"The Het Geheugen van Nederland (The Memory of the Netherlands) is a Dutch website that contains an extensive collection of illustrations, photographs, texts, film and audio fragments, all of Dutch making." Dave links up a great Wim Crouwel archive over on Grain Edit. 3.31

Underground Links Revisited: Tile motifs on the Victoria Line. 3.31

Underground Links Revisited: Do NOT MESS with the River Thames. 3.31

Underground Links Revisited, selection #2: Is it the end of the line for London's iconic tube map? London's Oyster card expansion brings change to London Transport. Plus a gallery of 100 years of tube maps. 3.30

I'll be posting up a series of Underground Links Revisited, selections from my archives about the London Underground. Here's the first: A Typeface for the Underground, a discussion of both the original Johnston Sans design and the redesigned New Johnston. 3.30

This is the kind of thing that makes me want to make things: Misplaced Manhole Covers. Via CP by the way of Marshall Sokoloff, who makes me want to make things, as well. 3.19

Photography, typography, and plenty of diacritics over at On aime se promener. 3.18

"Essentially, it is a camera that – using a mobile communication device – takes other's photos. Photos that were created by someone who pressed a button somewhere at the same time as its own button was pressed." Buttons, a blind camera. Via CP. 3.18

"Taken at a time of re-generation for British industry from the 1950s, Maurice captures a sense of glamour and vigor that is resolutely positive." Wonderful photography of industry by Maurice Broomfield, via It's Nice That. 3.17

I enthused about it way back when, and was thrilled to see British student Min-Kyu Choi's radical redesign of the humble three-pin plug win the top prize in the Brit Insurance Designs of the Year Awards. Via DO. 3.17

Homage to Japanese Typography Part 1: Signs and Signage. 3.17

Flickr Flow is an experiment whose materials are color and time. Using a collection of photographs taken from Flickr, an algorithm was used to calculate the relative proportions of colors seen in different seasons. 3.16

James Puckett reviews Emigre No. 70, the Look Back Issue over at ILT. 3.15

Wallpaper by Studio Nommo. The Turkish company teamed up with 12 illustrators to create a new set of 17 wallpapers, each originally hand drawn. Additionally, you can create your own design with a drawing or a photograph. Have a look at this or this. 3.15

Bertelli Biciclette Assemblate. If I were ever lucky enough to choose one, I'd be honored and very, very torn. Just gorgeous. 3.12

I've been thinking lately about IJburg in Amsterdam, which I visited a few years back. A planned urban village built upon newly created islands, it has become popular with the creative community and young families as it combines newly built homes and shops with proximity to the main part of the city. The architecture fuses traditional Amsterdam canal house design with more contemporary and experimental ideas. In typical Dutch style, there is plenty of variety and some good juxtapositions. Well worth a stroll over the bridge. 3.12

The London poster. Especially this one. 3.12

If you missed it last week, Naz Hamid and Sam Javanrouh went head to head in a Layer Tennis battle of a unique nature. The match was played with photography, outside, while mobile. All of those aspects are things I love with a passion. Naz has written up a great behind the scenes look at the match with plenty of interesting thoughts and tidbits. Sam was using his Canon 5D Mark II and Panasonic GF1 with pancake 20mm lens, both of which I use and bike with on a daily basis, so it was great to see what he came up with. Both did a bang-up job, and it's inspiring to see inside the process. Nice match, guys! 3.11

Five things you didn't know about Ansel Adams. Via C-Monster. 3.11

A guide to breakfast tacos in Austin. I'm still racking my brains for the exact location of the Tex-Mex perfection I experienced last visit over on the east side, so perhaps this will help. Via CP. 3.10

"We don’t know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don’t always appreciate their fragility" 3.10

Ditoria, a film about letterpress. Via The Casual Optimist. 3.10

"Unable to rest their eyes on a colorful photograph or boldface heading that could be easily skimmed and forgotten about, Americans collectively recoiled Monday when confronted with a solid block of uninterrupted text." Nation Shudders At Large Block Of Uninterrupted Text. 3.9

The YikeBike, a new option for extremely efficient and compact urban transportation. 3.9

Books seem to be a theme around the studio this week. Former studiomates 37signals are launching their book REWORK, my friends and clients The Morning News have revved up their 2010 Tournament of Books, and I've been checking out author and former client Dan Pink's newest book Drive. Lots of great thoughts all around. 3.8

Look around your environment, see what you can save, pick it up, turn it over, and look at it in a different way. The RRR Project. 3.8

Books about maps. 3.8

Children’s books of the early Soviet era. 3.7

Get a little (or a lot) of design inspiration from Africagadget, where problems are solved and needs addressed using African ingenuity and little else. 3.5

Logorama. NSFW unless you work in branding, in which case you really should check it out. 3.4

Some wonderful examples of graphic design by Elaine Lustig Cohen. Some additional examples are posted here. 3.4

Paula Scher on what they don’t teach you about identity design in design schools. 3.3

It's a lot of fun to check out fellow collector Debbie Hill's shopping list collection since, being in the UK, she gets to find words like posh and courgette. She also creates some interesting artwork from her lists, and I love it that we've both found lists with illustrations of what a "whisk" is! Here on this side of the Atlantic, we shop for things like frozen lemon juice in a box, and sometimes we just have way too much peanut butter. And then there are those Thanksgiving lists… (& part 2). 3.3

Brian Rea's extensive murals of fear. 3.3

The photography of Emmet Gowin. 3.3

The Sandpit, a short film by Sam O'Hare featuring time-lapse tilt shift photography. An interview with Sam can be found here. Via Laughing Squid. 3.2

Local note: F/Stops, a bicycle photography show and race, is coming up this Friday the 5th at IndyInk. 3.2

Artist Richard Rezac, whose thoughtful work was an integral part of Chicago's art scene when I made the decision to move there for grad school at SAIC. Via The Post Family. 3.2

The Museum of Things. 3.2

Wonderful collection of letterhead design by various Futurists and other members of the avant garde, many complete with letters from the same. All are from the excellent book, Letters from the Avant Garde: Modern Graphic Design, by Ellen Lupton and Elaine Lustig Cohen. 3.1

Dan Reynolds writes about the library of the Gutenberg Museum and blackletter type, with some lovely blackletter designs to illustrate. 3.1

Amsterdam studios DUS Architecten and Studio for Unsolicited Architecture built a dome of umbrellas around a lamp post in Rotterdam and held a party under it. Called the Bucky Bar, the project referenced the famed geodesic domes of the late American architect Buckminster Fuller. 3.1