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.)

A sober-minded case against the viewing technology that’s captured the imagination of studio executives everywhere.

I’m not opposed to 3D as an option. I’m opposed to it as a way of life for Hollywood, where it seems to be skewing major studio output away from the kinds of films we think of as Oscar-worthy.

For myself, I’m both leery of 3D and leery of dismissing it too quickly. I think that James Cameron is essentially correct when he asserts that serious and groundbreaking movies will be made with the possibilities that 3D technology offers. But I’m afraid that those will be few and far between — in the short run, anyway. Even Cameron’s “Avatar” seemed as if it would’ve been more enjoyable without the added dimensional illusion, and ultimately I wanted to see it in 2D before I really decided whether I liked it or not. 3D strikes me as a novel sensation not unlike a roller-coaster, except it goes on for two hours. I like roller-coasters, but I don’t want to ride even the very best of them for more than five minutes.

Now fully integrated into the Bloomberg empire, the recently acquired Business Week magazine just re-launched last week sporting a new, compound moniker, and under the the art direction of Richard Turley, a former colleague of Porter’s at The Guardian. The reconstituted magazine’s look is attractive enough, owing at least a few beats to work Turley did with his former employers, and makes good use of a beautiful variant on Helvetica designed by Christian Schwartz. Porter includes some samples from the new magazine along with his brief comments here.

Highly informative, useful and generously detailed slide deck from Drew Houston, the co-founder and CEO of everybody’s favorite cloud storage startup. Definitely worth reading.

Linda Grant, the author of the new book “The Thoughtful Dresser: The Art of Adornment, the Pleasures of Shopping, and Why Clothes Matter,” makes a compelling argument for what fashion says about our characters and our society.

“Clothes are not everything, but you cannot have depths without surfaces. They communicate with what is within; between the two there is always a great dialogue.”

That’s a terrific quote, one to remember. Read the full blog post here.