"My feed reader has come to resemble my nightstand, stacked high with books I have yet to attend to." A Working Library ponders eating versus feeding. 3.31
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Color-inspired linkage today. All 120 crayon names, plus color codes and fun facts. Brooke Inman's Everything Color Circle. And Pantone's 2010 color trend forecast for interiors. 3.30
The Ghost Signs Pool on Flickr. So great. Via Draplin. 3.30
Verlag 3 print by Carol Padberg. 3.30
Browsing through Mike Rohde's set of sketchnotes from SXSW. 3.30
Industrial alphabet poster by Kalle Hagman. 3.30
The first one's the hardest. A story by Jeremy Mickel about his first typeface design. 3.28
Dark Roasted Blend presents Nightmare Playgrounds, Part 3 with fabulous atrocities that may even top Part 1 and Part 2. 3.28
It's been nice to have Aan de dijk back these past few months. Spend a few minutes and check out Rachel's wonderful photography. 3.26
After the recent General Mills release of vintage design cereal boxes, I just had to revisit Dan Goodsell's box gallery at The Imaginary World. 3.25
Paintings by Aili Schmeltz. 3.24
Jim Denevan makes freehand drawings in sand. 3.23
Bike linkage today. Catch up on a few things over at Bike Blog NYC or Austin on Two Wheels, browse the Make: Bicycles archive, or check out furniture made of bikes and an interview with Bike Furniture Designer Andy Gregg. I personally recommend this one. 3.23
Today is a very beautiful, funny, absurd and inspiring day, thanks to Eric Baker's latest collection of images. 3.21
Photography by Georg Parthen. Via Human Resources. 3.20
The always impressive Art. Lebedev Studio tackles designing a better paper clip. 3.20
40 Logos that use Helvetica. Via Coudal. 3.20
Related to yesterday's light graffiti post, Julien Breton is doing amazing light calligraphy. Check out his incredible gallery of images. Via Ashley Simko. 3.19
I love, really love these people. Improv Everywhere reports on their latest mission, a gallery opening in the NYC subway. 3.18
Michael Bosanko creates light graffiti in long-exposure photographs. Via PicoCool. 3.18
Swissmiss highlights the fantastic Murals for the Library Initiative by Pentagram. Just gorgeous. 3.17
Jamie Gregory has designed a nice zoological typeface. 3.17
C-Monster with a great set of links relating to Jenny Holzer's show at the Whitney. 3.17
Signs, a short film with no dialogue between the main two characters, just a soundtrack. 3.17
A friend of ours at Coudal Partners, photographer Brian Ulrich, has been getting much well-deserved press lately and I just came across his work in Time. Here's a series he took of all of us at CP several years ago for a feature in Computer Arts Magazine. 3.16
Word It is now an official spin-off blog from the always great Under Consideration. 3.16
I recently got to check out a copy of David Gibson's The Wayfinding Handbook and found it fascinating. Michael Surtees has written a review. 3.16
Browsing the portfolio of Borja Bonaque, which is filled with inventiveness, restraint, and texture. Lovely. Via Grain Edit. 3.16
Video of the lecture given by Process Type Foundry recently at the Walker. Long, but worthy. 3.16
"Music covers are not graphic design, they communicate nothing." Peter Saville speaks at the D&AD President's Lectures. 3.15
Preservation Photography documents abandoned or soon-to-be-demolished architecture through photography. Via Dark Roasted Blend. 3.15
Harry Beck once endeavoured to design the map for the Paris Metro. Lots and lots of metro and map design in this article. Via Kottke. 3.13
The Complete Streets Act, to enable streets to be for more than just driving. 3.13
Gorgeous encaustic book cover assemblage work by Janet Jones. Via Monoscope. 3.12
The 50 States Project has brought together 50 photographers from across the USA, and they posted their first assignments this month. 3.12
Mid-century Children's Books, courtesy of the Ward-O-Matic. 3.12
Some great signage & wayfinding blogs from DesignWorkPlan. 3.11
Marc Johns designs a deluxe carrying case for an ampersand. 3.11
Pictures taken where there's strictly no photography. 3.11
Nevver is about "an image a day and an MP3 to go with it, for no obvious reason." 3.11
The Periodic Table of Typefaces. 3.10
Jim Zivic Design is all over the internets lately, and for good reason. Check out his coal tables. 3.10
Short film about the Musalman, the only handwritten newspaper in Asia and perhaps in the world. 3.10
Andrew Hyde on spec work. C'mon, people. Show some solidarity on this. 3.10
A whole bunch of bank logos. Via Draplin. 3.9
The Chicago Trib ran a story yesterday about Marfa, Texas, hometown of Donald Judd, art mecca, and home of some of the finest homemade tequila I have ever tasted. 3.9
This is a fantastic Flickr set of found design patterns collected from Google Maps by Sound of Design. Via Weightshift. 3.9
13 logo designers share their love of logo design. 3.9
Enjoying the thoughts and great typography over at Betatype. 3.8
Another interesting architect visit by Remodelista. 3.8
Typography and fire-spinning by Nir Tober. 3.8
Film the Blanks, an ongoing experiment in deconstructing and abstracting film posters. 3.6
São Paulo, a city stripped of its advertising. 3.6
Kuler by Adobe is an interesting way to make colour combinations. Via TypeNeu. 3.5
Read Between the Leading is an interesting new podcast. 3.5
The world's most iconic logo designers. 3.5
The recently launched Logo Designer Blog already has plenty of good things going. Check it out. 3.4
Been enjoying Hindi Rinny, a blog about South Asian typography. 3.4
Create some Word Clouds. 3.4
President Obama unveils new logos designed by Aaron Draplin, Chris Glass and Mode. Nice work, guys. 3.3
"The truth is that I probably developed a taste for collage listening to The Pixies, and reveling in all those magnificent album covers designed by Vaughan Oliver." Things We Love from H&FJ. 3.3
The eyeballing game, for all of us who just look at things. 3.3
Two pattern-related sources of inspiration. Geometric, a resource book, and a few designs by Verner Panton. 3.3
A list of 25 great wine label, bottle and package designs. 3.3
Browse the spectacular Modernism 101 book selection. Via ISO50. 3.2
Wanken posts album artwork from the Polish label Tonpress. 3.2
Jules Vernacular features found typography and signage. Right up my alley. 3.2
Liking these Lego business cards. 3.1
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