Oh, that’s nice… yummy. Via Surfstation.

Some stunning photography of London… at night… from above (Jason Hawkes has a whole bunch of stunning aerial photography from around the world… s’true). We lived in London for a good fifteen years and had a great time, brilliant place and now don’t live too far away as I don’t think it’ll be out of our system completely.

Who’d have thunk it? Via The Morning News.

Found Frank Chimero, a graphic designer/illustrator through his ongoing ‘States’ project a while back (he likens California to a stubbed out cigarette and is making his way around the rest of his country). But lately his ‘other’ project has been relaunched: Thinking for a living. Check it out and lose some time, quality time though, not wasted.

Having just done Typecast myself and came out as ‘Helvetica’… I came across this again, ‘the only book on Swiss graphic design for the chemical industry’ – it took some finding but Grain Edit had it so I’m linking to them. The word is beautiful.

Found on Flickr: a set of 1950s and 60s travel posters… beautiful. Via BoingBoing.

We love Aesthetic Apparatus and this is how much fun they have when working! Via Airbag Industries.

Some fabulous illustrations from 1945 in a book called ‘Flight thru instruments’ from the General Motors ‘graphic engineering’ staff under Harley Earl (who went on to inspire the Cadillac tailfin ‘craze’). Nice discovery from Telstar Logistics… and accompanying Flickr book. Via Ministry of Type.

Came across the answer to a question that’s always been at the back of my mind and I just never bothered to investigate further. Woody Allen’s movies invariably have the same typographic style in the title sequence, white type on black background… whether he’s trying to establish a house style no-one really knows but turns out it’s Windsor Elongated (available here). Other resource to check out is Contact Sheet.

Really, some people have all the fun! Still trying to figure out if there’s any truth at all in this.