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- Look what I made: a MacBook Air sleeve
- Look what I made: a tray
- Look what I made: a wallet
- Is it truly so hard to keep sidewalks open and walkable?
- Urban Spectacles makes handmade eyeglasses from exotic woods and other…
- The History of Visual Communication
- It's the Economy, Stupid!
- A House by the Park
- record covers from Blue Note Records
- Rob Giampietro started a collection
- Gerd Arntz Web Archive
- Also via DesignNotes, a new Flickr group for Tables of Contents
- How We're Wrecking Our Feet
- 10 Things I Have Learned, Milton Glaser's life lessons
- diagram of every sentence in On the Road
- Atlanta Pecha Kucha
- Frans Masereel
- The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures
- You want to be able to produce a lot of joy, a paper joy
- Customizable graph paper
- A tour of a 100-square-foot house
- Florian-Hart residence
- Selections from the 1962 Sears Christmas catalog
- I like these clothes hangers, simple leather balls tethered to the wall
- It is important to use your hands
- Photos of stuffed animals turned inside out
- interview with Ellen Lupton
- Chip Kidd interviews Milton Glaser
- How to create an extreme overhang with toy bricks [$]
- A map of where all the blondes are in Europe
- Oboiler has a little picket fence for your baseboards to hide wires and cords
- Helvetica, the film
- Most of the online designeurotic t-shirt selling craze gives me
- Minimalism in interior design has become a caricature
- National Parks Service is making more realistic maps
- Sarajevo Siege Map
- Music visualization designs made from spiral spectrograms
- Antartica and its ocean at the center
- Reader submissions for album covers for Radiohead's album, In Rainbows
- photos of an oceanside cliffwalk in Chile
- photo collection of the Space Alphabet
- NYT article about fashion
- Tobias Frere-Jones
- Kevin Cornell
- These bed sheets have markings to let couples know who is hogging
- Someone took fantastic notes from an Edward Tufte seminar last month in Chicago
- Khoi Vinh made a flowchart for how his dog thinks
- (mis)use of typography in the Toronto subway system
- I wish I was going to VizThink '08
- Layer Tennis
- Helvetica is finally coming to Atlanta in November, courtesy of AIGA-Atlanta
- Galileo's sunspot illustrations
- Personal Injury Warning System
- An introduction to OpenType
- I would very much like to own a Monome 256
- An interview with Michael Cook
- We're making great progress in information design for coffee lovers
- graphic exploring the connected approaches of the Specialist and the Generalist
- ATL Creatives is all about what creative people are up to in Atlanta
- interview with expert calligrapher Bernard Maisner
- Alright, here's a rendition of my own personal info-designer chart
- What it takes to be an information designer
- A brief little comedy routine about how not to use Powerpoint
- The story of Clearview
- The Rasterbator creates huge, rasterized images from any picture
- I want these curtains
- The New York Times has a new tower to work in
- Anil Dash noticed the recent popularity of pixel graphs
- pixelated jewelry
- cool posters from the Works Progress Administration
- quiet structure
- brain-stretching discussion
- What If Earth’s Topography Were Reversed?
- A taxonomical study of desserts
- A long essay exploring Human Computer Interaction in Science Fiction Movies
- A nice little article about Helvetica in the IHT
- I just found Moon River a few days ago
- Some tribute/rip-off album covers from the world of hip-hop
- Collective Type Project
- A video of photos of circular things
- A0 magazine is a photojournal
- makes these sweet lamps from thin birch wood
- Interaction of Color (review: 4.5/5)
- Etched in Stone
- The Bibliochase is both a chair and a bookshelf
- full set of scans from the book on Flickr
- Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
- Here's a collection of newspaper masthead clip art from the time of China's
- Open Architecture Network
- Detour Exhibition
- There's a fairly good profile of Edward Tufte in the current Stanford Magazine
- An essay on student expenses in graphic design schools
- Web Typography Sucks, a pretty cool presentation at SXSW Interactive this week
- An essay on microtypography and dictionary design
- Grid systems in web design
- The pages of the Manuale Typographicum by Hermann Zapf
- Some intriguing design-writ-large ideas about cities qua applications
- The Airchive is a huge repository of old airline ephemera
- medieval bestiary
- I like these spindly bookshelves from pogoHome
- incredible sculptures from hand-cut stacks of construction paper
- Distorted maps of the earth
- A directory of signs, glyphs, and symbols
- Interesting graph charting relationships
- infographics drawing on aspects of American culture
- A collection of patterns from the inside of security envelopes
- I love these renditions of the Republican elephant logo
- cover a friend's car in post-it notes
- points to the audio and video
- An interview with Ootje Oxenaar, designer of Dutch currency
- rare books on calligraphy, penmanship, and pen art
- using the names of the objects to build them
- paintings of the descriptions of paintings
- infographics in these Japanese stadium menus
- Check out these amazing curtains crafted by Nienke Sybrandy
- Engineering 503: Scientific Visualization & Information Architecture
- LilyPond looks like an interesting musical notation program
- A nicely supersimplified map of the United States Interstate System
- Signal v. Noise pointed to a couple cool things the other day
- animated interpretation of John Coltrane's tune, Giant Steps
- A collection of old-school circus posters
- Epica Awards
- Truth in Advertising
- Prog Rock
- Ah, nothing like a comforting spray of clam chowder
- I Really Like This Tie—and This One
- She blinded me with library science
- comics, games, and world-building
- Austin Kleon has drawn up a cool mind map about comics and information design
- Heavy Water: Illustrations of Water and Architecture
- FedEx doesn't want to ship contents labeled as rocket fuel
- An brief interview with Ellen Lupton
- weekly map of the downtown homeless population
- Free Font Manifesto
- Bubble Project
- More Tufte