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Japanese Toys

[japanese_toys.jpg]BibliOdyssey, one of my favorite places on the Web, comes through again with a collection of watercolor sketches of Japanese to...

Richard Powers

[Pwrs_Alpha6.jpg] via Boingboing, Hedonia has some information about, and images by, Richard Powers, who pretty much defined the look of science f...

Flash animations

Space Alone and The Circle Of Life, award-winning short Flash animations by Ilias Sounas. (via MetaFilter)

get ready to mutate

Getting away from design for a minute, it seems that a rotating binary star system may be poised to emit a beam of highly focused gamma radiation a...

smashing posters

Smashing Magazine has created a big long list of "breathtaking typographic posters."  Lots of great-looking stuff. [2005.jpg]

the truest black in the world

Scientists have developed a substance that sucks illumination out of the surrounding environment, making it 30 times blacker than the next blackest...

you should know

[rabbit!] Marc Johns has something important to tell you.

New York past and present

A featuring Douglas Levere's 60-year-later recreations of Berenice Abbott’s New York images. The side-by-side comparisons are surpr...

Tactical Media

From Matt Yglesias at the Atlantic, a timely example of old-fashioned guerrilla media.[billboardliberaton.jpg]

More Beirut

The Atlantic Online has a nice short article on typography by Virginia Postrel, once again featuring Michael Beirut.

GOTV Poster Design

An until now neglected link to the AIGA's terrific quadrennial Get Out The Vote poster design effort. [aiga_gotv04.jpg]

Political Branding

From the Newsweek blog, a discussion with Michael Beirut of the political uses of typography and design, focusing on the Obama brand.[Change.jpg]

Graphis from the past

[grphs57thumb.jpg] The Nonist has been uploading choice images from some old annuals of Graphis, the graphic design magazine.  In this one, ...

Killer Engagement Ring

[killer_ring.jpg] The engagement ring that says, "Here, scar somebody with this."Designed by Tobias Wong.

Astronomy and Books

From the NYT, an article on a historical survey of Astronomy at the Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum in Chicago. The books are particularly n...

Information Design of Minor Data

Didn't get a chance to post this at the time, but the NYT had this very effective (call it Tufte-esque) graphic after the Super Bowl. I don't think...

designing democracy

[design11550.jpg]via DesignObserver, Dan Pink is unimpressed with the design of the American voting process.  There are one or two thoughts on how...

Peter Callesen

[Peter Callesen] Peter Callesen is a Danish artist who works in cut paper. The detail is incredible.

Skyscraper Farms

[vue_nocturne.jpg]Apparently some people are expecting agriculture to go vertical by 2050.

2008 Animated Short Oscar nominees

All the nominees for Best Animated Short are online here. My favorite, at least in terms of look, is Moya Lyubov (My Love), from Russia, which is ...