Last month, design writer Sarah F. Cox came along with me for a morning walk in Prospect Park with my dog, Mister President, to profile him in a series of “designers and their dogs” stories over at Core77. Read the full story here.

A newsprint compilation of some of the best of the excellent magazine blog’s many posts published over the past four years. MagCulture author Jeremy Leslie explains, “The great thing about blogging is the instantaneous nature of content publication, but the flip side is that the content disappears quickly too, becoming buried below the latest posts. This will help you dig out some of those posts.”

While I really enjoy MagCulture, and I think Jeremy is a very talented, very smart and very nice guy, I must confess that I have no idea what I’d do with this if I were to buy it. It seems like it’s almost a book, but its folded broadsheet-style format seems difficult to store. Anyway, it looks great.

Every day this year, illustrator Anna Raff is posting a completely charming illustration of a bird to this blog. It’s 22 May already, so there are 144 drawings for you to peruse right now.

Collected in one place: promotional posters for twenty-six of the films shown at this year’s 63rd annual film festival in the South of France. None of them are particularly remarkable, with Mathieu Almaric’s “Tournée” being perhaps the most intriguing by virtue of its retro styling. Still, as a group they’re interesting at least as a survey of the graphical language that serious cinema uses in 2010, for better or worse.

A moving short documentary about the rapidly fading art of hand-painted, large-scale wall advertisements in New York City, produced by Mother NY. View the full movie here. (Via True/Slant.)