Having recently been chided for not posting enough non-Adobe links (funny, I used to get nailed for just the opposite), I respectfully submit the following.

• Brutal truth:
  • “Extremely Lame & Incredibly Cloying”: Truthful movie posters, Oscars 2012 edition [Via]
  • “At the airport. F it, I deserve it…” Honest ads. [Via]

• “These pixels are making me thirsty”: A fun illustrated Seinfeld tribute.
• Meyoko draws gorgeous, incredibly intricate illustrated skulls.

• I love Alexandra Pacula’s Blurry Nightlife Oil Paintings.
• “Stacy Green, Will You Marry Me?” Marriage proposal as infographic [Via]
• Unsolicited Proposals for New Beverages: Pass the NyQuil Ice & Earl Grey Loko!

• Bizarre Photoshoppery: “Newt’s Nudes: Renaissance paintings featuring Newt Gingrich’s head.”
• This cute illustration by Tymn Armstrong might become my new desktop. (Or, if you prefer, here’s an edgier alternative. [Via])
• A funky art-making machine: The Chromatic Typewriter
• Historical:
  • Neat Mac/UI history: The original sketchbook of Susan Kare.
  • Vintage illustrations: Gremlins posters from WWII.
  • Neat bit of film history: “How they shot the Star Wars opening crawl“.

• Cinematic:
  • Brilliant: Movies revisited as neon animated GIFs. [Via]
  • Solid: 13 Movie Poster Trends & What They Say About Their Movies. [Via]
• Don’t you hate it when people drive RC cars on planes? Happens all the time!
• Recursive Hulk Hogan mustache–can’t unsee!!
• The New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Books of 2011 list is up.
• Brian Matthew Hart and Dena Pickering make amazingly intricate light paintings.

• “Loose Lips Create Rifts”: Modern “Workplace Propaganda Posters” from Steve Thomas.
• “Wire Inspire“: Motivational posters based on “The Wire.” Fantastic. (Or rather, maybe, sheeeeeeeeit.)[kottke]
• Brian Yap drew this Talib Kweli poster entirely using Adobe Ideas for iPad.
• The quality of entries varies wildly, but I’m generally digging these Minimal Movie Posters.
• The Dark Knight vs… Unicorns? You can’t unsee it! [Via]

• Remixes:
  • Bizarre & kind of excellent: Soviet Army Monument Transformed into Superheroes.
  • Mona Lisa Remix, reducing the painting to just 140 colors. [Via]
• Heh–I love it, quickly: the “Fastest Possible Drawings of Everything.” [Via]
• Dave Grohl as coloring book: check out the Foo Fighters’ absurdist concert rider. (The ice cubes primer is particularly hilarious.)

• Illustration: Alvaro Tapia Hidalgo is one intense individual. [Via]

• Posters:
  • I dig the cool use of negative space in this poster for The Dark Knight Rises. [Via]
  • Portman meets Fairey: Obey the Swan.
  • “A Champion Will Rise… About 2 Inches Off The Ground.”
  • “Jefferson X-Wing” & “AC/D2”: Coachella by way of Star Wars. [Via]
• Infographics:
  • Here’s a brief history of Isotype, “the vintage visual language on which modern infographics are founded.” [Via]
  • I’ve yet to explore the new infographics site visual.ly, but it looks promising.
  • What Would Don Draper Do? [Via]

• Another reason I loved Apple in the 80’s: Vintage ads from Matt Groening (!).
• More beautifully simple visual puns light up IBM’s Smarter Planet series.
• You Will Obey: Shepard Fairey’s They Live Poster. (It all comes full circle.) [Via]
• You won’t be unseeing Fractal Tom Selleck. And you’re welcome.
• Cute: “Snoutlet, The Pigs Behind Electrical Outlets.”
• Heh: I like David Friedman’s idea for Thing Three and Thing Four.

• I love this retro-illustrated poster for “Cars 2.” We’re taking the kids today (er, this evening, boss, if you’re reading) for their first outing to the theater. [Via]
• How about snuggling up with a Photoshop color palette bedspread? [Via]
• “Blood on the Tracks” as pulp fiction & more: What If Your Favorite Album Was a Book? [Via] Update: Check out this slideshow of all the work. [Via Marc Pawliger]
• I get a weird kick out of this Santa/birds illustration combo. Check out lots of other good stuff at stevenbonner.com.
• “Disposable portraits“: Idan Friedman lovingly embosses artwork into cheap aluminum pans.

• I love these clever, subtle silhouettes (Rushmore, PW Herman, etc.) from Olly Moss.
• LayerStyles.org offers a Photoshop-style interface for CSS editing. [Via]
• Ill advised:
  • An illustration I’d almost like to see: “UFC Fighter Has Idea For T-Shirt With A Bunch Of Sh*t Written All Over It.”
  • Worst illustration idea ever? “Gang tattoo leads to a murder conviction“–plus Mr. Peanut!
• To cleanse the palate, here’s some classic Russian design inspiration: The Posters of Dziga Vertov.

