A fantastic example of information design in the wild.

“A one-day conference featuring some of today’s leading creatives in design, photography, and illustration.” Included on the bill is the awesome Michael C. Place, formerly of The Designers Republic, who is an awesome designer even though his Web site is a little underwhelming.

I can’t wait for this. Their 2005 release, “Howl,” is still the most played album in my iTunes library.

Novel 404 error pages and messages. Tongue in cheek contingency design.

Nicely done re-rendering of the Scooby Doo gang.

Web conference from the bright kids at Clearleft. Cleverest ‘coming soon’ page I’ve seen in a long time.

Look sharp.

Terrific on-the-street drawings of New Yorkers.

Chris Messina proposes standard markup for displaying photos or illustrations (he calls them ‘figures’).