I love the photography of David Maisel, and his site is well worth a revisit. Reminded by the terrific but does it float. 1.29

The bicycle logo collection over at BikeType, which also has a blog and various other bike related news and features. 1.29

An early Apple tablet design from frog design, The "Bashful", was named after the story-book dwarf in Snow White and created alongside the Apple II computer series. 1.29

Coming Home, the latest Pictory showcase. 1.28

A stunningly beautiful timelapse video of Vancouver. Via CP. 1.28

Luke Hayman on five ways the iPad will change magazine design. 1.27

After posting about Sugimoto the other day, I was inspired to look up this article which, among other things, includes one of my very favourite thoughts and inspirations, courtesy of Gregory Rukavina: "One early movie theater in Japan had seats perpendicular to the screen," he explains, citing a film theorist's essay on Japanese cinema. "They weren't sure if the beam of light from the lens wasn't as aesthetically important as the image on the screen." 1.27

Brilliant! A site devoted to making fun of photos from Dwell Magazine. I love Dwell, and so far this is pretty great, too. Via pretty much all of Twitter. 1.27

125 children from Peckham were given a shoe box and asked to recreate their bedroom and write a few sentences about it. The boxes were then stacked to form a tower block installation. Shoe Box Living. 1.26

Hiroshi Sugimoto decided to shoot a whole movie in a single frame. 1.25

Schematic chart of ideological and design changes from the 60s to the 80s by Massimo Vignelli. 1.25

The history of Nike's "Just Do It". 1.25

Starting from twenty basic scribbles, which can be observed at the age of two, children seem to develop specific patterns, shapes, diagrams, and other visual iconography before humans and early pictorialism appear. 1.23

"I photographed it because it was beautiful, monstrous, terrifically enormous." Timelapse video of a coal power plant in Iowa. Check the section with the train cars moving one by one, around 1:08. 1.23

The Ford Logo That Almost Was, about Paul Rand's redesign of the logo in 1966. 1.21

Really wonderful photography from the lens of Matthias Heiderich. More images in his Flickr photostream. Via Monoscope. 1.21

"The fact of the matter is, I want everything we do, that I do personally, that our office does, to be beautiful. I don't give a damn whether the client understands that that's worth anything, or that the client thinks it's worth anything, or whether it is worth anything. It's worth it to me. It's the way I want to live my life. I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares." – Saul Bass. 1.20

"The gist of the text is a number of different (mostly round) objects claim to be the "King of Circles" in a variety of ways meant to be entertaining to small children." Wow. 1.19

I'm not a big fan of dramatic postprocessing, but was intrigued by this set by Eyetwist. 1.19

An interesting concept for online advertising, DoGooder, a new browser plug-in. 1.19

A history of the ampersand, and a showcase thereof. 1.18

The Mid Century Modern – Sticker, Label + Stamp Club is a great resource with at least 1,795 small, inspiring designs. 1.18

A blog just about chairs and nothing else? Sign me up. Via It's Nice That. 1.18

Lovely manhole cover at Jules Vernacular. Mentioned it before, but don't get me started about manhole covers. 1.18

Welcome to the Soda Can Library. A trove of inspiration, via the DDC. 1.16

100 Places to Remember Before They Disappear features 100 photographs of places around the world in risk of disappearing or seriously threatened by climate change. Frustrating interface, but check out the image of #54, Chicago. I absolutely love it when the city looks like that from the air. Spectacular. 1.15

Letterpress printing using a steamroller. 1.15

"In the year 2000 I took one picture a day with disposable cameras for the whole year. 10 years later, the world is very different, and I've decided to do it again, this time, with the camera on my BlackBerry." A Year in the Day. 1.15

CURB, a natural media company, offers media solutions that use only natural earth elements. 1.14

From the awesome Letterheady, inspiration for M on his birthday: Letterhead for Robot Salesmen, Ltd.. 1.14

