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• Stanley Kubrick: a props odyssey. The Telegraph’s article on some of the props found amongst 900 boxes from the Stanley Kubrick archive.
• TDC22008 – The Type Directors Club have announced the winners in their eleventh open call for ‘Entries for Type Design’. Standouts for me are Ventura by Dino dos Santos and Restraint by Marian Bantjes and Ross Mills
• A Brief History of Avant Garde via Thinking for a Living™
• How many pixels! – Hasselblad’s 50 million pixel H3DII-50

• Skateboarding in the 70′s – Beautiful photographs captured by Hugh Holland
• Fifty Designers’ Current Favourite Typefaces – A typographical book project with proceeds going to Unicef’s Burma Cyclone Appeal. Buy it!
• The Big Picture – excellent photo blog from the Boston Globe
• MagCloud – A print on demand project from HP Labs that enables you to publish your own magazine and sell it via PayPal.
• 70 Amazing Business Cards via Fubiz

I love typographic based toys and Wordle created by Jonathan Feinberg. has got to be one of the best I’ve seen so far. It generates editable word clouds from user uploaded text. Prominence is given to words that appear most frequently and the generated clouds can be tweaked by layout, colour and font. Text can be directly pasted in or you can drop in your del.icio.us user name for a tag based cloud. Give it a go.

I’m guessing that every designer has used Frutiger at some point in their career. It’s a corporate staple and one of the typefaces that just works. There’s now a serif version designed by Adrian Frutiger and Akira Kobayashi, based on Adrian’s classic serif Meridien which dates back to 1957. Today also happens to be Frutiger’s 80th birthday. You can send him a birthday message here.

• World Wide Telescope – Visualisation software from Microsoft’s Research Labs that lets your computer function as a virtual telescope using images captured by ground and space based telescopes. Pretty cool but unfortunately PC only.
• Sexy, Bold And Experimental Typography – Another great Smashing Magazine showcase
• Dropbox – Secure back-up, synching and sharing made easy

• International typographics magazine ‘Baseline’ redesign their website
• What web designers can learn from games – Great article from the Guardian about the lessons web designers can take from games regarding user experience.
• Neatorama follow up their article on the evolution of tech company logos with one on the evolution of car logos

• Nya – Multi-radius type from Rocholl inspired by the Eames Aluminium Chair
• Smilers Stamps – Personalised stamps from the Royal Mail
• Barcode Yourself – Online tool that creates a personal barcode using real world metrics
• Fantastic architecture inspired bird houses from Raumhochrosen

• Archer – Nice slab serif designed for Martha Stewart Living by Hoefler & Frere-Jones
• Ask E.T – Edward Tufte on Interface design and the iPhone with accompanying video
• Twenty-Six Types of Animal – Typographic exploration from Jeremy Pettis. No wombat though!

• Time Travel Maps – Follow-ups to the original travel time maps, made using public sector data from OpenStreetMap. Via mySociety.org
• Emigre are kindly posting select essays and interviews from past issues on their website – worth checking out as their supply of back issues run out.
• iA present their 2008 Web Trend Map Beta, mapping 300 of the most ‘influential and successful’ websites to the greater Tokyo-area train map

• Paul-Rand.com – Great resource on one of the design greats, Paul Rand. They say it’s work in progress so hopefully more to come
• Typish – Image bookmarking site similar to FFFFound!
• TypeNeu – Typography News for Type Perfectionistas