Seattle artist Nick Beery (aka Beery Method) is putting up his new show at the Greenwood Collective this week. The show title is “Hobo Eaters: Agents of Chaos” and features his popular characters hand painted on wood panels. Nick’s work is really incredible so check this one out at the opening on Friday.

Seattle super producer Jake One teamed up with rapper Freeway on the new release, The Stimulus Package. Freeway’s gruff voice commands you to listen and Jake’s production is top notch. The CD packaging is as strong as the music. The liner notes are huge dollar bills in a bank sleeve wrapped around the packaging like a big stack of money. After removing the sleeve and the bills you see the CD is inside a cardboard wallet, complete with a download credit card for the instrumental versions. This is by far the best CD packaging I’ve seen in 2010. Art Direction and Design is by Brent Rollins Design Explosion.

Detailed tribal masks meet watercolored cloth patterns in Stacey Rozich’s amazing new artwork. Her current show is hanging at Dolce Vita in Seattle.

This design looks so good - a notepad cover that resembles the classic 1979 Sony Walkman. I like how the bottom corners are cut to add dimension. Available from the Paper Tiger.

It was a beautiful day at Summit East on Saturday. I hadn’t been there since that massive avalanche came down that hill last January. You can see all the photos I took at the Holy Oly Revival on my Flickr page.

I’m headed up to Cypress to see the Mens Olympic halfpipe snowboard competition on Wednesday, but I’ll be back in time to catch the Holy Oly Revival up at Summit East. You can follow my Olympic tweets here.

Joanna and I designed 2 ampersands to be used in the SOTA collaborative typeface “Coming Together”, which was created exclusively for Font Aid IV to benefit the victims of the recent earthquake in Haiti. Read more here.

If you like to mix your art with your music, head over to the Lo-Fi on Friday for the Artifakt show. Artists such as Nick Beery will be featuring Pro and Anti Valentines art with a guys vs girls DJ battle putting the Lost Boys against the Hit Girl crew.

Free thinking and DIY are the first two words that come to mind when seeing the t-shirt designs of Seattle fashion/design team CMRTYZ. You can find CMRTYZ t-shirts at Blackbird in Ballard.

This year the biggest brands threw down 2-3 million for the chance to advertise on the Super Bowl. Between all the commercials featuring men’s underwear and 55 calorie light beer, these 3 were pretty entertaining.

Kia Sorento “Joyride” ad

In this commercial four life-size toy characters go on a road trip including Muno from Yo Gabba Gabba, a Sock Monkey, a Tin Robot and Blabla doll Mr. X. Just seeing a sock monkey flipping a jet ski and getting “MOM” knitted on his arm is worth checking it out. The song is “How You Like Me Now” by The Heavy.

Home Away “Hotel Hell Vacation” ad

Clueless travelers Clark and Ellen Griswald (aka Chevy Chase and Beverly D’Angelo) reprise their role from 1983’s “National Lampoon’s Vacation” movie for this ad for Home Away, a vacation rental home website. This teaser ad was creative and made me want to see the extended short film on their site.

Google “Parisian Love” ad

This was a brilliantly simple concept that clearly showed how integrated Google has become into our everyday lives.