In addition to the turkey (or tofurkey), mashed potatoes, stuffing, gravy, rolls, green beans, sweet potato casseroles, cranberries, and pumpkin pie here are several coma-inducing links for you to feast on.

Want to learn Cinema 4D, like I do, here are 99 tutorials.

Information is beautiful.

Nice abstract animation: PRESS +.

The work of Dutch designer Paul Schuitema.

Great cut paper art by Ana Bidart.

Stop-motion video of making a 35 hand-sewn letterpressed books.

The Indie Rock Coloring Book.

A great collection of ham radio cards.

Fun whimsical and well done design work by Jess Atikinson.

Lucha Libre posters.

The Society of Design.

Interesting typographic sculptural work by artist Jack Pierson.

Ilovehotdogs is a blog that curates film stills from classic cult films.

Olympic Spirit is a great animation for the olympics.

WIP (work in progress) is a blog that showcases the development of comics from sketch to final.

Images of the exhibition Lubalin Now.

Vintage travel posters.

Cut out maps.

The typography of Mihail Mihaylov.

Lighting books.

Beautiful sponsor reel.

One of my favorite comic artists, Tom Gauld, has a new website. Oh and from his flickr page is this great cartoon about designer/artist Eric Gill. And in case you don’t know why this is funny, read about Eric Gill on wikipedia.

Old-timey Dutch book covers.

Nice stop-motion piece by Hunter Gatherer for Fuel.

For you to go stompin’ in… Obama Airforce One’s.

Amazing student film from Gobelins.

Marvel zombies: a series of reanimated 80s cartoons.

Fax Machine of Death.

Michael Bierut: 5 Secrets from 86 Notebooks.

40 Typographic Videos.

As One.

ADC Young Guns 7 winners.

In case you missed it a few weeks ago they opened up what seemed to be the gates of hell in front of Ford Hall last week. It was quite the site to see, as are some of these links:

2012 Olympics pictograms are revealed.

A good interview with film maker/animator Jeff Scher.

Some great illustrations by Fernando Volken Togni.

Great slide show of the work of Walter Dexel.

Greyscale Gorilla critiques demo reels.

Logos that make good use of negative space.

Essay #1 by Minimal.

Psyop brings you How to Animate.

Furniture to keep you active.

Cardboard characters in the real world; an animation.

Sheaff (various ephemera).

An interesting concert perhaps; the Decemberists have hired several animators to create video for their concert.

Sita Sings the Blues (a wonderful animated feature).

Thriller without Michael and zombies.

Fontstuctor Peter De Roy.

Amazing stencil graffiti.

Jesus 2000.

This may be a repeat but worth visiting again: the art and motion of Beatles Rock Band.

Photosketch.

Trademarkia.

Nice whimsical title sequence for Flash on the Beach.

School’s back (well, actually it has been back for sometime now)! That said, we’ve all been busy around here making work, getting classes underway, and having some fun. As evidence of how busy things have been around here, featured above is Rachel Auriemma’s amazing work for a one week assignment in the Advanced Graphic design class. I have been busy collecting links for you to feast your eyes upon so without further delay here they are:

A three-year exhibition of El Lissitzky’s work starts this year.

Amazing flickr set of astronomy photographs.

Crazy plush toys.

Hand painted movie posters from Ghana.

Beautiful illustrative typographic compositions on dark backgrounds.

In case you ever decide to print the internet you should know this…

Six fonts that anger folks.

The work of Cosmic.

Graphic Designer vs. Client.

Kachi Kachi Yama.

Sing Sang Sung.

Some great classic book covers.

HTML Color Codes: an online exhibition.

The bizarre graphic work and illustration of elzo Le Durt Du quartier.

The Daily Drop Cap.

Friends of Type.

The Cut and Paste season of events gets underway on Oct. 16th in NYC.

Heat sensitive business cards.

Some very interesting game mods.

My friend Jimmy Luu exhibits his Office of Printed Ephemera.

Wired makes over Craiglist.

A set of icons created to work with Helvetica.

Enjoy the semester, more posts on their way soon!

