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Have a wonderful weekend!

— Denny's new website design. Sweet!

— I want one of these!

— Take a ride on the Amtrak at Union Station.

— A7 Design Awards deadline MONDAY!

Photo from Fisker

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— This, this and this is why bikes are awesome!

— A typeface based on Gandhi's famous glasses

— Book painting art by Mike Stilkey (photo above).

— A is for awesome!

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Have a great weekend!

— Picador posted their new spring covers on facebook this week.

— If your interested. My fantasy baseball draft was this week. It's a 14 person keeper league. I kept Brian McCann, Joey Votto, Robinson Cano, Evan Longoria, and Jose Reyes.

— Condor has a sweet website (and nice bikes)!

— Artist! AOL Artists.

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I know its March Madness but it is also less than two weeks until MLB opening day! YAY!

— One of my fantasy baseball friends, Josh Hynes, won the 2011 SXSW Interactive Award for Best Business website. Amazing work!

— A7 Design Awards call for entries.

— Working on a redesign of our loft condo. Some inspiration.

— I love this laptop case design.

Photo by AAD

PRAY FOR JAPAN

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Help by donating to the Red Cross.

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My thoughts and prayers are with the people of Japan and all of those effected by the earthquake.

— Business cards still mean something. Reactor of Kansas City was featured in this bit (above) from CBS Sunday Morning.

— Sporting Kansas City partners with Livestrong to help fight cancer. Kansas City's now home to Livestrong Sporting Park.

— I really want a Vanilla but there is a 5 year waiting list.

— Paul Rand Film. It's Beautiful.

50 / 50 SAVED

This is an UPDATE from a previous post.

AIGA announced today that "50 books / 50 Covers is back"

I say, THANK YOU, to all who made this happen!

INTERVIEW WITH TAD

Tad Carpenter is one of my favorite local illustrators (and designers). His work can be seen all around town and through out the country. Grain Edit just did an interview with him.

Tad’s has the clarity of a designer with the artfulness of an illustrator. His work is whimsical, fun, and smart as he uses a colorful lovable style to create a myriad of characters and illustrations. In this interview, Tad discusses some of his favorite aspects of his hometown, his influences and creative process, and provides a glimpse into his studio as well as something not many folks know about him.

To read more about Tad and his work check out the full interview at Gran Edit.

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Happy dark rainy Friday!

— Gap is using bike parts as design elements. Yep, bikes are awesome.

— Here in Kansas City, its First Friday. Over 55 galleries open to the public.

— The new iPad 2 was revealed this week. Now it comes with a tarp.

— Dan Mountford's work is amazing. Read more over at Grain Edit.

50 / 50 PETITION

Designers Christopher Sergio and Catherine Casalino created a website to petition AIGA to keep the 50 Books / 50 Covers competition.

This year—after nine-decades—AIGA has decided to quietly discontinue the 50/50 competition.

Their decision was made without public announcement or explanation, and implemented without fanfare. The usual 50/50 deadline came and went, but the “Call For Entries” never went out. The presumption seemed to be that no one would notice its loss.

But people have noticed. And as it turns out, many of us care. In the few short days since the design community first realized what was going on, people have expressed the desire to preserve a competition dedicated solely to excellence in book design. There has been a common consensus that even in the digital age celebrating the physical book is important. That is why we have created this website and online petition—to help spread the word even further, to give voice to a larger audience, and to perhaps see if enough momentum might be built to save the 50 Books / 50 Covers competition.

If you appreciate book design or books (in any format) in general please consider signing the petition to save 50 / 50.