Homer Simpson will experience some trouble with the design of the voting machines in the upcoming "Treehouse of Horror" episode which timely airs two days before the U.S. Presidential Election...

Last weekend the redesigned Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) opened in its new location at Columbus Circle in New York City. Pentagram designed the identity and extensive branding materials. Michael Bierut led the team...

10-question interview with designer/artist Blake E. Marquis. He will be in the upcoming group show "Park Life", curated by Studio Number One, which opens at LA's Subliminal Projects on Oct. 4th.

Beautiful figurative paintings by Tessar Lo.

After 50 years the U.S. penny will finally get a redesign.

With Halloween about a month off, the Little Ghostie screen-prints by Billy Davis are perfect for the occasion...

Gateways: International Exhibition of Book Covers is a beautifully curated show inside a shopping center in Portugal. The exhibition catalog is filled with info and inspiration pertaining to the field of book cover design...

Sigrid Jelambi, a designer from Caracas, has a great portfolio of vinyl wall interiors and other decorative designs for spaces such as cafés, restaurants, beauty shops...

UK based illustrator Adrian Johnson has an incredible, light-heated portfolio of illustrated characters. The agency BBH teamed up with him last year for a series of adorable animated tv commercials...

Whimsical and fun illustrations by Maia Valenzuela.

The dust jacket for Nick Harkaway's debut novel, "The Gone-Away World" is made with hot pink fuzzy felt!

Some of Akinori Oishi's characters come to life in his unusual, but cute interactive flash game "Opniyama..."

Jacob Covey, Art Director for Fantagraphics, has an incredible portfolio of repackaged comic collections, including the redesign of the 1980s comic book classic "Love and Rockets."

The unique work of Russian illustrator and photographer, Dmitry Maksimov, is filled with imaginary characters placed into real-life settings. The feel of his work is reminiscent of Hayao Miyazaki...

New blog started by Jason Gabbert that focuses on beautiful book cover design. Every Monday he features a new designer and book cover design, and goes behind the scenes with discussions about process.

A very nice illustration portfolio by Jose Ortiz, aka "Jo."

To kick off the Pictoplasma NYC conference, artists were invited to draw elaborate character illustrations on black boards during the opening party...

MOMA's Home Delivery exhibition part 2 is located outside the museum on a vacant lot. For this part of the exhibition MOMA commissioned 5 prefabricated homes, which you can walk through...

"A Pantheon of Media Gods" is a hilarious and smart series of prints by Jessie Rauch (part of her 2008 Graduate Thesis at RISD). The series "transforms media celebrities into Greek Gods"...

Pixel artist Paul Robertson, creates a bizarre, "joyful mess" which is infused with manga, anime and pop culture themes...

Artist Tyler Stout has an impressive body of illustration work with hand-drawn lines and intricate detail.

Lisa Fyfe designed a really interesting jacket for Paul Auster's new book "Man in the Dark." In person you can see the subtle printing effects which adds to the beautiful package.

With the movie "How To Lose Friends and Alienate People" due out soon, its a good time to take a look at what the cover design for the original book its based on looks like - by Cooley Design Lab

Jeremy Kennedy's small-sized canvas paintings of vintage cameras in the 'Luvs' series . This one is of the Polaroid 180...

Awesome portfolio of music gig posters by Sarah Blacksher.

Beautiful type design by Marian Bantjes (yet again). This time integrated in a book cover design...

Tokidoki co-founder and Creative Director Simone Legno— in an informative interview going behind the scenes of the Tokidoki brand, recent collaborations, design process, and upcoming projects.

A clever, multi-language, 12-month calendar designed by Marc O’Brien. The calendar is divided in half (northern and southern hemispheres) and shows photography of the respective clothing for each month...

Terra launches their nicely designed new site for the Beijing Summer Olympics 2008. The agency who designed the site was Avenue A / Razorfish...

Really cool end table designed by George Farkas from 1949. This will be part of an exhibition with a focus on "Tropical Modernism,” opening at the Harn Museum in October 2008.

A really nice student project: typographical poster for Pilsen 2015

Mike Perry’s new book Over & Over: A Catalog of Hand-Drawn Patterns is now available. Its a great resource and serves as a directory for some incredible talents.

Another example of Barack Obama inspired art: the cute "Obamaphant" by illustrator Zara Gonzalez.

A refreshingly beautiful cover and interior book design pages for the Oxford Great English-Slovene Dictionary, by Tomato Košir.

A really nice illustration portfolio by Nate Williams from Buenos Aires, including silkscreen pillows for Urban Outfitters.

These giant letters in Amsterdam are perfect for climbing and people watching. The letters spell out the motto for the city of Amsterdam. KesselsKramer created the concept...

A very long interview with the artist Shepard Fairey (including podcast).

UPPERCASE Gallery is getting ready for an upcoming exhibition with the theme “Old School” which takes a look at ephemera from 20th century education.

"Thoughts on Democracy” is a great exhibition of political posters inspired by Norman Rockwell's “Four Freedoms” posters. The show at the Wolfsonian Museum features designs from Paula Scher, Chip Kidd, Kate Spade, Daniel Arsham, Seymour Chwast...

A video with the founder of Hammerpress, Brady Vest. It's a nice look at a letterpress artist at work.

The cover designs for Volume III in Penguin UK's Great Ideas series looks back towards classics of the past.

Beautiful wallpaper designs and illustration work by the artist Laura Williams.

Oded Ezer talks about one of his latest beautiful typography experiments, “The Finger” at TypoBerlin 2008. “The Finger” is best viewed in a video which shows the complexity of the piece, some of which isn’t as visible in 2-D representation.

Wired Science has a great video interview with science photographer Felice Frankel. She recently had work included in MOMA’s Design and the Elastic Mind exhibition.