Best wishes to all!

May we all have a wonderful year in 2010!

Wolverine’s 35th anniversary art

This year, Wolverine celebrated his 35th anniversary — even though he is famed to be a lot older than that, he fought in the first world war, remember? Anyway, Marvel pulled a nice one, producing a lot of covers with Wolverine as if he were drawn by some of the most fameous artists in history: Van Gogh, Klimt, Utamaro, Dali and many more. Read more about it here: Wolverine Art Appreciation Month.

Here are some of my favourites:

Get your own Periodic Table of Typefaces

Remember the Periodic Table of Typefaces? Well, you can print your own now—thanks to the high demand, the kind folks at Squidspot can send you the vector files—donating is of course encouraged. I surely got mine already—I couldn’t consider myself a type-fan without having this on my wall :P

You can also buy the new versions, printed silver on black or white:

China admits no mistake—seriously

All is more than clear now: don’t ever fuck with China. They’re this serious:

An instructor aligns the formation of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Airborne Corps during a training session at the 60th National Day Parade Village on the outskirts of Beijing, September 15, 2009. (REUTERS/Joe Chan).

Don’t say you haven’t been warned!

(via Boston)

Singing In The Rain Stormtrooper

Too much fun not to post it :)

(via jlist)

Designer fun
— who cares about typography anyway?

PvP just made my day, coming up with one of the funniest strips ever (I’m talking about designers’ kind of fun, of course). Not to mention true. Many times I amuse myself realising how many of my shopping choices are influenced by packaging and typography—whoa, that olive oil bottle uses Rotis for the ingredients, look how tiny and legible it is! :)).

You can see the strip in full size on their site.

(via FontFeed)

Comic Sans — to hate or not to hate

A fun, interesting and tought-provoking short documentary about the typeface we all love to hate: Comic Sans. Makes you think that nothing must be taken lightly, especially when it comes to human perceptions (and design in general).

Here’s a challenge:
try designing a logo using Comic Sans (that’s not for a cartoon magazine, of course :P).

Comic Sans from Sam and Anita on Vimeo.

(via design observer)

Must have samurai umbrella!

There is no doubt, if they have international shipping, I’m getting one! No one will stand in my way >:) If you’re interested too, get your own here, from ThinkGeek (Jedi fans, get your lightsaber umbrella here).

(thanks Andrei for finding it!)

Power to the logos

Well, who would’ve imagined that after the last elections, even logos would turn black&proud :))

Power to the peo...tyres!

Actually, it’s just an image promoting Blender Pro, an excellent Crouwel-grid-like typeface from Gestalten. It reminds me a lot of Gridnick, published by The Foundry, another great foundry (talk about naming, heh)—their Form Sans and Serif family is wonderful as well.

Mickey’s Wave To Hokusai—by Jaybo

A very interesting—and funny—take on Hokusai’s “The Great Wave of Kanagawa“, made by Jaybo—aka Monk, a french graffiti artist who recently exposed his works as projections on the Berliner Dom.

You can read an interview here. And if you’re interested, you can see some other Hokusai’s Wave interpretations here.

(sources: digesting design, iconiconic, style mag)