A cute caged bird, pop-up plant leaves, pink paper and elegant type, for a deliciously sweet show of design skills in this invite for a fashion client by Daniel Baer.

'Vanishing Point', incredibly graphic and inspiring new video by Takuya Hosogane.

'Create=Resist". The Graphic Design Dpt of ESAD, a french art school that gave many great recent illustrators and graphists, is endangered: Students made a creative blog to protest. Powerful images.

Top Fonts of 2009, by YouWorkForThem: handwritten type was definitely the trend of the year.

First sneak peek from 'The Exquisite Book' project to be published in fall!!

The 100 best posters from the poster4tomorrow contest are out: Freedom of Expression as a graphic manifesto.

Greek design studio Kanella presents this "Happy and Sweet 2010" calendar: 12 chocolate bars, to be eaten each month. Minimalist design classic inspiration.

Nathalie Lete painted on walls and windows in the shop "Usagi pour toi" in Tokyo for 2 days.

'Sweet Treats', an upcoming typographical cookbook by Amanda Woodward, great preview on issuu.

Sneak peek from Jeremy Fish's studio !

Suitcases as storage, like many other beautiful ideas by designer Lotty Lindeman from Netherlands.

A one-page-preview for the much awaited book: Graphic Design Referenced, by Byrony Gomez-Palacio and Armin Vit.

Up-and-coming studio Icinori created the new 'Indica Ritual' visual concept, and it's great!

'Neurath, Bliss and Language of the Pictogram', an essay by Phil Patton: Otto Neurath's Isotype and Blissymbolics in perspective, or how to go past the failings of language inventing a new -graphic- one. A must-read!

Welcome to BomboLand (italian designer Maurizio Santucci) !

"The city is our office.": WorkSnug, an augmented reality application to find the best places to work at, is coming soon... Stop using your eyes, use your mobile instead.

Beautiful insipration from Hiroshige and Klimt in this upcoming children book 'La colère de Banshee' (Banshee's anger) by talented David Sala.

Every single piece of the dutch design studio Tas-ka is just lovely, from their tea-cosies to their house-shaped wooden plates, but my favorite is their paper-cranes lamps... so poetic !

Lizzie Allen creates wonderful hand-screen-printed wallpapers. Her patterns are inspired by illustrations from the 50's (here is her 'london city gents' theme).

Damien Correll provided some art for a De'Longhi espresso machine that will be auctioned for charity. Classic sobriety, yet designer touch indeed.

Olivier Byrne's 'Book of Euclid' (1847) is a graphical achievement, even if a pedagogical failure : 4 colors, dots and squares... just whoa !

Full 'Making of' for the stunning "Hope" lamp designed by Francisco Gomez and Paolo Rizzato. Inspiration, conception, industrial fabrication, every step is documented. "Que la lumière soit!"

Alice, Hansel & Gretel, Little Red Riding Hood... Katogi Mari finds her inspiration in european classic tales and gives them new perspective with a candid acrylic&gouache style.

"From the ordinary", Guillaume Ninove builds architectural illustration like bas-relief to express some "realistic and poor ordinary beauty".

"GrandPapier", a base camp for daily comics and drawings, with more than 160 artists contributing. What a daily dose of doodling !

A volume mandala built from folded paper by italian duo Jekyll&Hyde... then swept away ! Thought as an epitome of the irony behing clever graphic design artifacts soon 'becoming the tomorrow garbage'.

Ink painting by Lucie Beranger, delicate and chic.

'Knot Tied: A History of Gay Marriage Bans', stunningly clear timeline of changing laws by GOOD and Timko & Klick.

'Terrible Yellow Eyes' : a growing online collection of artworks as a tribute to 'Where the wild things are', an initiative by Cory Godbey.

Matali Crasset has just completed the interior design of 'La Maison des Petits' (House for the little ones) at the 104, Paris. Complete review with technical details on Dezeen.

Drawings by Nora Tujague. Fresh and powerful.

Found this little video by chance today and it just made my day ! Incredibly funky : Dancing headphones, by Beshart studio from Belgium.

Very talented Ann Wood offers a full DIY project as a guest in D*S : little cardboard horses running through walls !

"A logo is only as good as the entity it stands for"... Interesting reading : "When Bad Things happen to Good Logos" by Steven Heller.

"Montgolfier", new print by "Icinori", DIY project by Mayumi Otero and Raphael Urwiller.

Funky "Lost" cake, made by Charm City Cakes to celebrate the 100th episode !

Flawless logo design by young Julien Castanié for the "French Union of Arts and Artists"

When searching for something, anything... I'll always go back to the "Artist series" by Hillman Curtis : Paula Scher, Milton Glaser, Mark Romanek, Lawrence Weiner... So much to watch, listen, learn, remember, do.

"Plastic Life" by 20 100 (Vincent Bousserez, who does great urban landscapes too)

What's up there ? (Gaëlle Carton is playing with her drawings around her house...)

"Morgenrot" : early-20th rushes from the Congress Library and old postal cards, for the most poetic video ever... Animated by Jeff Desom, with music by Hauschka.

"Circus Violet" is the really cute new collection of porcelain, prints and stamps, from Studio Violet (Camilla and Elisabeth) from Sweden.

Feminine and floral, art by Eriko Hata.

Sobriété, photography, by "Monsieur Be"