Yes Please! More closeup shots here. That’s a guaranteed hit. What do designer’s love most, Moleskines or Helvetica ? That’s a tricky one. But it doesn’t matter. No you can have both at once. I think if i had one though i might be to scared to draw in it, in case i drew something awful on the crowning page! Destined forever to be minimally blank ;)

Update: Buy them here! at Moleskine Asia.

Absolutely love this calendar. Not just because of it’s colourful information design, or the clever use of charts as typography, but the fact that each chart is actually quite funny to read when you zoom in ;)

“Admitted average number of daily farts” compared against “Average # of days people wait before openly farting in the presence of their beloved”

Designed by Me And Mister Jones - a husband and wife creative duo, Fanny Khoo and Tom Merckx. If you visit their portfolio you can see some of the details of the data :) Nice!

It’s Monster-Munch’s 1st birthday today! I’m pretty chuffed i’ve kept it going for a full circuit, and it’s mainly due to all the lovely comments you guys leave me. I just wanted to say a massive thanks to you, for popping in everyday, and making looking at my blog stats pretty exciting! Hope you’ll be popping over to see us just as much this year too : ) Here’s a round up of the year in numbers - Cheers you lot, Nicky. 

Graphic Designer / Illustrator Anthony Burrill & sculptor Michael Marriott are in the midst of nailing together their exhibition in reception. It’s open on Thursday 15th in the Biscuit Building reception, Shoreditch. To come down for a peek, please RSVP, guestlist{at}siobhansquire.com. Looking forward to seeing if there’s prints for sale. I’ll find out more and get back to you ;)

Streamline for 2009! Yes, that’s the way forward. If you only aim to get one thing done today - then you’ll probably complete your to-do list. Ah, that’s true satisfaction ;) Stationary available from Pretty Bitter.

Not sure how authentic some of these designs are ;) Some nice old type and illustration - See more here.

Apple Oh, Open. Sweet idea :) By Jules Tardy of LCC, on FFF.

Spotted on the fabulous SuperPunch! Typographic design by Vlad Studio. You can download it here. Lovely work.

What do guns, axes, grenades, eagles, otters and penguins have in common? Absolutely nothing til now. They’ve been montaged ( is that a word ? ) together to make this beautiful illustration above. Would look great as a textile print. I’ve not got much info on it - mail me if you do - but i found it mixed in with a bunch of crazy images here. Down a random rabbit hole on the web. Also, and very special it is too, is the proud fashion statement made by the lady above. Waste-not-want-not in these credit crunching times eh? Now, that’s fashion thrift.

… Apparently! How do they squeeze in there? It’s hard enough for humans! A great Lomo taken by artist, self-taught photographer and cyclist, Ed Scoble. Check out his Flickr, his LomoHome and his blog here. Reminds me of the classic MrLomo news snap, Asteroid.

And while you’re there, absolutely don’t miss MrLomo’s Sign Collection. It’s second to none! You’ll be rummaging around in there for hours.

FontShuffle - a new App from the FontShop. A neat way of identifying fonts without knowing their name, or finding something fresh when you fancy a break from Helvetica ;)

“Hundreds of font families are sorted by visual similarity into a visual family tree… Just shake the device and six new options appear... Display your favourite font as a sample text, or test your font dynamically using your own words. Turn the screen to have a look at the glyph chart.”

Download it here.

I’d like to know how closely these pictograms mimic the actual characters they represent. Are they still readable in Japanese ? ( Sachiko can you tell me ? ). A great way of helping you recognise and memorize foods if they are. Interested to know if it’s more for art than a practical tool ? The original Tamalog article in Japanese. Have a look and see what you think. It would make a lovely poster either way.

Update: Uriana Let me know that they are in fact Chinese characters.

I’ve had these in my ‘To Blog’ folder for so long i can’t remember where i spotted them! But i wanted to share them anyway. I thought the colour palette and typography on these two were great. Some of them are so retro they look super modern. I wasn’t sure if the trainer boxes were toothpaste, or cigarette packaging at first. Oh! - found it the top one is from MoonStar the lower one from Laboratorium, the sam guys that created the Never Ending Tape Calendar. Lots of stuff to see there.

Update: The badges are in fact Yugoslavian ( Croatian ). My apologies to Marko.

What a wicked idea. Two rolls of tape, and you get a calendar that works for any year, forever. Well… for as long at the roll lasts ;) Awesome. You can stick it any where - in your sketch book, on your kitchen wall, in your office. Lovely looking type too. Spotted on Reuben Miller’s packing tape review. ( Shit, how geeky does that sound! ). Design/Concept by the typographically skilled chaps at Laboratorium in Croatia. I want it!

Lovely book cover! ‘Batman’ looks so much cooler in Japanese. All the letter forms have bat ears ;) I’d love a giant screen print of this. And what’s that behind Batman!! Some sort of Mummy ?