• I love these beautifully designed stamps for the Royal Shakespeare Company. [Via]
• Amazing: illustrator István Orosz hides artwork inside anamorphic drawings. [Via]
• Did you know that Photoshop’s 3D lights can do 2D effects?.
• Bass-o’-matic:
  • Saul Bass’s great work has been pretty systematically wiped from DVDs.
  • Fortunately, fans online have been collecting his beautiful title sequences.
  • Christian Annyas rounds up Saul Bass logo design: then and now.

• A colleague rushes in: “My God, this site just changed my life!” ChicksWithSteveBuscemiEyes.
• Michael Kalish has made a portrait of Muhammad Ali using 1300 punching bags, held up by 5 miles of stainless steel cable and 2 miles of aluminum tubing. [Via Maria Brenny]
• Check out the neat HTML parallax on the Bloom.io site; scroll down to see it. [Via]
• “Omar comin’, yo!” The Wire gets made literally Dickensian.

• Interesting infographic: The History of Web Browsers, though to borrow from AJ Soprano, “What, no friggin’ Mosaic?” [Via]
• “A Neverending Volley of American Justice!!” In “I Always Wondered,” Jarrett Green answers and beautifully illustrates his own most pressing questions.
• The designers at Fubiz take a swing at making minimalist packaging. (“How about we add a feature to dial out extraneous BS in one’s designs?” asks my colleague Bruce Bullis.)
• Switchblade combs! What a throwback. Check out the fun “Mediumcore” illustration & others from Leon Ryan.

• Cinematic:
  • Check out Viktor Hertz’s solid pictogram movie posters.
  • Daniel Norris has made a great poster for the old flick Westworld.
• Here’s a rather wonderful birthday card from a dad to his 1-year-old son.
• David Lynch’s hair gets compared to various works of art. [Via]
• Mandelbratwurst: A fractal meat treat!

• I love these beautifully simple, graphical Don DeLillo covers by Noma Bar.
• Neat design history: Logo Evolution of 25 Famous Brands. [Via]
• Coke + La Sagrada Familia? Seems vaguely blasphemous, but it works. [Via]
• Center of Attention celebrates the lost art of record center labels. [Via]

• Japan’s Dark Spring: A beautiful, haunting NYer cover from Christoph Niemann.
• “Help Japan”–beautiful work from Mitch Fleming.
• Lorenzo Moschi’s seismic contribution is well done, too. [Via]

• Dig the clever use of negative space in this “Snooty Peacock” logo.
• “Possible Reasons Why Your Big Idea Is Destined to Fail…” See more “Pictures With Words On Them” from David Fullarton here.
• A bit disturbing:
  • Resist the Nazi Dinosaurs!! Bizarre faux-vintage posters.
  • “The Totally Insane, Candy-Coated Paintings of Charlie Immer”? Yep, that seems about right.
• The Manhattan street grid is 200 years old this week. The NYT’s Map of How Manhattan’s Grid Grew overlays maps from 1811, 1836, and today.
• Neat: UI Stencils help you draw interfaces on paper. [Via]

• Is he an illustrator or a sculptor? Andrew Myers makes amazing portraits made using pegboards & screws. “He starts with a base, plywood panel, and then places pages of a phone book on top. (Cool fact: He’ll use pages from his subjects’ local area.) He then draws out a face and pre-drills 8,000 to 10,000 holes, by hand.” [Via]
• ⁃Ben Heine creates celebrity portraits made from thousands of circles. Of the technique he says, “I first made a photomontage using several references, then a digital painting and I finally applied my ‘digital circlist’ technique (I placed each circle one by one, there is no automatic process).” [Via] The work makes me think of mosaics by Charis Tsevis, including one of me.

• The NYT explains how a reactor shuts down & what happens in a meltdown. [Via]
• Eye-opening: “Chinese provinces compared to countries.”
• Fun poster: A Visual Compendium of Notable Haircuts in Popular Music. [Via]

• Involuntary Collaborations: “I buy other people’s landscape paintings at yard sales & put monsters in them.”
• James Gulliver Hancock is attempting to draw “All The Buildings in New York.” (The crazy ambition would go well with Sufjan Stevens’s Fifty States Project.) [Via]
• Speaking of states, what is your state the worst at? Find out with the United States of Shame.
• “I Wish This Was…” Fun stickers let you put social commentary all over your environment. Via]
• I find these Disney-drawn World War II insignia vaguely creepy. (Update for the benefit of one of my censorious, reactionary readers: It’s the mixture of cutesy & death-dealing that I find creepy. Call it like it is–like this.) [Via]

• With “Google’s World,” Alejo Malia imagines map iconography made huge. [Via]
• ¡Ay, scary Kermit! Dig these offbeat “Sugar Skulls.”
• My wife Margot, seeing Cabel Sasser’s wedding designs, says “Please befriend far less creative people so we can feel OK about ourselves!” Matthew Richmond is similarly humbling.
• Speaking of Margot, this could be a portrait of my curly-headed wife as a cassette tape.
• I love the intricate drawings of Nanami Cowdroy. Margot’s work Mac sports one courtesy of Gelaskins. [Via Paulo Sales]