• 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

• The Ministry of Type on the branding of The Principality of Liechtenstein, which is a rather official-sounding post. 2.26

• Analyzing Olympic Pictograms. Steven Heller traces the evolution of the symbols since they first appeared in 1936. 2.25

• A brief but interesting image collection of record labels. I love this one. 2.25

• A collection of wonderful sign lettering images and other public space typography. Just gorgeous. Via WLT. 2.24

• Photographs by Mark Power. Check the CaCO3 photo set. 2.24

• Watched Food Fight last night at the Boulder Theater, an interesting documentary about food culture in the U.S. Chef Ann Cooper was there for a brief introduction. 2.23

• My friends and family members remain slightly unsettled about having their grocery lists collected or misappropriated by yours truly and included in his book, Milk, Eggs, Vodka. Great video about my fellow grocery list collector, Bill Keaggy, an excerpt from the upcoming MoOMumentary by the curators of The MoOM. Never fear, the author of this list will remain anonymous. And this one. 2.23

• The Kodak Bantam Special. 2.23

• A found alphabet. Via Michael Surtees. 2.22

• Clichés and stereotypes. 2.22

• For E, a lovely big collection of Sevens! Via Silver Lining. 2.22

• A bit of graphic inspiration from the Container Corporation of America. 2.20

• Great piece on Roger Ebert in Esquire. And, if you haven't read it yet, the 2009 piece from Granta, A Bar on North Avenue, is a treat. Especially if you love Chicago. 2.19

• Lovely new visual standards redesign for BBC digital, with work by Neville Brody and Research Studios. 2.18

• Wooden churches in the Russian north, wonderful photographs by Richard Davies. See more of Richard's photographs on his website. Via CP. 2.18

• The photography of Brad Moore. 2.18

• Something I've been talking about lately: Why we should teach design early. 2.17

• Absolutely everything you ever wanted to know about road drop bar geometry. Via Matt Haughey. 2.17

• Halloween in Harlem. 2.17

• Images from Chicago, Chicago, a portrait of the city by photographer Yasuhiro Ishimoto. View more here and here. Via Silver Lining. 2.16

• The 99% talks to Maira Kalman. 2.16

• Standardizing the Super Bowl logo will be something that ushers in a whole different way of thinking about the event, the venues, and the merchandise. This particular solution will be geared for reproduction onscreen, not on uniforms or fields. Interesting. 2.15

• Poking around in the Vintage Graphis pool. 2.15

• For the love of "&". Ampersand-related activity and sheer typographic loveliness. 2.12

• Carrying 40 pounds of camera equipment — and a computer — he takes a chair lift, then skis to a second chair lift that brings him farther up the mountain. Photographer Doug Mills talks about how he prepares for weeks to successfully shoot the Winter Olympics. 2.12

• Some truth about TPUTH. Launched yesterday, TPUTH is an electronic newspaper that strikes a balance somewhere between Matt Drudge and Jon Stewart but specifically for geeks, designers, and venture capitalists. Liz Danzico gets the inside word. 2.11

• An attempt to give this humble ligature the respect it deserves: The Ampersand. And, yes, this one really is a beauty. 2.11

• DWP with an inspirational roundup of great design-focused magazines and blogs from The Netherlands. 2.11

• EndGrain is a gorgeous site dedicated to letterpress. In additionto being a directory and aggregator for wood type and letterpress works and information on the web, it showcases a beautiful and extensive collection of wood lettering. Via UPPERCASE. 2.10

• Sculptures by Hiroyuki Hamada, and more on Hamada's site. 2.10

• "By 'meditation' I mean, having space to think. Feeling an emptiness in the mind that enables you to consider solutions to tough problems, or not-so-tough problems, or just, god forbid, to relax. I find I need doses of this space in regular intervals." Craig Mod on climbing and thinking, along with some beautiful new shots from his Lumix GF1, mentioned previously. 2.9

• The iPad designed for urban "third spaces": For the life between buildings – some notes on the iPad. Via @aegirthor. 2.8

• The Steepest Streets of San Francisco and its precariously-balanced sequel More Steeps of San Francisco. Cycling challenge, anyone? 2.8

• Lovely hand lettering piece by Lauren Kaiser. Via WLT. 2.8

• Close attention paid to small moments and to subtle juxtaposition is something I value in photography. Jessica Backhaus is quite good at it. 2.5

• Josef Schulz photograph billboards and shopping centre signs, then strips them of their messages. Sign Out is currently showing at the Galerie Heinz-Martin Weigand. Via CP. 2.5

• Scout Books posts an interview with featured illustrator Frank Chimero. 2.5

• How To Explain It To My Parents is a series of films in which 9 abstract artists explain to their mom and dad what their work is all about. Subtitled, but pretty great. 2.4

• Try to be anything else. Then go back to the thing that drives you; that act is its own reward. 2.3

• Lovely work by Chermayeff & Geismar for Xerox. Also here, and here. 2.3

• 55,438 and counting Polaroid SX 70 images. 2.2

• The year in custom letters, 2009. Impressive. 2.2

• You can come out when you can properly explain the differences between Modernist architecture and postmodern ornamentation. 2.1

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