• Nice new site design by Frank Chimero. 2.28

• Why pink, or magenta as we tend to call it around here, doesn't really exist. 2.27

• After working on two very different playground designs, I'm really enjoying Playgroundology, a blog about playgrounds. Check out a few of the featured posts here on Swissmiss. 2.22

• More photography by Vivian Maier. Via @brainpicker. 2.22

• The lovely iOS '86 for iPhone. Via @coudal. 2.14

• Neville Brody's work for Beijing Design Week and his impressions of Beijing as a city. Via @grainedit. 2.14

• The Man Who Lived on His Bike. 2.13

• Charley Harper: A Bird's Eye View is a Harper retrospective currently running at the University of Cincinnati. Looks great. Via @glass. 2.13

• Gerhard Richter Painting opens March 14th in New York. 2.11

• Social media, explained with donuts. 2.10

• "I've been drawing letters since 1948, and I'm still learning how to draw." Doyald Young, Logotype Designer, 1926-2011. 2.8

• A look behind the scenes as 37signals redesigns the default profile images for their products. The end of Mr. Default. 2.8

• "Design is on a roll." I finally set aside time to read Cameron Koczon's excellent article An Important Time for Design for A List Apart. Many great points were made — these are things that we have known for a while but need to put on the front burner. Another must read. 2.6

• Method & Craft interviews Andy McMillan. 2.6

• Every so often, it's time to revisit the amazing design work of Stefan Kanchev. Today is one of those times. 2.6

• A lovely photoset of old business cards. Are they actually business cards, calling cards, or perhaps a mixture of both? 2.2

• "Conservators at the Prado in Madrid recently made an astonishing discovery, hidden beneath black overpaint. What was assumed to be a replica of the Mona Lisa made after Leonardo’s death had actually been painted by one of his key pupils, working alongside the master. The picture is more than just a studio copy—it changed as Leonardo developed his original composition." The earliest copy of the Mona Lisa has been found in Prado. 2.1

• Riding the London Underground becomes an interactive game. Via @GOOD. 2.1

• A long overdue mention of an amazing presentation. Wilson Miner's When We Build. Thoughtful, expansive, and intelligent. Mandatory viewing. 1.27

• TNW with a piece about Apple's design process. We've all been aware that Apple lets design lead the way, but this goes into some interesting details. 1.26

• BBC News with a feature on The Post Family. Via 37signals. 1.25

• January Aurora Over Norway. Via CP. 1.25

• Yosemite HD, a timelapse of one of my favourite places. 1.23

• Vernacular Typography is a project by Molly Woodward who "seeks to collect and document examples of these vanishing symbols of art and culture". She also has a Kickstarter campaign and an awesome collection of manhole covers. 1.20

• Swissted is an ongoing project by graphic designer Mike Joyce, which draws from his love of punk rock and Swiss modernism, two movements that have absolutely nothing to do with one another. Via everyone I know who loves design and music. 1.14

• Everything you need to know about buying a camera, a nicely designed guide over at The Verge. Via Kottke. 1.5

• 41 rules for women cyclists circa 1895. Number 11, which admonishes one not to "cultivate a bicycle face", really should be a standard rule for everyone. 1.3

• Congratulations to Sir Ive. 1.3

• Veer appears to be shifting its sights away from typography. Very sad news, as I loved their curation of interesting typefaces and the thoughtful layouts and specimens. The world does not need more emphasis upon stock photography. 1.3

• I'm starting the year with the aim of taking one interesting photo every day. There are some great examples around about how to proceed and then how to display the results. Stay tuned for posts about my experiences. 1.3

• The Daily Mail has posted a gallery of photos from the new book Vivian Maier: Street Photographer. Via Gapers Block. 12.20

• Laughing Squid with a few selections from the visual treasure trove that was the 1975 Christmas Season Sears Catalog Wish Book. Awesome. 12.16

• The Inner Object: Seeing Kandinsky. 12.16

• I'm a bit late on the uptake this year, but noticed that Pantone has announced its 2012 Color of the Year, Pantone 17-1463. 12.16

• Bold, beautiful typography and gig posters from Telegramme Studio featured over at Grain Edit. 12.15

• Twenty-one ads from 1950s Japan. Via CP. 12.14

• "Washington-based painter Tyree Callahan modified a 1937 Underwood Standard typewriter, replacing the letters and keys with color pads and hued labels to create a functional “painting” device called the Chromatic Typewriter". Via @brainpicker. 12.13

• Shapes for sounds, a visual history of the alphabet. 12.3

• "Earlier this year, filmmakers Lukas and Salome Augustin traveled to Kabul and Mazar-e Sharif, intent on capturing portraits of daily life." A gorgeous portrait of Afghanistan in film, via Photojojo. 12.2

• Some nice images of the "iCam", a concept case for the future iPhone 5 by Italian designer Antonio DeRosa that would allow interchangeable lenses to be used with the iPhone camera. 12.2

• Great video of Steve Jobs at NeXT in the late 80's. It shows Steve leading a brainstorming session, Paul Rand and Steve with the new NeXT logo, and plenty of scenes of Steve not wearing black. 11.29

• Succinct and fairly spot-on piece about why Instagram is so popular. Some people may use Instagram for the faux nostalgia aspect, but for people I know the points about audience, immediacy and constraint are well made. 11.29

• Tiny personal newspapers, created for you from a configuration that you request on your phone. Interesting concept, and an object that will likely become part of daily life for those who participate. Little Printer. 11.29

• When I'm wrestling with a menu concept, which is admittedly not my favourite thing to design, I take a break and check out Art of the Menu for fresh inspiration. 11.28

• "So instead let us give more time for doing physical things in the real world and less time for staring at (and touching) the glowing flat rectangle." Mr. Tufte is not fond of touchscreens. Via Daring Fireball. 11.17

• Steve Jobs and Paul Rand: The impact of confidence. 11.17

• Skyscrapers above the fog in Dubai. 11.16

• Ten Steps to Becoming the Designer You Want to Be. Via Alessandra Turati. 11.15

• As a Betanaut, I've been loving Gimme Bar. Now we're in for 5 Days of Gimme Bar, a bunch of goodness in the form of new Gimme Bar features! Day One. 11.14

• "Then comes the part I like best: free improvisation. Through some special channel, the story comes welling out freely from inside. All I have to do is get into the flow." Murakami on how being obsessed with music helped him be a novelist. 11.13

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