Artist Music Journals is an ongoing, limited edition small book series, focusing on the inseparable connection between music and art. I love this image of experimental collage from Bongout. 11.30

"Inside, a single rare photograph could fetch a price of 40,000 euros ($60,000) or more. Outside this heap of interesting (and potentially) precious gems were free for the taking. You just had to get down on your hands and knees and shuffle through the stack to find something that spoke to you." Art market anarchy at Paris Photo 2009. 11.30

Milton Glaser on drawing and thinking and seeing. 11.25

"Whenever I visit another place or country and end up taking the bus or train I always save the ticket and stick it in my sketchbook." Via Swissmiss. 11.25

Absenter has resurfaced recently and Naz's most recent image is pretty stellar. 11.24

Cardboard bikes by Chris Gilmour. 11.24

10 DAYS is first and foremost a painting study of news headlines taken from the BBC News online between May 6-15th, 2009. The painting involves a few different ideas: a study of hand painted lettering, the idea of taking digital information and turning it into something handmade, memory, and of course the news we're fed and how it's fed to us. 11.24

Lovely photoset of repainted bike lane symbols, via It's Nice That. 11.23

A review of We Feel Fine, the companion print piece to the digital Almanac of Human Emotion by Sep Kamvar and Jonathan Harris. 11.23

More camera-related design goodness. 11.23

Leica commercial by Wim Wenders. 11.23

"Optimism is about openings where people don’t expect to find them." The Optimism project for the New York Metropolitan Transit Authority. 11.20

Thinking about Otl Aicher, and revisiting Armin's piece on Aicher for Speak Up as well as the Otl Aicher Flickr pool. 11.19

Jason Santa Maria on web typography. 11.18

The lovely Ligature, Loop & Stem. 11.18

The Space Chair Project from Toshiba, created at very high altitude with cameras, a helium balloon, and a specially created chair. 11.17

A whole mess of lovely Alvin Lustig book covers. 11.17

"Visual forms are not perceived differently from colors or brightness." 11.17

"Please note: I will continue to microwave halibut in the company lunchroom every single day until such times as you sign all of my expense reports." David Fullarton's Sisyphus Office contribution entitled "What I do at work when I'm supposed to be working". 11.16

Dutch picture book covers from 1810 to 1950, via the Ministry of Type. 11.16

"When Mr. Wolf learned that each room had an identical floor plan of 10 by 10 feet, he knew he had to photograph 100 of them." Photographer Michael Wolf's series 100 x 100, shot at the Shek Kip Mei Estate, the oldest public housing complex in Hong Kong. 11.16

Some "suggested graphic design improvements for what I considered to be The Helmets In Need." Ken Carbone takes a look at NFL helmet design. 11.13

Putting the joy back into Almond Joy: A fun take on candy packaging design inspired by the upcoming Uppercase Confections issue. 11.13

Gearing up for ski season, and admiring this new identity for Killington Resort out in Vermont. 11.13

Unique Japanese barcodes. 11.12

Lubalin Now, the inaugural exhibition in Cooper Union's new gallery. It features a great set of works by Lubalin as well as various contemporary designers and typographers. 11.11

Oh, yeah. The People of Public Transport. 11.11

Gelatin silver print photographs of Colorado in the 60's and 70's by Robert Adams. 11.10

Jessica Hische reveals a bit about her process for creating the day's Daily Drop Cap. 11.10

An archive for modernist graphic design applied to motor vehicles. The Autografik Flickr pool. 11.10

Simple, mildly playful, and architecturally inspired: the new identity for Northern Hogeschool Leeuwarden in The Netherlands. 11.10

Michael Surtees has a look at Emigre No. 70. 11.10

"Our lives are being documented, in ways large and small and trivial and important, and it will all be waiting out there for anybody who has the inclination to find it." Birdhouse for Your Soul. 11.9

For E on her birthday, some things by Charley Harper. 11.9

"We’ve collected the thoughts of 30 of the world’s most inspired creative professionals. Architects, designers, authors and leaders of iconic brands." A great new project, Thirty Conversations on Design. 11.6

A fascinating experiment in curb mining is underway in New York, courtesy of BluDot. 25 of their signature Real Good Chairs have been abandoned around the city armed with GPS tracking devices, so that their new lives can be traced online. 11.5

Dave Jordano has been photographing Chicago's African American storefront churches for years, and has captured the careful details that make these spaces special. Be patient with the interface and view "Articles of Faith" within the project nav. Via The Post Family. 11.5

The Whitney, the Guggenheim, and the New Museum all go trick-or-treating together. 11.5

Video montage of the hundreds of logo sketches that Herbert Matter created during the logo design process for the New Haven Railroad. Via Swissmiss. 11.4

A wide variety of race numbers. Do the number combinations inspire the selection of typeface? 11.4

A new book about the great Gerd Arntz, available for pre-order. 11.4

Spectacular photography of Day of the Dead, Halloween and other festivals happening this week around the world. 11.3

A memento mori for the print industry: Kevin Demaria photographed the common places in the offices of Gourmet during its final days. The last days of Gourmet, via Chris Glass. 11.3

Eine's urban letters. 11.3

Cristina Couciero has moved her blog over to Hue + Saturation, and now includes some of her inspiration along with pieces of her excellent work. 11.3

Really wonderful vintage map infographics from Fortune. The full set is here. 11.2

Save Your Logo endeavours to help save the creatures represented in major brand identities. Via Cameron Moll. 11.2

Who doesn't like mysterious letters? 11.2