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A spectacular series of photos of the Dolomites. 4.30

Noted all over the web, but worth noting again, I think that the Official White House Photostream is a great example of the new administration's fresh take on communication. 4.30

Remodelista on Stable Café in San Francisco. 4.30

Collection of Posters from the WPA. Via ISO50. 4.30

H&FJ on my favourite typographic character and their middle name, the ampersand. 4.29

"The best camera is the one that’s with you." iPhone photography by Chase Jarvis, processed only using iPhone apps. Via DF. 4.29

"Do birds have a favorite font?" Type Nesting. Via CP. 4.29

Post by Grain Edit on Catalog Design Progress by Ladislav Sutnar. What a gorgeous book. 4.28

London Typographica Group photo pool. 4.28

"Mark Spurgeon of Preserve has been collecting and archiving images of hand-crafted signage found in New Zealand, Australia and elsewhere." Nice work. 4.27

"Sachliches" by Josef Schulz, and an interview. 4.27

Square America features excerpts from the annals of everyday life in snapshot form. Square snapshots. 4.27

Garages by Kim Høltermand. And, if you missed it a few months back, a previous link to Kim's work. 4.27

Antrepo is running a contest to design a new logo for Twitter. 4.26

Dead pixel in Google Earth. Via TMN. 4.26

What does the word "entrepreneur" mean these days?. 4.25

Great set of truck door lettering. Via Draplin. 4.24

A set of cover mashups I'd not yet browsed, The Modernist Editions of well-known album covers. Via the comprehensive list posted over at Kottke. 4.24

Trip @ the Denver Art Museum, tonight. 4.24

Ink Posters offer some gorgeous pieces that appeal in the realm of ideas as well as in the realm of images. Via Monoscope. 4.24

Typography from Henrik Nygren who created the identity for the BALTIC exhibition space for contemporary art. 4.24

Video for Oi Va Voi’s "Everytime" created with the help of a shredding machine. 4.24

American Idol for artists. There seems to be an insistence that an average person should be on par with a scholar when it comes to art, but somehow experts in other disciplines are actually experts. Will this project help people engage with art, or will it inspire the same old refrain? 4.24

H&FJ spot "a treasury of wood type online". 4.23

"Sketchbooks are not about being a good artist, they're about being a good thinker". Amen. 4.23

Had to do this sort of thing once for a photo shoot, and it was a blast. Wolff Olins logos made from objects and food. 4.23

Glyphish icons for iPhone. 4.23

Habitat 825 in West Hollywood. 4.23

London based design studio Accept & Proceed interviewed about their identity design for the Loop music festival. 4.22

Google Map typography. Via Swissmiss. 4.22

New, more fierce Detroit Lion premieres on a toy truck in the NFL store. 4.22

Great photo of Critical Mass, Budapest. 4.21

An inspired rider on an inspired bicycle. Inspired Bicycles team member Danny MacAskill doing a few tricks. 4.21

A serious collection of colophon logos and yet more colophon logos. Via Draplin. 4.21

The history of "the all-seeing eye" CBS logomark. Via Logo Designer Blog. 4.21

The case for and against designing a black and white version of a logo. In my opinion, the whole process is about seeking out and making visual the very essence of something, and it's hard to imagine seeking this quintessence while ignoring its simplest visual form. Via Cameron Moll. 4.20

Wilson captures words and letters from urban typography (road markings, billboards, rubbish, etc) frame by frame on 35mm film strips to spell out messages. 4.20

The art of the album cover by Alex Steinweiss. 4.20

Dark Roasted Blend on early monorails. 4.20

Tile motifs on the Victoria Line. Gorgeous collection. Via my compatriot DW at CP. 4.17

Beautiful photographic series of light writing in industrial spaces. See also the previously posted light graffiti and light calligraphy. 4.17

Great post about mid-century modernism in Pixar's The Incredibles. Via twittering Grain Edit. 4.17

"Colophon is an extrinsic enterprise in progress run by David Bennewith an begun in the summer of 2007." Via TypeNeu. 4.17

A photographic panorama of the death of a residential block in Detroit where 60 out of 66 houses are vacant or have been abandoned. Via Kottke. 4.17

