If you’ve got some amazing idea, or pop culture crush, or fantastic set of images that you’ve just GOT to apply to as many mediums as possible, consider this: cookie cutters. Especially around and in the holidays, these are always going to be big sellers, even the lesser-holidays love cookies! I believe today that designer Beverly Hsu’s hit a bit of a jackpot, provided she slides through the font-ownership rules like a breeze, with these cutters made to produce cookies in perfect Helvetica letterforms!
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I’ll tell you what. It’s hard to make a really good poster. It’s easy to make a really good basic poster. If you want to make a garage sale sign, you need to write on there GARAGE SALE TODAY and an arrow. That’s the best thing to do for a garage sale. If you’re going to make a poster and you’re going to cut and paste some vintage graphics, you’re going to screw up. Unless you’re this guy. This guy right here, the one in this post, he’s really really good at this. And he’s got the typography right. So very right.
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Hooray for photographer Landry A! It’s a fabulously graphic-minded photo-taker who covers both au-natural photographs AND unnatural design. I jest, of course, as all good design is natural as the grass. What L.A. has done here is to keep a photo series going of all the excellence in the several countries Landry is able to visit on a regular (and irregular) basis. The set you’re about to peek and flip through is out of Africa. Black and white and color are two separate sets, I’m sure you’ll be able to tell which is which.
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All the noodity of lovely bare-legged type. That’s what nakedtype.com was gonna be all about. Juan Carlos Pagan had an idea for a type foundry exploring the perceived humanistic qualities of letters. If you take a look now by clicking http://nakedtype.com/ you’ll see it’s parked by godaddy. We talkin future baybay! For now, while you wait, there’s several really pretty posters for you to peek at. Each of these in the set is 24″ x 32″ printed on medium-weight bright-white paper.
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As Emigre turns 25, FontFeed celebrates with a big huge post (you’ve gotta click that), and World Famous Design Junkies gets buckwild. I saw this fantastically red book cover that you see above* and said OH my goodness this is a good cover. The colors. The colors are so lovely I can scarcely believe it. This doesn’t happen just every 10 minutes, so I said to myself then that it was time, OMFG!

Time for the very first World Famous Design Junkies color retrospective!
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So here we are, hello. You all remember the punk rock record shop Extreme Noise; the one World Famous Design Junkies had a mini tour in, right? If you don’t remember that, or would like a refresher, click this so hard: so hard click it. Then take a peek! What we’ve got here is a project by your friend and mine, designer and fashionista Sarah Kissell: she’s taken Extreme Noise and sterilized it. What is punk rock made of?

Studs and chords and stinky feet!
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Nick Sanchez has a design portfolio on the internet and indeed Nick Sanchez is a designer. I want to show you at least a couple things that he’s done. One of them is this book called “Designers on Design” which has a quote that goes “Try something else. That took me fucking forever to figure out.” – Chip Kidd. The other is the picture above: the mutant poster holder technique.
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So I was hanging out on the Japan side of the internet and I happened upon a design team by the name of COMMUNE. They’ve got some lovely designs, some unique explosions of color, and these fabulous New Years cards / business cards. They’re pressure printed! On some book board, no less. That means they are thick. 2mm thick.
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Oxfam: “A group of non-governmental organizations from three continents working worldwide to fight poverty and injustice.” Designers at HeyStudio: turnin up the visual heat. Tilman Solé y Verónica Fuerte of HEY bring you just the right formulae of letters-to-grenades. Ratio perfect. Take a look at the posters as well as the ephemera that remind the world how nice’n'design-conscious Oxfam can be.
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