Art exhibition opening tomorrow night at Pierogi 2000 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. “Working with laser cut museum board and materials typical to architectural model making, Joel Stoehr has created a sculpture inspired by New York City entitled ‘Tower of Babel.’”

If you find intricately built models strangely satisfying, this show looks worth the trip to the gallery. Via Manhattan Users Guide.

“We’ve scientifically determined the maximum amount of time that you should need to make a layout work in CSS: it’s 47 minutes. When your time is up, we’ll even give you the table code you need.” Nine months late on this link, but then again it would’ve been funnier a few years ago anyway.

Hand-crafted, three-dimensional rendering of the famous interface. Pretty charming.

Video preview of a first-person “painting game” set in an abstract, featureless environment. Players must “splatter” black paint in order to make their way to their destination. No idea if the game play will be any good, but aesthetically it’s gorgeous:

Yes, I’m a sucker for black and white.

Your chance to weigh in, courtesy of Mr. Essl.

It’s remarkable how this politician has inspired the world of design: an enterprising freelance graphic designer created these twenty-four illustrations of President-Elect Barack Obama and packaged them as a TrueType font, free for download.

Just one of many forthcoming graphical immortalizations of this man, I’m guessing. Unless he disappoints in a major way.

“[The Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center]’s work with IDEO comes as businesses increasingly tap the design world for fresh ideas on management. Some are struggling with new business models and unexpected rivals; others seek new approaches to old problems.” Heaven knows I hope this is in actuality a legitimate trend, but this article reads more like a press release from the remarkably effective IDEO publicity machine than accurate reporting. Not a single additional design firm is mentioned.

Though I’m not quite as enthusiastic about the design of the identity as a whole, I think this is probably one of the best new logos of the year.

Hinrichs is one of my design heroes. If you can find it, his regrettably out-of-print book “Typewise” is essentially a full year᾿s worth of an undergraduate typography course encapsulated into 160 pages.

Several series of airplanes and related imagery. Fans of big toys, you will enjoy these.