 1.1