This week we’re celebrating Steve Jobs’ impact on design, turning eyesores into artwork, and savoring some tasty typography.

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Typography and cookies. Could there be a better combination?

Uniting people around the world through laughter and balloon hats.

The ABCs of Bacon.

A Nebraska non-profit turns abandoned grain silos into artwork.

Haven’t you always wanted a beautiful, handmade wooden bicycle? Well, you’re in luck.

Jobs’ 2005 commencement speech at Stanford: how a calligraphy class shaped the future of Apple, connecting the dots in your life, and creating great work.

Image by Jonathan Mak, via My Modern Met.

This week, we’re loving Marty McFly’s Nikes, Hell’s rebranding efforts, and college football fashion.

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Planning a vacation? This destination’s “simply heavenly”.

Great Scott! Nike has re-created Marty McFly’s awesome self-lacing shoes from Back to the Future.

Time magazine has a feature with fascinating and heartbreaking accounts of people’s experiences on 9/11.

Debating one of the most important aspects of college football: the fashion.

How six designers created posters for upcoming productions of the Mark Rothko play “Red.”

Image: Nike Mags. (via Cool Hunting)

This week we’ve been brushing up on our fashion history, sustainable farming, and troops’ “home-cooked” meals from around the world. 

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We’ve been trying to figure out which part of this cool new “tablet” we’d lose first, the pen or the sensor. Either way, it looks pretty awesome.

Dance your way through 100 years of fashion.

Bringing soldiers in Afghanistan a taste of their home country.  

Great branding for the Parklife Music Festival that embraces some classic and clever scenes from the festival. (via Colossal)

If this is the future of air travel, book me a ticket.

A lovely animated short, commissioned by Chipotle, about the value of a sustainable food system.

Image: Parklife Music Festival by Briton Smith.

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)

This week we’ve been enjoying the sunshine with a side of punk rock graphics, cool Nike+ visualizations, and a creative design solution for diabetics.

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It’s (really big) outdoor art season.

An awesome visualization of runners’ routes in Manhattan.

A history of punk rock graphic design.

They’re just prints for now, but might become actual bicycles. In which case, sign us up.

The dying art of large-scale ad painting.

Creative design solution for hiding the insulin pumps and glucose monitors that diabetic women wear.

Image: Sex Pistols album cover for 1977’s “God Save the Queen”

On this sunny afternoon, we’re marveling at crazy-looking pillows for on-the-go napping, U2’s 360 Tour, the redesigned dietary guidelines, and more.

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U2’s in Seattle this weekend, with their 120 semis of equipment, and The Claw.

I’m sure no one will notice you taking a nap at your desk with your ostrich pillow.

The USDA throws out the pyramid for a plate (that looks an awful lot like a pie chart…), but if that one’s not working for you, you can just design your own.

Helvetica may be the vanilla of typography — and that’s not such a bad thing.

Image: U2’s 360 Tour in Denver. Photo via Jessica Patterson at Design.org

This week, we’ve experienced healing through fine art, retro packaging design, and the dangers of too much historical preservation.

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Apparently, Monet paintings can cure hay fever and Georges Seurat is the patron saint of great skin…just a few of the healthy tidbits you’ll learn at New York’s new Art Healing Ministry.

John Cho Moore creates thoughtful and lovely bags, and Kai Hsing’s video beautifully documents the process.

Rem Koolhaas’s new exhibit questions our eagerness for historic preservation.

The retro trend hits packaging. 

From ABBA to ZZ Top, you can get your hands on signed prints of some of the most iconic pop culture photographs.

Finally the ladies join the world of foosball.

Image: Some of the new retro product packaging. (Boyle + Gardner for The Wall Street Journal)