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.

To commemorate George Nelson’s 100th birthday, Vitra has released a limited edition of the Pretzel Chair (orginally designed in 1952). Though Nelson is known for his furniture design, he was a well-rounded designer who explored working in many disciplines.

Notes from Russia: Hand-Made Street Notices by Alexei Plutser-Sarno, is a recently published book by the design and publishing house FUEL.

The Brooklyn Bridge celebrates its 125th Anniversary on May 24, 2008.

Fun new screen-prints by illustrator Andy Smith.

Johnny Kelly, a former student at the Royal College of Art, created a unique animated video about Procrastination.

Studio Smack has designed an animated trailer for the upcoming Graphic Design Festival Breda in the Netherlands.

Kate Andrews writes about what it means to be a “Good” designer.

An incredibly fun new book in honor of the 35th Anniversary of Wacky Packs. The book has an introduction by Art Spiegelman.

Tales from Earthsea from Studio Ghibli.

This is the first film for director Goro Miyazaki (Hayao Miyazaki’s son)

Behind the Scenes of Book Cover Designer

A great video podcast with John Gall from Vintage Books (division of Knopf).

Very unique music video for The Birds and the Bee’s song “Again and Again” using the mac OSX desktop by a digital filmmaker named Dennis Liu.

Nicole Peterson redesigns the book covers for Dante’s Divine Comedy, using simple shapes and bold colors.

Fully Booked showcases some of the most innovative books being published today. Shown here is Pete Sampson’s Tiling Books.

House of Concepts: Design Academy Eindhoven is a new book that showcases the unique work of students who have graduated from the school (including Tord Boontje’s work shown here)

A review with a selection of interior photographs for Phaidon’s newly released AREA_2.

Shepard Fairey redesigns covers for the classics - Animal Farm and 1984 - for Penguin!

An informative video showing how the 1983 HBO Intro produced.

Jordan Crane has illustrated 3 separate belly bands for the new Michael Chabon book, Maps and Legends. (published by McSweeney’s)

A great article “examining the influence of color in the institutions of art and fashion Spring 2008...” The feature looks to MOMA’s Color Chart exhibition for inspiration.

An overview of some highlights from the Stefan Sagmeister exhibition at Deitch Projects in Soho.

A small collection of vintage Valentine’s Day cards, circa 1920s. Most of the cards are addressed to a woman named Martha Stewart.

A striking collaboration of Charles Burns, Chris Ware and Chip Kidd within the book design of Chip Kidd’s follow-up to The Cheese Monkeys, The Learners.

This is an interesting excerpt from AIGA Paperbacks: U.S.A. An Exhibition of Covers (September 1959 /April 1961).

Designed by Philip Grushkin

A collection of photographs from IDEAS magazine (from Barcelona 1936). The collection highlights the vintage typography and lettering throughout two issues.

Many well respected book cover designers have taken their stab at designing a cover for J.G Ballard’s Crash. Now, Times Online and HarperCollins are opening a competition to the public for a new cover design of this 1973 classic.

The Cortina electric kettle (by Metaphys) was presented at 100% Design Tokyo Week last month.

Sparkle and Spin is a playful collaboration between Ann and Paul Rand. It was originally published in 1957 by Harcourt Brace. Chronicle Books gave it a second life in 2006.

Not Just Cartoons, Nicktoons collects all 31 original cartoons from the Nickelodeon studio in one book. Gel-filled cover - behind-the-scenes commentary, storyboards, interviews , etc.

Typography with Unusual Materials: I really like type when it is more than black marks on paper. Here is a video featuring typography using odd materials by Kris Moyes.