NYTimes.com: MetroCards for Sale

Last week, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in New York announced that it would be selling advertising space on the front of its fare cards to raise revenue. “The whole thing is available, except for the black stripe,” said Aaron Donovan, an agency spokesman. As a MetroCard-carrying subway rider and graphic designer, I offer a couple of ads that both natives and tourists might actually find useful.

Chip Kidd is a graphic designer and author.

from MetroCards for Sale

Sarcastic Font

Manifesto

For too long e-mails, instant messages, web pages and documents have been unable to fully communicate the subtleties of sarcasm. Text delivered without intonation fail to represent the rare form of language where the intended meaning is the opposite of the written word.

Over the internet we yell at each other with ALL CAPS and emphasize with bold and italics, but where is sarcasm? Where is the nuance, the elegance? We say it is time for a change. It's time for a revolution. It's time for a new font style!


  Bold
  Italic


http://glennmcanally.com/sarcastic/index.htm

Microsoft Re-Designs the Ipod Packaging

Dad's iPad

9 Ways to Improve an Ad [humor]

9 Ways to Improve an Ad by Fred Manley and Hal Riney

Get the new year off to a positive start with these design resolutions

Wake up. I hope you enjoyed your holiday because it’s a new year and it’s time to get back to work.

http://netm.ag/ukpl2L

Catvertising

Design Fantasy Camp

Don't you wish!

From Lunch Breath

Logorama

Nuclear Boy has stinky poop

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sakN2hSVxA&feature=player_embedded

Bird on it

Found at home! - referencing the now famous:

Cats Playing Patty-cake, what they were saying...

I'm Comic Sans, Asshole.

by Mike Lacher

"Listen up. I know the shit you've been saying behind my back. You think I'm stupid. You think I'm immature. You think I'm a malformed, pathetic excuse for a font. Well think again, nerdhole, because I'm Comic Sans, and I'm the best thing to happen to typography since Johannes fucking Gutenberg…"

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