So today, June 15th, marks National Man Day, or at least that is the hope of two brothers who managed to get National Man Day in Chase’s Calendar of Events. My favorite activity that they suggest one does on National Man Day is, “punch a gorilla in the face.” I thank facebook for bringing this day to my attention, and I also thank the internet for bringing me these gems this past week or so:

The open source embroidery project. More here.

Bret and Jemaine (Flight of the Concords) get illustrated on 35 different posters.

More augmented reality fun, this time with video games and you as a city destroying duck.

New type foundry Hype for Type.

Nice animation blog, 4mations.

Bumperstickers for your kicks.

Zombies + Calder = zombie mobile. And several other fun mobiles from Etsy seller SaltyandSweet.

18 inspiring title sequences.

The current issue of WallPaper has some sexy type.

Some nice typographic work by Jonathan Calugi.

Nice letterpress work by Studio On Fire.

Really nice designerly puzzle game, Little Wheel.

The post-it/pixel video Deadline. Be sure to check out the making of.

Giant Robot continues to bring some interesting work to its artxgame series.

Fun alphabet keychains. I want one, or at least RM.

The High Line project in New York opened up to rave reviews. More here. And for some interesting theory and about the design ideas go here. Diller Scofidio + Renfro continue to be some of the top architectural thinkers out there.

Takashi Murakami’s SuperFlat First Love.

Nice woodcut illustrations by Roman Klonek. Also check out his site.

Nice Paul Rand tribute site.

Today is Friday! And we are a few steps closer to the end of the EMU Spring term (a little over 2 weeks left). And as we prepare for a fun-filled weekend feast your eyes on some of these gems found recently on the webs:

Above, a video from E3 this past week showcasing Microsoft’s new development in facial recognition and full body sensing for gaming. More about it here.

A great student film by SVA student Jake Armstrong.

Crayola packaging old and new.

Great post about the making of the Rakes 3rd album cover.

Infographics from GOOD magazine.

Or try some nonsense infographics.

Nice work by Way Shape Form.

Sweet interactive music video.

The return of photolettering.

Nice screenprints by Tyler Stout.

Beautiful opener for CaT (Creativity and Technology Conference).

Digital animation pioneer John Whitney’s Matrix III (there is no Neo and Agent Smith in this one).

Great TED talk on tribes in modern day society.

Photographer Richard Mosse on Saddam’s Palaces.

A survey of the uniforms found from the short lived Women’s Professional Basketball league.

Beautiful music video by Dirk Rauscher.

CardonCopy. The work of one man redesigning bad fliers posted around town.

A great online resource of Wood Type ornaments, catalogs, etc.

Library of Congress releases some beautiful and stunning photos of the Great Depression.

Chi-town’s Delicious Design League. And there is a video of them too.

Cute pixel based films.

Logo trends for 2009.

Need some idea of what to sketch or doodle, try using the Brainstormer.

Lastly, Litebrite + blackletter = pretty.

Business cards for Chicago gangs.

Philips Carousel, and the making of it.

The architecture of video game evil lairs.

Wood Type!

Fun ad of a Rube Goldberg machine wrecking havoc in a print room.

Nice work by Paul Sych.

10 CalArts animation student films.

New Creative Review website (which features archives of previous month’s articles).

Awesome short, “What’s in the Box.”

A home built letterpress!

Learn about how various artists use Adobe products to make their work.

Designflux, an online motion graphic webzine.

Penguin Sci-fi covers.

The blog Its Nice That, is now in print.

A flickr pool of retro logos.

Scott Dadich on designing Wired Magazine.

MTV + Swatch = competition.

Nice video that clients pulled half-way through the job.

Fruit nightmare!

The Travels of Bad.

For Print Only (a new blog).

Container List (a new blog of archived graphic design).

Quimby the Mouse, animated.

The amazing calligraphy of Gabriel Martinez Meave.

Well the Winter semester has come to end. So as some of you set sail for summer feast your eyes on these links:

An amazing video made with a text editor (above).

A brilliant video by David Wilson.

Interesting concept for MTV’s Cherry Girl.

Google Map Typography.

Interesting work by the Neo-Con Collective.

Fun with shredded paper strips.

