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

Psyop’s crow animation is black & white & super slick

Google Me the Movie, a documentary [Editor's Note: a movie of google-gangers #9873]

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

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

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).

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

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.

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.)

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

“The Graphics of Japanese Dog” by Kazuya Takaoka and Sachiko Kuru shows off the brilliance of the Japanese bred dogs that playfully narrate this very visual book.

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

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.

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.

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.

Campana Brothers Design in London at the V&A

Neoprene suits aren't just for diving

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

An enviable collection of vintage Type Foundry Specimen book covers

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

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

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]

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

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

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.

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

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...