Marion Bataille: ABC3D

Don't miss the video preview of French designer Marion Bataille's alphabet pop-up book ABC3D, in which letterforms literally leap off the page. Starting with the lenticular cover, letters morph into one another and spring into states of depth, all within a crisp black, white and red palette. The book will be published this fall and is available to preorder from Amazon. [thanks Eva!]

Grant Hamilton Interview

Carmel Hagen has an interesting interview with Polaroid shutterbug Grant Hamilton (recently featured here), who will soon be robbed of his medium of choice. Hamilton talks about the future and about what it's like to be an artist approaching a serious change.

Keep Calm Spring Lineup

There are new spring products over at Keep Calm. What began with one simple reproduction has bloomed into a nice range of prints—worth another look! Keep Calm was originally featured here.

Justice Music Videos

More Fun for Friday: Drawn! spotlights the music videos of French electronic band Justice. For their song DVNO, the lyrics get animated 80s logo treatments. And for D.A.N.C.E., which was nominated for Video of the Year at last year's MTV Video Music Awards, animated illustrations spring across the fronts and backs of t-shirts.

6emeia Street Art

Fun for Friday: the 6emeia project is turning São Paulo sidewalks and storm drains into pieces of art. Check out the Flickr set or watch artists Leonardo Delafuente and Anderson Augusto in action on YouTube.
[via Doane Paper]

70s World of Logotypes on Flickr

Check out this Flickr set of over 100 scanned pages from a mid-70s edition of World of Logotypes. It's always interesting to see logos presented in black and white—a practice that seems to have gotten a bit lost in our current era of high-gloss color. [via Drawn!]

T26: Chopsticks

Over at digital type foundry T26 you can browse and buy fonts, dingbats and collections of eps artwork, like this cool set of chopstick bags by Carlos Segura.

DIY Inside Out Security Envelopes

DIY is on over at Design*Sponge, where they're turning security envelopes inside out to make use of the patterned lining. Good eye for design potential—what a great idea!

Wig-01

It's always interesting to stumble across a site that has been created in Flash not for the sleek bells and whistles ("See that—it moves!") but for the chance to have a visual love affair with some web-tricky type. The Wig-01 site, designed by Un.titled art director Andrew Townsend, is almost surprisingly simple and serves up Font Bureau's Hermes typeface. [via FontShop]

Kinematic Typography

Currently making the buzz rounds: Typographics, a short example of kinematic typography (aka type combined with motion). Kinematic typography on the web is nothing new (remember "What does Marsellus Wallace look like?"), but the Always Watching blog has a great post up that pulls a bunch of the coolest examples together.

Calling All Freelancers

Author Cathy Fishel is currently writing a book entitled Freelance Design in Practice and is seeking experienced freelance designers to interview. If selected, your design work will be shown in the book. The HOW blog has more info.

Remo Caminada

More fun for Friday: check out the portfolio site of Remo Caminada. This is proving to be a love-or-hate-it method of showcasing work—decide for yourself. (Side note: I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry over Caminada's use of the Skype "emo" emoticon!) [via Quipsologies, where the presentation was deemed annoying but "bearable because the work is interesting"...]

Thierry Bouet: Au Lit (In Bed)

Fun for Friday: Thierry Bouet has a charming series of photographs of people in bed. The highly designed sleeping environments range from extravagantly ornamental to extremely minimalist to comfortably curious. Bouet's site is in French (and Flash)—choose AU LIT from the top menu. [via kottke]

COLOURLovers: Miyazaki Palettes

The COLOURLovers blog has a great gush up about Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli, in which they praise the master animator for his wonderful use of color. Bonus: in the comments, COLOURLovers users have even generated their own Miyazaki-themed palettes!

Beasts

Fantagraphics is putting out a second illustrated BEASTS! book. Jennifer Tong's garlic nymphs (upper left, above) won the open call for entries, but some of the other submissions are currently being showcased on the BEASTS! blog. There is also a fun and imaginative Beasts Flickr pool. [via Drawn!]

Abelardo Morell's Water Alphabet

There is something cool and fascinating about Abelardo Morell's simple water alphabet. Check out the rest of his portfolio for a thorough dose of atmospheric black and white photography—I especially like the shots from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, one of my favorite Boston oddities. [via Quipsologies]

PingMag's Desk Project

PingMag knows how much fun it can be to peek at other people's desks—they recently emailed colleagues and asked "Can I see your desk?" The responses came flooding in, and the captured creative workspaces range from total chaos to rigid grid alignment. (I admit that while I aspire to sleek and organized minimalism, my desk usually resembles the above photo). [via swissmiss]

E. Soule: The Little Zoo

Fun for Friday: Elizabeth Soule has a fantastic series of animal figurine portraits called The Little Zoo (call me a sucker, but photographing toys was one of my favorite art school projects). You can buy Soule prints on Etsy or visit her site for more info—spend some time looking at her other work, which is just as charming. [via How About Orange]

Design Observer Job Board

On the employment resources front, Design Observer has recently partnered with Coroflot to offer a Job Board.

