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.

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.

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.

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.

Vancouver’s Color Magazine has launched their new website  with some cool content filter options.

The Flipscript website let’s you create your own Ambigrams that can be rotated to read up-side down.

I started shooting photos of graphics on vintage wooden racquets I found piled up at the Goodwill. I noticed that shield shapes have been a popular design choice to add to the neck of the racquet. You can see the whole set here.

Junkyard Dog’s Flickr photostream features computer ads from the 80’s, futuristic cars and random sci-fi design.

I checked back to Modern Dog’s site today and noticed they’re selling their own clip art designs titled MoDog. Their Guilloche pattern collection is pretty hot. Their site says you can use these to “make your own certificate for World’s Best Uncle”.

Here’s a look at the new promo piece I received today from Haro Design, founded by BMX legend Bob Haro. The embossed envelope box with silver foil was such a nice touch.