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May, 2009

Google Wave is the wave of the future? "I can't believe it's a browser!" (05/29)

New Leaf paper made from recycled banana and palm fibers. Paper I can agree with. (05/29)

Meet Typekit, a hopeful advancement in typography on the Web. We'll see what happens. I'm ready to move passed sIFR. (05/29)

Jeremy Geddes paints some extraordinary images, rich with plotlines. (05/28)

Second Home for Leisure Living. (05/26)

Hungry Hungry Hippos by John Starr. Reminds me of Disney animation from yester-year. (05/26)

Welcome to Berlin's Free University. (05/26)

Really love this label design for Scott's Brewing Co. (05/26)

LEGO Architecture. Well, they done finally did it. (05/20)

Profile Madness, a good writeup on color profiles for web images. (05/20)

They found the missing link. Tom Hanks to star in movie version. (05/20)

Isolated building studies. There's something strangely fascinating about looking at a stand-alone building. Or maybe it's just me. [zeldman] (05/19)

Sim Chan paints beautiful cities. (05/19)

Adidas African Barber Shop. What is a measure of an athlete? The haircut? (05/19)

Swanswell gets a new identity, and it's, well, wonderful. (05/19)

Yui Onodera CD packaging. (05/18)

Jay Fletcher has a great portfolio. Check it. (05/18)

Not a huge fan of posting lists, but these fifty examples of infographics are quite nice. (05/18)

A list of social marketing examples. [marc] (05/18)

Transforming prayer into energy. Isn't that what prayer is to begin with? (05/15)

Check out the hair detail in this bag. (05/15)

NYLON, issue 1 up in its entirely. Not really a big fan of fashion mags, but this one's pretty interesting. (05/15)

Sentinel, a new font. I would like to use this. Right away. (05/13)

Disconnect

Been thinking a lot about "disconnecting". That sounds rather unpleasant. I don't mean it that way. Rather, "disconnecting" from our current plugged-in world, and what kind of ideas that would produce. But let's back up a bit.

Hilarious commercial for Tabasco. I buy it. (05/13)

Up close and personal with a stitched logo. (05/13)

Amazing what one can do in a swimming pool. (05/13)

Cutty Sark by Shon Tanner. Totally belongs in a dimly-lit bar. Beautiful. (05/13)

Folks, meet Food City. A self-sustaining, off-the-grid city? Wait a minute, they stole the idea from Walt Disney! Can anyone say EPCOT? (05/13)

Hey look everyone! Renegade cowboy/private security company Blackwater has changed its name to Xe! How many board room meetings did it take to reconsider their name post-Iraq War incident? (05/13)

Neutraface Slab by House Industries. Mmm-hm, good stuff. (05/13)

When Bad Things Happen to Good Logos. (05/11)

Beautiful Lies by Kali Meadows. (05/11)

Font Embedding Now. (05/08)

Water, light and glass. A rebrand for Vancouver Convention Centre. When I first look my brain conjures up a new show for Discovery Channel by the makers of Deadliest Catch. But I'm getting specific. (05/08)

Mogwai poster by Methane Studios. Beauty. (05/07)

Berlin letters. (05/07)

Shanghai, the City of Tomorrow. (05/07)

Tooth! Or, poster by Heather Tompkins. (05/07)

Space shuttle launch photos. More spectacular than one might think. The first two, anyway. (05/07)

Pasta Playa' Hate'a! (05/07)

DIY solar-powered iPhone charger. Nifty. (05/07)

Great concepts for Disney's Star Wars Weekend posters. (05/06)

New brand for the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. "...like an uncomfortable thorn that just won’t go away, bitterly like the disease itself." (05/06)

Not sure what to call this, but I really like it a lot. (05/06)

PUMA City. Anyone in the Boston area?! (05/05)

Amazing Communist sculptures in Yugoslavia, photographed by Jan Kempenaers. (05/05)

House D. I want to go to there. (05/05)

Sticky Note experiment, from the dudes that brought us the Diet Coke/mentos thing. [dave] (05/05)

Melody Lane. Only in my dreams. (05/05)

Nathanael Thayer Moss does some beautiful line drawings. (05/05)

Fort Worth Museum gets a new brand, by DJ Stout. Geometrics, baby. (05/05)

White Rabbits' Percussion Gun. Bam bam bam! (05/04)

Rather than panic, please read a great follow-up interview with Laurie Garrett about swine flu, seasonal flu in general, and why packing 500,000 pigs together isn't the best idea. (05/01)

The CDC has a Twitter account. Actually, very good idea. (05/01)

Extreme fishing. You heard me. (05/01)

Car design straight out of Iran. I'd drive the D7 in a heartbeat. (05/01)

New York Times article about redesigning the highway sign font. (05/01)

Great work from Aldo Shoes. That bow-tie package alone! (05/01)

Cool drawings by Elena Xausa. (05/01)

Lovely work by Ben Newman. (05/01)

Is this the corner of a wall? Not sure, but beautiful. (05/01)

District 9. Documentary-style film where extraterrestrials have become refugees in South Africa. No joke. (05/01)

"Art is the highest form of hope."

— Gernhard Richter