Android Demonstration

Progress from Google on their mobile phone platform.

Font Bots

“Series of typographic illustrations based on my favourite sans-serifs.”

NYT: Weak Economy Boosts Sales of Picture-tube TVs

Photojojo: Keyboard Skins for Photoshop, Aperture, Final Cut Pro, More

Subway Crush

Jonathan Hoefler on the Origins of the Ampersand

“Though it feels like a modern appendix to our ancient alphabet, the ampersand is considerably older than many of the letters that we use today. By the time the letter W entered the Latin alphabet in the seventh century, ampersands had enjoyed six hundred years of continuous use…” There, that’s already ten times more than you knew about the character before.

Art Space Tokyo: An Intimate Guide to the Tokyo Art World

Beautiful — really, it’s gorgeous — small press book that lovingly tours twelve of Tokyo’s galleries. A steal at US$30.

Mark Porter: Broadsheet Bad

UnBeige: Help Debbie Millman Interview Michael Bierut

Suggest queries for their joint appearance at next week’s How Conference.

Sleevelessness: Review of the Book “Band ID&#*221;

Extending Album Art

Humorous takes on famous album covers.

NYT: Rauschenberg, Titan of American Art, Is Dead at 82

A very sad day.

NYT: Ikea Opening in Red Hook, Brooklyn on 18 Jun

Not germane to everybody, I realize, but a big deal for New Yorkers.

Opposites Attract ’08 at the New York Art Directors Club

New speaker series from UnderConsideration LLC.

Cooper-Hewitt 2008 National Design Awards Winners Announced

Congratulations to Michael Bierut and Scott Stowell, among others.

IHT.com: Neat Trick for Eliminating Typographic Widows

NYT: Primary Pen & Ink, Raleigh, N.C.

Reporter Campbell Robertson’s comics from the North Carolina primary.

Start Here

“Linkable notebooks and accessories.” Exquisite paper products from my friend Tina Chang.