Algorithm Ink, a demo site for ContextFree.js a very cool and simple JavaScript drawing API by Aza Raskin. See Aza Raskin’s thoughts here.

Besides being pretty, why is ContextFree.js interesting? Because it shows the power of Open web technologies for making graphically-enabled, compelling interaction. The true power of the web revolves around anyone being able to dive in, see what someone else has done, and expand upon it. Canvas lowers the cost of entry to creating graphical mashups and other dynamic, graphical content. It also shows the progress the web has made: a year ago, this demo would not have been possible.

Design Reviver has put together a list of 30 posters. Very cool inspirational resource for web designers.

“One of my favorite alternatives for inspiration is poster design. By looking at great posters, you can learn a lot about composition, typography, and use of color.”

Very cool wallpapers from Russian web designer Vlad Gerasimov. Also check out his tutorials for an insight into some of his techniques.

“In 1998 I started to design user interfaces for web sites and software applications. However, when I had some free time, I created desktop wallpapers. Over the time, this hobby has grown into business, and today I enjoy full-time self-employment, creating wallpapers for your computers and mobile devices.”

High quality icons site.

beautiful and stylish stock icons, ready for use in personal or commercial projects.

A blog about ampersands.

“it is often the most attractive punctuation mark of them all”

Design & People poster for Friends of Tibet’s “Stop The Olympics Torture” protests when 2008 Beijing Olympics Flame of Shame reaches New Delhi, India on Thursday, April 17, 2008.

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The cover illustration of the first edition of Rudyard Kipling’s, The Jungle Book. This was illustrated by Rudyard Kipling’s father, John Lockwood Kipling, who had also illustrated many of his other works.

Jonathan Harris’ latest visualization, a storytelling experiment, based on 3,214 photographs he took during his 9 days living with Inupiat Eskimos in Barrow, Alaska, back in May 2007.

I documented the entire experience with a plodding sequence of 3,214 photographs, beginning with the taxi ride to Newark airport, and ending with the butchering of the second whale, seven days later. The photographs were taken at five-minute intervals, even while sleeping (using a chronometer), establishing a constant “photographic heartbeat”. In moments of high adrenaline, this photographic heartbeat would quicken (to a maximum rate of 37 pictures in five minutes while the first whale was being cut up), mimicking the changing pace of my own heartbeat.
- Jonathan Harris

A New York Times interactive feature of the Mad magazine fold-ins created by Al Jaffee since 1960.

If you were young at any time in the last 44 years, you know the fold-in: the feature on the inside of Mad’s back cover that poses a question whose answer is found by folding the page in thirds.

Mr. Jaffee does have a computer, but its main benefit, he said, has been to make the typographic tricks in the fold-in easier to create. He doesn’t draw with it, which leads to another surprise: the master of the fold-in never actually folds.

“I’m working on a hard, flat board,” he said. “I cannot fold it. That’s why my planning has to be so correct.”

“The computer would make it so much simpler,” he added. “But I think I’m going to remain a dinosaur.”

A 1970’s US Air Force sick leave leaflet illustrating why it’s important to save sick leaves, and not cheat the government by abusing sick leaves.