From A to Z: LetterPlayground

LetterPlayground is a brand new site presented by Nate Williams where you can play with letter forms. Unleash your creativity on any (or all) 26 letters, upload and make comments and promote favorites. Nifty fun!

CQ17: Winners Announced

The winners for CQ17 have been announced. View the list of winners. CQ17 will be published in December 2009. Winners’ and runners-ups’ work will be shown on our online gallery in December as well. Our thanks goes out to all who entered. Don't forget that you can compete in CQ18, enter now.

Typedia

Typedia is a new website that is a community-based encyclopedia for typefaces. Definitely worth watching.
And you must check out their blog post on how they created their logo. You get to see the initial sketches and all the back-and-forth emails between the designer and the client. A great way to see how a project successfully comes together.

Designing Your Website

A List Apart has pulled together a couple of great articles on redesigning websites. The first article looks at the site redesign at a small advertising agency. And the second article looks at how a freelance designer redesigns her own site. Both articles show the (always difficult) process of designing your own website; sometimes you are your own worst client.

Tokyo Camera Style

Tokyo Camera Style is a great blog that documents old film cameras in Tokyo. These cameras are primarily used by young people. The camera above is a Leica Map camera with the original lens hood.
Found via Swiss-Miss

We Snap Pictures and Toot Our Own Horn

Stefan G. Bucher, talented designer/illustrator and monster-lover has just completed his newest book, The Graphic Eye: Photographs by Graphic Designers from around the Globe. And Charles and I are pleased to have our photographs included!
The Graphic Eye is published by Chronicle in the US (and Rotovision in the UK) and is due out in November.

Passions & Jupiter

This post has absolutely nothing to do with art, design, illustration or photography. Instead it is about cosmic impacts and having a passion. In case you haven't heard, a possible asteroid, about the size of the earth, crashed in Jupiter. And the person who discovered this incident? An amateur astronomer. Not NASA or any other professional organizational, but someone with a passion for astronomy and a large telescope in his backyard.
I found the man's story quite inspiring and was so impressed with his passion for his hobby. Obviously, not everyone's hobby pays off in such an unexpected way, but it illustrates the way that you can't stop yourself from pursuing your interests outside of work. You never know where it might lead.
Found via New York Times