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We love single-serving sites, especially ones that are always adding new content all the while staying within very strict thematic or formal boundaries (like this blog!). It seems like there’s a new one every day (or several), and every week or so one leads to a book deal, so it’s nice to get a big [...]

We really love a spectacularly ridiculous hip hop album cover. You know, one that deploys all the common cliches with copious jewelry, fancy cars, naked women, suits, cigars, a lurking posse, toned and oiled muscles, maybe a skyline, the works. It’s hip-hop, it’s all about showing off and having fun doing it. All of those [...]

While we generally find emoticons silly and pointless and another, rather terrifying example of how digital communication is fast reducing our ability to express genuine, complex emotions in actual words (maybe even sentences!), some of them make up for whatever semantic damage they may do with sheer creativity. Such is the case with a small [...]

Disney has made billions off anthropomorphizing animals, Transformers has done the same with vehicles, now it’s the Internet’s time. That is how we get this illustration imagining that If 7 Popular Websites Were People they would look something like the following assortment of vaguely anime-looking characters. Click image for larger version.

(via Urlesque)

Do you think that maybe, now that collective dreams are possible again, we’ll start seeing the return of slick, stylized, retro-futurist projects, ambitions and advertisements? After all, in the age of everything being possible (in a CG movie if not in real life), and with the dreamy and slick iPhone aesthetic that gets stamped on [...]

In the kind of advertising stunt that will instantly win over music nerds everywhere, Beck’s (the beer, not the nerdy musician) commissioned 10 graphic artists to come up with new cover art for 10 albums culled from Pitchfork’s Best Albums of the Decade lists from the last 4 decades. After those images were unveiled, the [...]

As General Motors continues to repurpose and shape-shift in order to remain competitive, how creative are they really getting? Presumably they’ll still be manufacturing cars, instead of shifting to bikes, trains or some other more sustainable and long-lasting solution. We imagine they’re also sticking to mostly gas-powered vehicles, instead of actually doing something new like [...]

Who cares what Obama’s presidential portrait will look like? Illustrator Alexander Barrett has beaten the Warhol-hugging prez to the punch with his spectacularly Warholian series of images portraying All 44 U.S. Presidents’ Portraits as Pandas. Our favorite has got to be Pandaham Lincoln:

(via The Daily What)

Frank Lloyd Wright, that American architect of opulent hearth-centric homes and worshipper of the automobile, would have turned 142 today were he magically still alive. He’s not, though, and all we have to remember him by are his beautiful buildings, a massive exhibition at his Guggenheim Museum and hundreds of unbuilt projects. Among those, we’ve [...]

When we were kids (like, two years ago) we had this amazing book of cutaways that featured diagrams showing the interior mechanisms of pyramids, submarines, opera houses, tanks, space shuttles and such. It was huge, colorful and chockablock full of facts, and we were pretty convinced it was the coolest book in the world – [...]