• Wallpaper* subscriber cover by Jake and Dinos Chapman
  Just brilliant. The Chapmans are in the enviable position of being permitted to fuck around with pretty much any cultural establishment that tires to hire them.
  (tags: magazines deign graphic art)

• An open letter to all of advertising and marketing
  From Brian. Whoever he may be, he is a hero.
  (tags: advertising humour)

• My love affair with timur (or how to cook a Nepali village feast)
  Lisa Katayama writing for BoingBoing on Nepali street food in SF. The recipes at the end seem worth holding on to.
  (tags: food cookery corry)

• Frameworks for citizen responsiveness
  Adam Greenfield expanding intelligently on existing networks for citizens to report 'stuff' to their city (FixMyStreet et al) and wondering whether urban bug trackers point to a potential future solution.
  (tags: design networking urban urbanism services planning theory connectivity futurology marginwalker)

• The Harvie Consultancy
  A single-page website I’ve recently built for Amanda Harvie’s new consultancy startup.
  (tags: consultancy consultants financial political transport environment sustainability)

I don’t usually self-promote, but with website projects it’s useful to give them a leg up in search rankings by providing some incoming links … I’ve recently been putting together a visual identity for Amanda Harvie’s new startup, The Harvie Consultancy; part of that is a simple single-page web presence until they are ready for a full site to be built.

• Brilliant airline livery
  South African budget airline Kuala have redesigned their airplane livery in-house. It’s very, very well done.
  (tags: design graphic airline transport branding identity copywriting writing humour)

• Bookbook
  Nothing fancy, just a really nice laptop sleeve from Twelve South.
  (tags: product design)

• Bellerby & Co
  After setting out a few years ago to buy a globe for his father's 80th birthday and finding pricey pieces that fell short of his expectations in craftsmanship, London craftsman Peter Bellerby took it upon himself to come up with something better.
  (tags: product design craftsmanship geography manufacturing shop retail)