A few recent beauties via WLT: Damien Correll's Recroom, a found-object typeface. Poster from Onlab. Image of London. 1.14

Mad Men pocket square poster series. 1.14

"One weekend each month, the quiet of Two Rivers is interrupted as carloads of artisans drive in from across the Midwest. The place comes alive as printmaking workshops led by, and filled with, some of the nations top design talent descend on the sleepy enclave." Trailer for Typeface, the film. 1.13

Creator of the inspiring Bubble Project, Ji Lee on The Transformative Power of Personal Projects. Inspiring and so true. As with much of 99%, required viewing. 1.13

The next big thing will start out looking like a toy, and will be dismissed as such. Clay Christensen's "disruptive technology" theory. 1.13

Brand New on the most relevant identity work of the decade. There's a lot in there! 1.12

Small Caps, some sound advice from Aegir regarding typographic decision making. 1.12

Installations by Maurizio Pellegrin. 1.12

Completely gorgeous. The preschool version of the Encyclopedia Brittanica. 1.11

Hoefler and Frere-Jones talk to the NYT about the translation between print and pixel. 1.11

"It is a model for what Boulder could be – a city, an urban gem, and then in Boulder's case, surrounded by open prairie and mountains. Urban and rural, each in contrast with the other, reveling in their difference." My friend Mark Gerwing believes that the city of Boulder could be better with more density. I agree. 1.9

Redesigning the boarding pass. Yes, please. 1.8

More than a few gorgeous book covers by Dick Bruna. 1.8

CUT-UP MX is a blog dedicated to Mexican billboards. "Chopped up, partly exchanged and randomly assembled they often become exciting commercial collages." Really great roadside finds from Norman Palm. Via It's Nice That. 1.8

Habit is a blog endeavouring to capture and celebrate the bits of daily life through an image paired with a brief sentence. 1.8

Terrific photography from Colleen Plumb, particularly the series Animals are Outside Today. 1.7

Around the World with the Bodoni Family features a series of typographic illustrations, each using a letter of Bodoni to illustrate a place. 1.7

Post-It Show 4 is up right now at Giant Robot in LA. 1.7

"Our wordplay is better than Coldplay on their best day." I've posted up images here and there previously, but Stephen Powers' A Love Letter for You mural project is absolutely worth checking out in its entirety. 1.6

A stunning interactive panorama of Sana'a rooftops at sunset by Stefan Geens. Via GOOD. 1.6

"Because sometimes the best things are the ones that slip in through the back door." Andrea of Hula Seventy put together a great list of 59 things that happened to her in 2009. 1.6

More Rand: Steve Jobs interviewed about Paul Rand. 1.6

"On each of those 365 days, I will photograph or draw (and occasionally paint) one collection." A Collection a Day, 2010, beginning with vintage erasers. 1.5

The business card of Paul Rand. 1.5

Interesting post by Aegir on 18th & 19th century gravestone lettering in Ohio. 1.5

A seriously sweet ride from Naked Bicycles. Via Monoscope. 1.5

Nice 6. 1.5

The Bigshot Camera, a camera that kids build from scratch and then use to learn about optics, mechanics and energy. Great idea. 1.5

It's like your very own Jeff Koons, but bouncier and way more fun: the BIG TIG bouncy hopper, in silver. Via Swissmiss. 1.4

A Flickr discussion with images of photographers with their cameras. Via Glass. 1.4

It's 2010 and I am still using Freehand. 1.4

Welcoming 2010, from The Big Picture. 1.3

There's something quite perfect about Eric Baker's most recent choice of images for TODAY, full of the eclectic but thoughtful choices that I find most inspiring. 1.2

Maira Kalman's last post for And the Pursuit of Happiness. Sad, but on the bright side, there will be a book. 1.2

A very happy new year, and post number 1000 on this site. Thanks very much to all of the great people I've worked with over this past year. You've been generous with ideas and inspiration. Here's to great things in 2010! 1.1