From the Dept. of the Brilliantly Simple:

• Viva dry erase: Slate shows a great new set UPS ads and talks about how they came to be.
• Comedy Central’s new illustrated campaign is a model of efficiency–and it’s more than a little edgy in spots. [Via]
• Can you make an ad campaign from clip art?  Yes, if you’re making dirty little stories for 42 Below Vodka.

And elsewhere:

• Speaking of stock illustrations, Gene Gable features the great clip art (oxymoron? not this time) of Lew Hymers.
• Alberto Seveso has a really fresh take on the genre of vector-illustrated women.  More images are on Flickr, and you can buy prints on his site. [Via]
• Tech Vector offers a clean design, good choons, great A2Detail. [Via]
• Pablo Bernasconi makes cool collage portraits.  The site navigation is a little wonky, but I think it’s worth the effort. [Via]
• Fiodor Sumkin is back with more letter-rich goodness.  His site’s frameset design makes it hard to link to specific bits, but I especially like the "Moscow-80" work.
• Here’s a collection of Photoshop-powered fantastical houses [Via]. Reminds me of this defiant dude–no Photoshop involved.

Finally, it’s a little tangential, but I spotted a nice shout-out for CS3 on illustration blog Drawn: "You’ve probably already heard all the buzz about it being the biggest upgrade ever, bla bla bla. Well, this time the buzz is true… I predict our industry (I mean anything graphically creative) is about to undergo a huge jump in look, feel, efficiency, and impact because of this." Thanks, guys! [Via Joe Ault]