I’ve been staring at the above image for a while that is in the post THE SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE. I’ve never been a fan of Pokemon. I think why I keep coming back to the bold colours and shapes is that it follows the same best practices that a memorable brand rely on. At a quick glance a person knows exactly what the “thing” is. In this case a Japanese character.

Getting back into a normal Link Drop Today pattern of posts I thought I’d start with some cool type design. We’ve all seen the type as object thing being done in fascinating ways but here’s a nice addition in that it doesn’t feel flat. All the x-ray fuzziness make it something stand apart. Designed by Katerina Orlikova and found via Young and Brilliant.

Keeping politics out of it, the Air Iran Logo as a mark is pretty nice. Andrew Pollak has found a couple more images of it implemented that are worth looking at.

I came across this yesterday that the Guardian has started a new section on Service Design. It is a great step forward considering most design topics in newspapers only talk about design as an object to buy.

While my friend Johanna last night was talking about nature inspired designs I immediately thought of this above image of a floating hotel designed by Jean-Marie Massaud and the Office National d’Etudes et de Recherche Aérospatiale. Image found via Young and Brilliant.

Found this great chart of Island Def Jam Records Discography at ripetungi. Read more about how the chart came to be at Meet the Boss.

Dieselation compares the Jewish Museum to Guggenheim Museum in How to Succeed and Fail as a Museum.

I had to smile when I saw this AIGA logo on LOKi design’s site. Designed by Post Typography for a lecture titled “Punk Rock vs. Swiss Modernism”.

There’s a touching story about the CD of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games who died suddenly a couple months before the Olympics started. In the clip from the CBC it becomes apparent quite quickly how much respect those that worked with Leo had for him.

With spring just about here the last thing I want to do is go back in time and think about winter. But with that said photographer Laura Barisonzi has a great series titled Winter Surfing. I have a friend that does this crazy thing but I suppose with the proper gear anything can be fun.