Michael Surtees on distributing design publications today and the dilemma of print versus digital, on-demand versus waiting patiently for the mail. 4.17

The Design of Food Merchandising Signs. Via DO. 4.17

Colourful Maps. 4.16

Welcome to We Love Typography, a new project by iLT. "Think of it as FFFFOUND for all things type, typography, lettering, & signage." 4.16

Epicurean Cyclist, Russ Roca, interviews Mike Kone from the new and improved Rene Herse bicycles at the San Diego handmade bike show. 4.16

Beautiful series of Penguin Classics hardcovers. 4.16

Subtlety, tactility and great contrasts, not to mention a great sense of the past. Raven Row in London's Spitalfields. 4.16

Lovely almost black and white photoset. 4.15

Was talking with a friend about my collection of found lists, and we ended up revisiting last July's NPR piece on performance artist Hillary Carlip, who collects found lists and recreates characters for their owners. 4.15

Vintage Logos, from a mid-70's edition of World of Logotypes. 4.15

Photography by Branislav Kropilak. Check out Landings, or Garages. 4.15

Eye posts a whistle-stop tour through the top ten typographic weblogs. 4.14

Beautiful hotel luggage label based on its architectural façade. 4.14

Ignite has now inspired a podcast. Andrew posts a sample from Ignite Seattle. 4.14

I've posted up a new branding article featuring Michelin's Bibendum. 4.13

Sign Wallahs, an exploration of the Indian streetscape is just amazing. Hindi Rinny pointed it out, and also directs us to author Meena Kadri's photostream which has some incredible photosets like this and this. Her shots of the Uttarayan Kite Festival are a visual overload. 4.13

Goodbye, Speak Up, and thank you. 4.13

Stretching the barcode for maximum efficiency. 4.13

I've just been reading Khoi Vinh's piece about peer critiques. Well said. 4.13

There’s a definite hierarchy to tube seats. 4.13

My Pantone Past from davidthedesigner. 4.13

The Big Picture features Alaska's Mount Redoubt. 4.11

Naz at Weightshift has posted a couple of great shots of the Bay Area from above. 4.11

H&FJ tackle the question of properly typesetting a number with twelve million digits. 4.10

An old favourite from my days adding collections to the MoOM. The Air Sickness Bag Virtual Museum. "This is really quite a beautiful bag. The Halloween colors, the Mayan Font, the big AeroMexico eagle-head, plus the bag calls you amigo, as if everyone who throws up is a friend somehow." And which of these two from Aeroflot is more minimally great? 4.9

The Hand Drawn Map Association has an amazing collection. Many of the maps have just the sort of qualities that inspire me to collect found lists. Even better, many of the maps include the stories behind them, which are fascinating. 4.8

Photographer Bert Teunissen's Domestic Landscapes series records Europeans in their homes. Via 20×200. 4.8

A dramatic barn conversion by David Pocknell. 4.8

Linzie Hunter's lettering sketchbook. 4.8

It's Nice That launches a really nice redesign. 4.7

Jason Salavon creates visual artwork inspired by digital media and the amalgamation of information. Have a look at Emblem, The Top Grossing Film of All Time, or Figure 1. 4.7

Peter Bruhn of Fountain has a great photostream with plenty of found type. 4.7

Related to the previous post, another great photo project involving things. Hong Hao's My Things. 4.6

I recently checked back in on two of my favourite photo projects, JeongMee Yoon's Pink and Blue Projects. So great. 4.6

An interview with Cristiana Couceiro of the fabulous SeteDias. 4.6

Narrow buildings in Japan and around the world. 4.5

GOOD posts some Lovely Italian transportation infographics. 4.4

A 1989 interview with Black Francis for Dutch tv. Via Kottke. 4.3

Four bold types to build dense word images. 4.3

Old Norwegian radio, via This isn't happiness. 4.3

Good news for Chicago fans of fietsen. 3.2

I just can't stop browsing the Gerd Arntz web archive, especially his incredible array of signs and symbols. Just beautiful. 4.2

Interesting post by 37signals about pricing your product. 4.2