Daily design for the avant garde soul
For the budding typographer on your holiday shopping list, might I recommend this sleek calendar designed by Kit Hinrichs. Each month highlights a classic type with a brief description. It’s more of an art piece really then a calendar that you would want to write all over, but that’s what ical is for huh?

A new moma site is featuring the collected works of Howard Gilman’s collection of some seriously utopian (science fiction) architectural drawings. The site is a wonderful flash site with an interesting navigation. Definitely worth checking out is Cedric Price’s vision for a ‘Potteries Thinkbelt’. The Thinkbelt is a system of old trains that operate as transportation in addition to classrooms, that move around in a network connected to a typical university system. Now that would just be straight up dope. Some of the drawings remind me of the elaborate schemas and plans we all made as kids. You remember – the ones we made when we didn’t know anything about zoning laws, building codes, or developer control – the one’s that featured 14 level dream homes connected by a circuit of underground tunnels and Logan’s Run style trams.

Speaking of inventive designs, Brian has alerted me to an amazing new design for a device that is totally 100% piracy proof. It’s black, dusty and has tiny little grooves in it.