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I like the truck treatment for the Red Cross brand update. I wonder how realistic it is to expect an actual truck to look this nice.

Knight Exemplar from M:TG, by Jason Chan. Found via Sarah Darkmagic’s excellent post “More of This Please”, via @zroundbls.

Frank Lloyd Wright also wins at letterheads.

Einstein wins at letterheads.

Moshi Moshi Harajuku, by Kyary Pamyu Pamyu. A masterpiece of iconic album art, if you ask me.

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Mimi Houllier von Schwarzlang from Atelier Totori, by Kishida Mel. Totally not the sort of character I usually like, and yet I totally like her.

“Serpentine” photography by Mark Laita

George Peabody Library, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. It looks almost exactly like the Duke’s Archives level in Dark Souls.

Codrington Library, All Soul’s College, Oxford University, Oxford, UK. I wanted to pin every single image in this gallery, “The 25 Most Beautiful College Libraries in the World”.

If I didn’t already own Livory, I would be very tempted by Cassia.

I love the photography and typography of Kiyoaki Sasahara, who I gather is the designer of several Spangle call Lilli line albums.

Unknown Spanish artist; 17th century. This is on display at the Art Institute of Chicago, and I always loved the totally incongruous-looking text emerging from the dude’s mouth.

Instapaper icon, by Dan Cederholm. Text from Merlin Mann.

Valkyria Chronicles 3. I looooooove the pattern dithering on PSX games and, apparently, PSP games.

Ekranoplan; super weird and vying for the title of my favorite airplane design ever. Lots more pictures at the source site.

Lasses with glasses get passes !

Hide Belt from Diablo 3. This series has always had brilliant pixel art, giving even the lowliest items substance and gravitas.

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William Van Hecke Aaaand Pinterest has JPEG-compressed the lovely PNG all to heck. :(

Soul Calibur Hilde :) Woman + Full Plate ♥

Dalian from Dantalian no Shoka, by G-Yuusuke. No accessory is more attractive than a tome. Plus: in the anime, she is voiced by the brilliant Sawashiro Miyuki.

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I really, really like this visual approach to guitar learning at skyturtle.com.

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Nos Compagnons... Les Chats

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This single work-in-progress shot from Yoshizawa Mitsumasa is as educational as anything I have seen on the topic of 3D character modeling.

I love CloudApp’s perfect little keyboard.

‘Another little sneak peak of my “Star Wars 1999” side project, which is a remake of the prequels only using SW information prior to Lucas’s prequels.’ — Aaron Diaz. Dang it, I am not supposed to like Star Wars, but that sounds like a marvelous idea.

KOS-MOS v4 from Xenosaga Episode III, by CHOCO.

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Eleanor Varrot from Valkyria Chronicles, by Honjou Raita.

Cordelia von Feverbach from Atelier Rorona, by Kishida Mel. How did I not have any Kishida-sensei pinned here yet!?

“ The man claimed that the planet was called Aocicinori and that it was the 63rd in a system of 96 planets. He showed off maps of the world, as well as some colorful illustrations of the creatures that lived there. The Rice University article reveals that these materials were created by Scotland L. Moore, an outpatient from the Houston State Psychiatric Institute.” news.discovery.co...

I kinda really like the ASID logo.

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Kingdom Death 3D-printed miniatures; special 54mm scale on this one.

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A Rush quilt... A RUSH QUILT!?!?

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This is somewhere in Ôsaka. Unfortunately that’s all I can find out about it!

A PADD from Star Trek: TNG. I love Okudagrams; so iconic of the way we used to imagine our future. So artistic while still functional-looking. A lovely example of design to solve problems for creative projects.

Voyages Extraordinaires; Jules Verne

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Moment in the Sun by John Sayles. I know next to nothing about it yet, but the cover is shockingly great. If I ever wrote a book, a cover like this would be required.

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I, for one, approve of tech news web site logos that are indistinguishable from ’70s prog-rock band logos.

VOICE, by Toki Asako.

The Dymaxion projection is pretty cool, too, because it is specially adjusted to work well for Earth. I like the acceptance that sometimes it is preferable to specialize your design, especially in the case of, like, *the only planet people live on*.

Urushibara Ruka from Steins;Gate, by huke. I love that an artist with such a unique style can be this popular.

The original Song of Ice and Fire covers for the UK, by Jim Burns, were *marvelous*. The switch to boringness is even more disappointing than on the US versions.

Oh, Stephen Youll, the original cover artist for the Ice and Fire books, actually did a painting for the fourth book! But they switched to the super-boring design instead, ruining the consistency of my collection. Here is the original, unused, cool version!

Mikio Inose does the hyperreal icon design thing better than anyone I know of.

Amber Lamps homebrewed beer label by @Julian Lancaster. I love this to deaths.

Stencil design with dynamic symmetry by Chris Heath.

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“Data Liberation” is a feature from the very beginning. Good on you, Google+.

Amazon does a good job of selling the advantages of e-ink. I love the alienness of the zoomed-up LCD and the consternation on the face of the iPad dude.

Oh, the new interface for Wordnik is quite nice. I hope it works better on iOS now, too.

The Record button in the iPhone Voice Memos app is downright gorgeous.

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I love Mojang’s ability to be contemporary-cool and retro-cool simultaneously. (Presumably the work of Markus Toivonen.)

Enlightenment Era Philosophómon: Gotta debate the fundamental beliefs of ’em all! So classic.