Typographic buildings, inverted skyscrapers, and a few other fascinating finds for you this week.

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Scared of heights? An apartment in the Earthscraper may be just for you. (Unless you’re afraid of dark, underground spaces, that is…)

Great buildings with typographic exteriors.

Charting the evolution of Western dance music.

The Comedy Carpet is a large (really large!) typographic installation in Blackpool, UK. Can you imagine hand-setting something with more than 160,000 letters?

A new interactive exhibit at the Children’s Museum of Manhattan teaches kids about creating healthy lifestyles. 

Image: The Domino House via Letterology

As we move into November, we’re being inspired by illustrated food rules, urban environments, and more. 

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In his latest film, Gary Hustwit documents how ordinary citizens can impact their urban environment.

These vintage-inspired designs for classic board games create a great sense of nostalgia…and really make us want to start a Studio Monopoly tournament.

Noma Bar uses negative space to create some fantastic images.

All good movements need a brand identity. Occupy Wall Street is no exception. 

When was the last time you heard a dry cleaners sound so musical?

Maira Kalman’s charming illustrations highlight Michael Pollan’s Food Rules.  

Image: Noma Bar illustration. (via Design Collector)

Happy Halloween weekend! Designing haunted houses, creating your own monsters (yep, there’s an app for that), and the perfect motorcycle to complete your Tron costume.

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You only have a few more days before Halloween to create your own Daily Monster (or just marvel as Stefan G. Bucher creates his).

The Museum of Obsolete Objects ensures you won’t forget about things like cassette tapes and the abacus.

This architect’s specialty is spooky environmental design.

Tron-esque Light-Cycles. We’ll take a fleet for the Studio, please.

These aren’t your average pumpkin carvings—they’re veritable sculptures.

Now that’s some Halloween spirit. We would definitely trick-or-treat here.

Image via Multy Shades.

We’re going to help you head into the weekend grooving to Miles Davis, tagging walls (totally legally, we swear!), and studying up on Steve Jobs’ impressive list of patents. 

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Diet Coke gets a temporary facelift. Some designers like it; others, not so much. What do you think?

Steve Jobs’ name appears on a mere 313 Apple patents. Only 313? Oh, wait, that’s about 313 more than we’ve got…

There are way fewer legal implications when you tag the walls in this book instead of the ones in your neighborhood.

This sheet music animation of Miles Davis’ So What is pretty mesmerizing. 

To make our dream of being in Tron closer to a reality (you guys dream about that too, right?), we need to get our hands on one of these transforming scooters.

Image: A page of Sherwood Forlee’s Walls Notebook. (via Brain Pickings)