A trailer for Marc Craste's beautiful new film Varmints has been released online
Christoph Niemann has a new blog, Abstract City, on the New York Times' site. His first post is a rather sweet illustrated tale of his sons' infatuation with the NY Subway
What the @&$?!! is a grawlix? Hoefler and Frere-Jones explain all (link: DO)
Non-Format reveal a nice new site, updated with lots of new work. Check out the FAQ section for everything you need to know about Jon and Kjell and their working process
South Carolina not "so gay", apparently...
Shepard Fairey auctions the original artwork for his Obama poster for charidee. Current bid: $60,000
The Museum of Notebooks. There's some lovely stuff here... (link: Coudal)
Noel Gallagher opens his rather large mouth once again... this time proclaiming that the new Oasis album cover art has been created by "the most expensive graphic designer in London". That's Julian House, according to Gallagher
"Ad agencies borrow from artists who borrow from advertising. Isn’t it great when things just work?" The NYT looks at the creative industry's most notorious cycle of influence...
Another chance to see Iain Follett's beautiful collection of stamps that made up our January 08 edition of Monograph (free to subscribers of CR)
A vast archive of vintage Russian advertising posters
Don't Panic has launched a competition to design a character for new PS3 game LittleBigPlanet. Deadline: August 4
Smoke & Mirrors post-production is sponsoring Blitzkrieg Bop, an exhibition at Man & Eve gallery in London, featuring work by Peter Saville, Ian Davenport and more
Designer and art director Matt Willey recently published an animation on YouTube which documents every single decision made in laying out a magazine feature
Comic Sans, applied well? Armin Vit thinks he's spotted the one good application of the typeface graphic designers love to hate (link: DO)
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