Photographer Dustin Diaz gives you insight into his photography.

Awesome sci-fi book covers.

The amazing modified books of Brian Dettmer.

The WTC logo archive.

Amazing photo composites by Peter Funch.

Great design work by Ken Briggs.

A great post about Airside’s process on the creation of a logo.

Nice posters by Zdenek Ziegler.

Eye lists the top 10 type blogs.

Great jewelry by Ted Norten.

Nice work by Micah Lidberg.

Speak Up shuts down, we’ll miss you.

Nice making of images and videos for Digital Kitchen’s Seattle International Film Festival.

A guide to AfterEffects shortcuts.

8 ways to improve your typography.

The tools artist’s use.

Awesome work by Scott Campbell.

The Rotten Fruit Tardis.

Great book about Advertising by Geigy.

I’ve finally had some downtime (being under the weather forces that upon you) so I now have time to post several things found on the web over the past month or so:

The work of Kristian Mercado NY Cut and Paste Finalist.

Great video for N.A.S.A. by Three Legged Legs.

PSST! 3

The Lost Tribes of NYC.

Speak Up gives us several US designers to bookmark.

The fun work of Bosque.

Edo period monster illustrations.

The mind and spatial bending game play of Fez.

The diverse portfolio of Justin Claus Harder.

Nice article about designing your first body typeface.

Interesting project Super NAFTA Land.

Great window displays at Selfridges.

Great video to highlight an equally interesting lecture about gaming.

Nice hand done typography by Andy Smith.

Dutch designer Jan van Toorn.

The Book Cover Archive.

Beautiful wooden installation.

The Mentalists give use iPod instrumentation to cover MGMT.

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Besides a playable gameboy costume, here is your linky for the weeky:

Noby Noby Boy: a game that is not describable, yet you want to play it.

Madeforeachother.com = an awesome website.

PRINT tells us why we wanted to be artists.

KG does Monty Python (with awesomeness provided by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar).

Jr’s Fun to Draw.

Scintillation, perhaps the most beautiful and mesmerizing thing I have seen in a while.

Nice collage work by James Dawe.

Figure out that font is with the iPhone app WhatTheFont.

David Carson on design.

The Action Figure Museum.

THe work of Human Empire.

Milton Glaser on Shepard Fairy.

Pretty awesome animation at Special Guest.

This looks like an interesting documentary.

Now you can print on a latte!

OMA’s Television Cultural Centre in Beijing recently went up in flames last week. There are some amazing photos before and after the blaze here and here.

Awesome map/diagram of skies in disaster films.

One of my favorite architects Lebbeus Woods apparently did designs for Alien 3.

How to be a motion designer.

A brief video about Coralie Bickford-Smith’s design of a series of horror book covers.

Oh studious students, get your bookmarks ready for some of these goodies found on the internet this past week!

The typography of comic books broken down for you.

Some nice work by Jeffrey Docherty.

How Pixar hires.

Great motion piece for the Bonnaroo festival.

Interesting campaign for and against religion.

Layer Tennis has returned!

Get to IKEA for these wall coverings.

A great collection of Indian matchboxes.

I’ve always enjoyed the work of HORT, and they just updated their site.

Sagmeister’s Made You Look is reprinted and once again brings about the question of why designers’ are reluctant to tell what their fees are.

The Bansky of Milk Bottles.

Great type in motion for the TED Conference.

The AP tries takes on Shepard Fairey for his use of an AP photo of Obama.

Last week or so it was video games done as classic book covers, now it is movies.

For those who illustrate, here are some notes on inking.

Gary Baseman on his art.

Speakup gives us a handful of links to various Dutch designers.

Maurice Binder’s Charade titles.

Onituska Tiger’s retelling of the Chinese Zodiac. Be sure to watch the making of as well.

Make your own handwriting fonts with YourFonts.

Nice Coldplay video.

Superbowl ads (pt. 1) from Creative Review.

Ze Frank’s voice painting system.

A fickr pool of Joseph Muller-Brockmann’s work.

The Journal of Urban Typography.

Coca-cola’s Avatars.

Some nice work by Barcelona’s Diego Bellorin, aka empk.