I’m super pumped to view all the amazing posters in the show “American Letterpress: The Art of Hatch Show Print” on October 11th at the EMP. The exhibit will feature 126 historical and contemporary posters and 29 hand-carved wooden blocks—some of which are on view for the first time. Hatch has been in business in Nashville, TN for 130 years designing for everyone from the Grand Ole Opry to Johnny Cash to the Strokes.

I ran across some new illustrations by Don Clark in the October Issue of Wired. They were accompanying an article titled “The Fusion Myth”. It looks like locating bigfoot or a jackalope will be easier than finding true fusion power!

Take a look at this classic Penguin book design collection from Flickr user Joel Kral.

Lots of beautiful design work for Nike, Goods and Flying Coffin clothing coming out of Four Color Creative right now.

Here’s a taste of what’s new for 2009 in the bike industry. I’ll post more on Flickr later in the week. Iphoned…

I watched the Adobe presentation this morning on it’s new Creative Suite 4 software package. So far it looks like the amount of new features and increased connectivity is worth the upgrade. Here’s a few highlights:

1. Photoshop - streamlined 3D object editing and my favorite, content-aware scaling.
2. InDesign - add Flash type animation to your InDesign documents.
3. Illustrator - Looks like they’ve brought back Freehand’s multiple art boards in this AI version (Woot!).
4. Dreamweaver - I like the improved Code Navigator that highlights related files and CSS.

YouWorkForThem has created their third zine using only their own fonts and stock art collections. All the zine’s design was created within the concept of heaven and hell.

My Coworker Josh brought in his copy of the book BAND ID today. It’s a huge collection of music logos that covers more than 1,000 rock, hip hop, metal, pop, reggae, and country band emblems from the 1960s to today. My top 5 favorites are all in there: Rolling Stones, AC/DC, Love & Rockets, Black Flag and Run DMC. They also interview designers such as John Pasche who did the iconic Mouth/Tongue logo for the Rolling Stones back in 1970.

Portland fine artist + graphic designer + blogger = Nubby Twiglet. I really like her collage work with resin on wood.

Go right now to Paper Critters and design and share your own digital paper toy creation with the world. I burned through an hour without realizing it!