The gag is ok, but the logo is outstanding!

I’m loving the site and work of this feller named Aaron James Draplin. Not only does he do nice work himself, he archives sign  & design gems of yesteryear like this and this.
Check him aht. One cool mofo.

How do you like to search? And more importantly, how do you like to have your search results displayed? Alphabetically? By category?
No? Too conventional? Okay, let’s mix it up and give your your results according to the insanely intuitive yardstick of the number of characters in the question?
Only in this universe could the questions “What [...]

This is the web gold of the day, kids. It’s the Etchasketchist. All hail.
Everyone from Phil Spector to LaMarcus Aldridge, lovingly represented on the Etch-a-Skizzle.

CHECK IT

Very cool, beautifully designed personal annual report of, er, some guy.

GO LOOK

Here’s another link from Yanko Design, which, for some weird reason, is totally compelling to me at the moment. The whole thing is like a Jacques Tati movie.
Check this thing out:

In domestic environments buckets are used in endless ways - whether it is for cleaning purposes, washing your feet, cooling beer or carrying something. With [...]

This is a pretty cool list, whether or not you’re a designer. It’s 60 places, both online and off, to get inspired.
Dig in

I’m really digging Bob Krawczyk’s fantastic amateur archival site of Toronto architecture.
Warning: right now, it’s dead slow and riddled with errors. I suspect it’s being hammered thanks to an article by Catherine Dawson March in today’s Globe and Mail.
Check it out

UPDATE: Immediately after I wrote this, I noticed that Boing Boing has a riff on it as well. But he didn’t use any swear words, so mine’s more fun.
Quietly tucked in amongst the breathless, fawning and almost completely uncritical reviews of the iPhone, I found a blog entry from PC World (Oh, the irony!) containing [...]

The whole Dove Revolution campaign did a great job of showing the world how much art goes into making real people look like billboard models. And it’s hardly a surprise.
I just came across the site of a prominent retouching specialist, Glenn Feron. It lets you see before and after photos in the same environment, and [...]