Bits ‘n Pieces is a traveling exhibition of work by international designers, architects, computer scientists, and material and technology researchers. It will showcase projects still in their development stage, as well as furniture, architecture, jewelry, graphic design and products that anticipate the next phase of the digital revolution, focusing on how society is imbued with, shaped by and shapes technology.

Menotspeak books are have clean illustrations and critical phrases about food, money exchange, transportation and bathrooms, printed in English and the local language, so all you need to do is open to the page and point.

Michael Shirley points us to a set of business cards that are coated with a special heat sensitive substance. As the cards are handled, a dark layerdisappears to reveal designs underneath.

Giuliano Bekor is a notable fashion photographer whose portfolio reads like a who’s who of boldface glossies.

Brooklyn based designer Reiner Tiangco has created a different kind of poster that requires an unusual interaction in order for its message to be revealed.

We reported on Steve Powers’ ambitious Love Letter project last month, and it looks like they’ve been busy down in Philadelphia.  Below is a gallery of the beautiful murals that have gone up so far.
Some details on the endeavor:
Love Letter is literally a love letter painted on the walls facing the Market elevated train. 40 local and international artists will paint the walls in august and the letter will be on view for one and all starting as early as Labor Day
The project will encompass 50 painted walls between 63rd and 45th street on Market Street, a documentary film with [...]

The legendary California type foundry Emigre Graphics, founded by Rudy VanderLans and Zuzana Licko, is releasing a “best of” book. This will be the first from the influential design magazine Emigre since it stopped publishing in 2005.
512 page Emigre No. 70: The Look Back Issues – Celebrating 25 Years in Graphic Design will cover the best from a quarter century of the magazine’s content.
They explain the story:
During the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s, graphic design was experiencing one of its most exciting and transformative periods. The Apple Macintosh computer had been introduced, design schools were exploring French linguistic theory, [...]

Online indie rock superstore Insound has announced a new design project- an extension of last year’s Insound 20- which saw one artist design t-shirts and hoodies for 20 contemporary bands.
This year’s version is called the “Insound 10 Classic“- which pairs designer Mike Perry with 10 seminal punk, new-wave and indie rock artists (shown above) from 1977 to 1997.  The new designs are featured on limited-edition t-shirts, posters and bags. The purpose of this project was to inject a fresh visual life into influential bands of the past- who have not had any new  merchandise created for them in years- creating [...]

Turkish designer Ersinhan Ersin recently presented to the typography community an alphabet made from cassette tapes. He cleverly calls the project Tapeography.
Perhaps it’s innate, the desire of artists to create alphabets from objects. They have been made of stones, human bodies, and even tire tracks. Or could it be the popularity of alphabet soup?

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With Season 3 of Mad Men premiering last night, a renewed interest in all things retro – the fashion, the lingo, the drinks – can be expected to tighten its grip on popular culture.  The Mad Men wave might also leave in its wake an increased curiosity for the advertising that the series celebrates.  
WebUrbanist features a comprehensive collection of the product of the Golden Age of Advertising – beginning in the 50’s, a bit before the 60’s hey day that Mad Men takes place in – and highlights some of the key historical incidents that affected consumers’ psyche and [...]

Graduating as a graphic designer from the London College of Art, Lottie Crumbleholme has designed a campaign encouraging sustainable behavior. Aimed at people who in one way or another are already doing their bit, the goal is to turn it into political action on a larger scale. By sending sleek and simple pre-written letters to office holders your are combining your protest with a bit of sophisticated design and DIY.
The Secretary of State for Energy & Climate Change may get a letter, a worn out plastic bag or a framed photo of yourself demonstrating. Old light bulbs, recepits from eco-purchases, [...]

Yard sales, lawn services, dubious residential daycare establishments—advertisements for myriad local low-end services can be found affixed to trees, telephone poles, and walls in our neighborhoods. What most of them have in common is their indifference toward graphic design—and can they be blamed? one puts up a flier because one’s cat is missing, not as part of a RISD portfolio. If they are typed at all, they are done so without any regard for typography; Comic Sans and clip art abound, and as a result many are ignored entirely.

In steps Cardon Webb, responsible for the Cardon Copy project. Webb identifies [...]

Austrailian expat David Racchi, part of the Spanish advertising group F33 has won the Gold Lion at the 56th Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival.  Winning the Corporate / Brand Identity category for their Piglet publication, Racchi co-founded the Murcia-based agency with Rodrigo Fonseca, Joaquin Martines de Salas and Jose Sola after leaving Melbourne seven years ago.  Created for the Agencia Regional de Recaudación (Regional Tax Collection Agency), the publication was designed to summarise all the Treasury office’s account information in the most engaging and captivating way possible.  Addressing the economic recession’s affect on the Spanish economy, F33 visualised saving by [...]

In an effort to demystify the laundry list of rules and regulations associated with obtaining and keeping a street vendor’s license in New York City, designer Candy Chang has partnered with The Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) and Sean Basinski of the Street Vendor Project to create a simple, informative guide with illustrations reminiscent of an airline safety brochure. The pamphlet was developed as part of CUP’s ongoing Making Public Policy series, a program aimed at making public policy meaningful and accessible through the use of graphic design.
Along with the nuts and bolts presentation of navigating the law – everything from renewing [...]

Boing Boing had an image remix challenge this week that tackled the over-the-top “anti-terrorism” posters created by the London police. The paranoia inducing ad campaign got a very funny remixing by the blog’s readers.
The Original:

The Remixes:

Boing Boing has a bunch more here.