• 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

• Codex 99 posts up a bit of an ode to the Leica, plus an image of perhaps the loveliest instructions booklet cover ever. 10.27

• A great film about Gerhard Richter on the eve of his major retrospective at Tate Modern. Via @coudal. 10.27

• Videos from the recent TEDxBoulder 2011 have been posted here. Some favourites were Jake Nickell with Never Stop Making and Alex Cruickshank with Forward to the Past. A great video shown that night from a different TED event was Sunni Brown on the power of doodling. 10.20

• The Lytro. I really need to see this camera in person. Looks amazing. 10.19

• Lovely interview with Chris Glass at The Great Discontent. 10.18

• Great piece about how the newsweeklies covered and designed their tributes to Steve Jobs upon his death. Via @coudal. 10.17

• "Today, lots of people across the political spectrum are willing to abandon logic, reason or even science in favor of their politics, and these people propose only obstruction instead of solutions, letting skepticism take the place of creative invention. Given that reality, I sincerely hope that the people who invent, create, remix, tinker, craft, and simply make can recognize that we are a formidable movement, as powerful as any party, and it's our right to take control of a political dialogue from those who refuse to make anything but noise." Recognizing the Maker Movement. 10.18

• Nomad by Jeroen Toirkens is a strikingly lovely visual anthropology of the Northern Hemisphere's last living nomadic cultures. 10.16

• Thanks to Steve Jobs, I've been creating things with amazing hardware and software for the past 34 years. That's an incredible thing, and it has changed my life in many ways. It is hard to imagine where the world of design would be without the things that Steve created. Perhaps most importantly, the enthusiasm he had for good design was something that spread through our culture and helped to create a world in which design could receive more recognition and effect more change. We will all miss his influence, but are grateful to have had his brilliance. Here are some thoughts from John Gruber, Frank Chimero, Barack Obama, and even thoughts on life from Steve Jobs himself. "You've got to find what you love." 10.6

• Some really nice typography at work in the 2011 Fortune Magazine "500" issue. And I believe that I've just made friends with MVB Solano Gothic. 10.3

• "The typewriter is still the perfect machine for getting ideas neatly presented on paper. Moreover, the typewriter requires the author to be aware of GUMS (grammar, usage, mechanics, and spelling) because there is no talking paperclip to help. This is writing without a net." Magic Margin, a blog about bringing typewriters into the classroom to teach kids how to write. 9.28

• "This project shows what a font would look like if it consisted of all typefaces installed on my system. Every character from a to z is drawn using every single font with a low opacity. In total there are over 900 typefaces in my library. I didn’t exclude the ugly ones." Moritz Resl has created the Average Font using all of the typefaces he has installed. Via Kottke. 9.28

• Serbian designer Predrag Stakic's elegantly simple Logo for Human Rights has been selected as the winner from over 15,000 globally sourced submissions. 9.28

• Golden Grid System is a folding grid for responsive design. 9.28

• One of my fave Flickr groups, the Manhole Cover pool, is still going strong. 9.28

• Grain Edit posts up some nice work by Kevin Stanley Harris. 9.28

• Caan Architecten: Pharmacy M. A lovely, clean architectural concept. 9.28

• Appuru Pai's long exposure motion images shot from trains in Tokyo. Via CP. 9.26

• Gorgeous, funny, clever and fascinating. Maria Popova highlights Sophie Blackall's Missed Connections: Love, Lost & Found, a book of her illustrations based on Craigslist missed connections. 9.23

• Finally getting around to checking out this great roundup of interface icons over at Owltastic. Thanks for that! 9.23

• A 1949 Zeiss lens and bellows mounted on a Canon 5DII. 9.19

• Made By Hand is a film series celebrating people who makes things by hand — sustainably, locally, and with a love for craft. 9.16

• Floating Worlds is a fascinating collection of illustrated envelopes, postcards, and various correspondence between Edward Gorey and friend Peter F. Neumeyer. 9.15

• An interesting, insightful interview with Rob Janoff, designer of the Apple logo. Via @DaveWaite. 9.12

• Branding 10,000 Lakes. 9.1

• TypArchive.com, a collaborative image database that is a source of inspiration for new typefaces, or just eye candy for the type obsessed. 8.23

• These are pretty awesome. Famous lives in minimalist pictogram flowcharts, from Darth Vader to Jesus. 8.22

• Great photoset of vernacular typography Polaroids. 8.19

• "Spec(ulative) work is a cancer within the design industry and all designers need to understand their role in fighting it." Support the AntiSpec campaign. 8.19

• Swoosh: 40 Years Fly By. June 1971 is the date the Nike Swoosh was launched. 8.19

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