Multistorey

I'm researching London studio Multistorey for an article and am enjoying the variety of their portfolio. Perhaps the most delightful thing about familiarizing myself with their work is discovering that I've seen and interacted with their projects before—during trips to London over the last several years (and without ever connecting the design dots), I went to the Spy Exhibit they designed for the London Science Museum, admired their packaging design at Liberty, noticed their signage around the city, and flipped through one of their books. They do a bit of everything, with an emphasis on production and crafts, and have created some refreshingly untraditional pieces that range from the abstract to the elegantly minimal—and note their focus on handdrawn typography and visually simulated texture.

Whitney Biennial

The Whitney Biennial is on now through June 1st. The artists involved have worked with a broad range of materials and communicative devices, and the schedule is packed with everything from installations and workshops to broadcasts and performances to lectures and community activities—worth a look!

Pingg

An alternative to Evite's 90s-style squiggle vs. chick-lit illustrations, Pingg also offers free online invites, but with templates that have a more designed, stock photo-ish feel. Bonus: there are features like Facebook Event integration. Looks promising! [via How About Orange]

Evolution of Tech Logos

Neatorama takes a look at the evolution of popular tech company logos. Shown above: Apple (that's Newton under an apple tree), Adobe, IBM (a far cry from Paul Rand's version), Nokia and Motorola. The article brims with interesting information—did you know that Canon was originally Kwanon Camera, named for the Buddhist Bodhisattva of Mercy? [thanks Leslie]

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwx

Fun for Friday: Drawn! spotlights abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwx, an awesome video in which an Amsterdam father and son create side-by-side calligraphy. What a way to learn and appreciate your letterforms—no calligraphy or typography class I took was ever such fun!

Sony Micro Animal Ads

(Bizarre) Fun for Friday: Check out these oddball Sony Micro ads, in which huge animals are wrapped up for transport/storage (on a Sony Micro flash drive, of course). Created by Promoseven in Dubai.

Kitsune Noir's Wallpaper Project

Kitsune Noir has launched the Wallpaper Project, in which a series of artists have been recruited to create a range of desktop wallpapers that are made available for free download every Wednesday. Trendspotter Josh Spear makes an interesting point about how, in these days of working on-the-go, desktop wallpaper has become one of the few ways to personalize your workspace.

Type Camp 2008

Type Camp returns! Last year's Type Camp (featured here) in British Columbia was a hit, and this year the schedule has expanded to include four separate camps in locations including London and India. The original instructor team of typographers Marian Bantjes, Shelley Gruendler and Ross Mills has also expanded to a fleet of ten. Bigger and better even as it specializes in focus, Type Camp 2008 is shaping up to be a series of unforgettable experiences—sign up while there's room! [via Veer]

COLOURLovers: Color Travels

The COLOURlovers blog is dreaming of traveling the world using a color-based itinerary. From the sandy ochres of Egypt to the rainbow jumble of Red Square to the winter whites of Scandinavia, they've trolled Flickr for photos of some colorful locations around the globe. A cool idea—someone should start a color-themed travel tour business.

Patterns and More Patterns

Veerle recently featured some beautiful vintage patterns that largely range within a limited color palette of golds, oranges and neutrals. Her post also includes a big list of links to pattern sites like Squidfingers (previously mentioned here). [via Zeldman]

Coroflot 2007 Design Salary Survey

Coroflot has published the results of their 2007 Design Salary Survey. Over 4,000 designers from various corners of the industry responded to the survey. Good news—overall, design salaries are up!

Q&A with NYTimes Graphics Director

"Information graphics are not just art," says NYTimes graphics director Steve Duenes, who recently responded to readers in this interesting Q&A. What goes on in the graphics department? And what sort of background is required to get a job in these trenches? (The answer may surprise you.) [via 37signals]

Tom O'Toole: I, Brontosaurus

I'm enjoying the graphic work of Tom O'Toole over at I, Brontosaurus. A bit of urban whimsy, a lot of color, some hand drawn stuff, a little lusciously questionable type, some FX—a big visual jumble of warmth on a cold day. Don't miss his over the top bio. [via Coudal Partners]

Saul Bass Star Wars

Had Saul Bass done the titles for Star Wars, they might have looked something like this. A fantastic collision of two of my favorite nerdy interests! [via kottke]

Pottok: Geoff McFetridge Wallpaper

Geoff McFetridge has designed Pottok: a new wallpaper collection featuring cool graphic treatments of trees, apples, flowers, whales (shown above), and more. Hint: click on designs once you hit the site. [via Speak Up]

BibliOdyssey: The Book

I'm a bit late to the party on this one, but PK and FUEL design have published a BibliOdyssey book, chock-full of the sort of eclectic illustrations and imagery that make the BibliOdyssey blog so fantastic.

40 Free Fonts

Smashing magazine has a great list of 40 favorite free fonts—free fonts that are actually high-quality! Definitely worth a look. [via the always delightful How About Orange]

Chip Kidd: The Learners

Chip Kidd's new book The Learners has hit the shelves! In this much-anticipated sequel to The Cheese Monkeys, college is over and our hero has moved on to his first job at an ad agency. On Kidd's site, there are all sorts of extras like videos, reviews an an excerpt from the novel.

"Dear Colleagues"

The Ten Thousand Things blog has a fun rant up, admonishing some fellow designers for being cocky divas who need to take it down a peg. Though we're certainly all not arrogant asses (at least not 100% of the time), I suspect that everyone knows at least one person this rant could apply to—especially if you've braved the New York art school trenches... [via UnBeige]