Lots of Ideas, One Condensed Typeface

A big art and design exposition in Denver.

A New Era, A Not-So-New Typeface

The President's budget is set in Gill Sans. What does it mean that the designers chose a classic 20th Century English font for the cover?

more funny statements

These were painted (?). Acrylic on paper says the site.
(Via thebeholder)

New Math

Math + Words =

(via MoreNewMath)

The Crisis of Credit Visualized

Brilliant motion graphic video using kinetic typography and simple symbols to explain the credit crisis. I finally understand.

HD Version: link

Jackie Casey and her MIT Posters

Jackie Casey was, for many years in the 1970s and 80s, a designer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA. She developed a minimalist typographic approach to the many art and technology poster projects that came through the university publications office. Here's a link to her work. And a link to a Flickr collection.

Color Palette Generator

There's lots of them out there.
This one's cool cause it lets you upload a photo and generate the palette from that. So you can upload you favorite classical art piece, where masters have spent their entire lives studying color and what works well together, and yoink their color choices.
http://www.cssdrive.com/imagepalette/index.php