You just have to love the Swiss. They have one of the most beautiful countries, great chocolate, handy knives, their soldiers throw around their guns willy-nilly on passenger trains and they are nuts about design. Especially about Helvetica. Helvetica is to Switzerland as fat asses are to America.

Even the trash bags have typography - much nicer than the jack-o-lantern trash bags you see all over the midwest during Halloween. Anyways, in order to throw out the trash here you need to buy region specific garbage bags which have a disposal-tax included. Each region has their own garbage bag design.

Thanks to Swissmiss for posting this story. Check out her blog for more great design.

I wasn’t a huge fan of the origional song but this is cute.

I need to stop posting so many posters but I can’t help it. I am addicted.

Only 75 were printed so get one while you can. From the creative mind of Nate Duval.

I found these photographs of abandoned London pools to be extremely interesting. The pools are gorgeous but I wonder why no one is using them.

From BLDG Blog

Polar Inertia’s newest issue featuring beautiful photographs of abandoned swimming pools throughout the greater London area.

… “From marble-clad baths dripping in history to modern leisure centres echoing with lifeguards’ whistles, London is swimming in them.”
Except, of course, many of its pools are also drained and forgotten.

The photos here are all by Gigi Cifali, who originally trained as a topographer, from a series called “Absence of Water.” The images document the disused pools of London – and there are many more of these photos to be seen over at Polar Inertia or on Cifali’s own website.

A ton of vintage posters. Yumm. Check them out.

Via Bob Staake

It’s a monkey on a bike.

OK, this has nothing to do with anything but who cares. Monkeys are always funny.

Wayne Pate has a bunch of really great prints. Again, just showing more love for simple shapes and bold colors.

Check out the rest of his prints.

Sometime we all need a good kick in the pants, be it in our professional or personal lives. I have been neglecting my blog and then I saw these great posters. These are much better than than those lame ‘motivational’ posters you see in lame corporate and high school guidance counselor’s offices all over the world.

There is a set of four and and I suggest you pick up one or two Here.

From Orange Beautiful

All of the prints were printed by hand (in a limited edition of 100 each) on our large-format GOCCO printer. They’re 8×10″ in size (so, easy-as-pie to frame) - and they’re available on our Etsy shop for $12/each or all four for $40!

Scott C is an artist based in California. A friend sent me the link to his site and I am loving his work. He has a unique style that is whimsical and really enjoying to look at. He has dozens of his artworks posted on his blog so I highly suggest you check it out. There were so many I wanted to post here so it was hard to choose only a few.
Scott C.

I was blown away when I saw this series of beautiful black and white photographs titled Silent World. The artist is Michael Kenna. I wish I knew more about the artist. Do yourself a favor and check out the rest of the series.

I wish I could take photographs like this. Wow, just wow.