Gorgeous gardens at Cawdor Castle, the "legendary" home of Macbeth...

The PLAY issue of Otaku magazine is jam packed with interesting content and includes an interactive DVD and a pullout New York Poster by EbOY...

A few vintage advertisements showing examples of illustration and lettering styles from 1960 found in a National Geographic magazine.

The new claymation film from director Tatia Rosenthal and writer Etgar Keret, $9.99, hopefully will make its way to a theatre near you soon. Trailer looks amazing...

Si Scott's one-of-a-kind hand lettering is spotted on a new book cover "Beautiful Creatures." Can't wait to see this one in person...

A much younger Bill O'Reilly introduces Mario and Luigi while going behind the scenes at Nintendo headquarters back in 1988. Go down memory lane while watching the old video clip for a Nintendo segment on Inside Edition.

designer Angela Voulangas' portfolio includes the beautiful book 'The Handy Book of Artistic Printing: A Collection of Letterpress Examples' which she coauthored and designed with Doug Clouse.

The Harvard Review literary journal gets a beautiful redesign by Alex Camlin.

The little owls in Linda Solovic's paper collage illustrations are too cute!!

Picador cover designer Henry Sene Yee writes a little about designing covers for the author J.G. Ballard (who sadly passed away today).

A brief time warp to design in 1987 courtesy of an old Step-By Step Graphics Magazine (including looking back at the California Raisins)

Unique collage work made with found materials delicately mixed with photography + illustration by Ali Campbell in the UK.

The new + impressive 2009 interactive demo reel for Fake-Up Studios is up.

Industrial designer Aaron Tang uses mechanical hinges and pistons in this design to hide stairs flush against the wall to save space.

'Stop Designing, Start Playing' is the motto printmaker Wendy Chapple and designer Coralie Bickford-Smith pass onto students at the London College of Communication.

Gabriele Wilson, usually known for her delicate, gorgeous book cover designs, has designed the signage and identity for Blue Marble ice cream shop in Brooklyn.

Author Douglas Coupland uses innovative marketing and typographic stop-motion animation for his new book, The Gum Thief.

As a student project Mathew Zurlinden designed a birdhouse made from a cinder block.

Inky illustrations by London based Designer (originally from Bangkok), Pomme Chan

As a senior designer at Knopf and the art director for Vertical Press, an independent Japanese-American publisher, Peter has risen to become part of the lineup of designers for Random House.

A round up of the ©Murakami exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum as well as video of Murakami from the press conference.

Great design and editorial illustration work by Brooklyn-based Tyler Lang.

A clever and timely spin on the self promotional mailer by Brooklyn-based interactive studio FreshThrills.

Letterpress Typography ... A mini-documentary about Firefly Press goes through some of the process as filmmaker, Chuck Kraemer, narrates and asks some interesting and important questions at the end.

Purchasing 1 FEED Bag = 1 Hungry Child Fed for 1 School Year in a developing nation.

Designer Will Staehle incorporates beautiful, historical typographic treatments into much of his work...

Steampunkish Tunnels , subterranean tunnel networks, or these images from what appears to be an old(?) underground metro system.

Kids with Cameras is a non-profit organization that teaches the art of photography to marginalized children around the world. A direct result of the amazing documentary Born into Brothels.

Masafuni Arita is a textile designer who uses Japanese and Scandinavian folklore in his compositions.

UK based illustrator Ben O'brien's overly vibrant portfolio will make you smile.

Russian designer, Andrey Vostrikov, designed an oil-filled radiator that is covered with a coarse-cellular net. This allows people to dry things without fear of damage (or worse).

Chris Ware had a feature animation incorporated into the third episode of a television series This American Life. (There should be a second season coming to Showtime sometime soon.)

The At This Rate booklet and poster were produced to raise awareness of the destruction of the Amazon rainforest for the US-based charity Rain forest Action Network.

On October 30th, HarperCollins is releasing a revised and updated edtion of Bizarre Books: A Compendium of Classic Oddities by Russel Ash and Brian Lake. The book is a survey of some of the most absurd content and book jackets from the past—definitely a conversation starter...

Felt Mouse: This wireless mouse is made from natural wool felt and laminated bamboo ply.

Sia’s Breathe Me (2004) was produced/directed by Sydney-based studio Collider. Seeing how Polaroid announced that it will no longer be manufacturing their cult-favorite film, that makes this video all the more interesting.

A robotic arm that writes calligraphy is programmed to write out the entire Martin Luther bible on a long roll of paper.

French design student, Jean-Yves Blondeau, has created a very eccentric clothe full of wheels, which allows him to rolls down everywhere from different perspectives and positions [Ed. also seen in #6373]

Colbert Report Clip: Shepard Fairey talks with Stephen Colbert about how his political Obama works became the official imagery for the President elect in this video.

An unusual map of The United States made of only individual road segments by Ben Fry.

Full coverage of the Pictoplasma Festival in New York, including photos from Friends with You, Tim Biskup, Tokyoplastic, Fons Schiedon, and more...

John Adams illustrates a smart octopus and tortoise for McSweeney's Quarterly Concern.

Eric Cai Shi Wei Life Clock for WWF China asks, "If we could turn back the clock, what would you do for them?"

"To promote membership in AIGA, Esquer envisioned a campaign that would abandon a sterile corporate façade."

Seb Lester gives the new cover of Business Week a lovely + striking typographic solution.

The Tenth Annual Armory Show brought together exhibitors from 21 countries and featured some of the latest work created by living artists.