A cool panoramic camera, amazing beatboxing videos, and the other great things that’ve kept us busy this week.

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The CBS eye turns 60.

A great way to get total panoramic photos — just toss your camera in the air.

Eve Ashcroft, Paint Whisperer.

Turn your bicycle into a turntable.

It’s been a banner week for beatboxers: Actor Michael Winslow as a one-man Led Zeppelin and improvisational logo-inspired beats.

Surely we can find a way to incorporate some Quantum Levitation into our future signage programs. 

Image: Panoramic camera, by Jonas Pfeil (via Core77).

Crowdsourcing public art, building ginormous Lego structures, digitally reconstructing dreams, and our other fascinating finds this week.

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Learn the ropes of working at Disney in 1943.

Got an extra 400,000 Legos lying around? Try building a life-size Ford Explorer.

The origin of Ferrari’s recognizable logo.

Measuring movies’ visual fingerprints.

Crowdsourced public art in the spirit of JR.

The fact that we’re one step closer to digitally reconstructing our dreams is pretty crazy.

Image: Public art in Tunisia. (via GOOD)

Today we’re learning about Banksy-style marketing, honoring baseball greats, and how just about anything can have a QR code.

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Take a break and go on a quick interactive adventure. (via Quipsologies)

Immortalizing baseball’s greats.

The New Zealand Police Department’s unique Banksy-style marketing efforts.

Track the evolution of famous logos (future incarnations included!).

The inspiration behind Fast Company’s four United States of Design covers.

Exchanging phone numbers too complicated? Just scan your new friend’s QR Code.

The artist behind the Starbucks logo.

Image: Scanz bracelets. A smartphone user can scan a person’s QR code to learn select personal information about them. Image from The New York Times.

This week, we’ve been visualizing the Tour de France, checking out Wieden + Kennedy’s cool office space, and designing our perfect minimalistic vacation homes in the woods.

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Interesting discussion going on over the redesign of the London Tube map. Or is it a diagram?

This vacation home makes a great — and environmentally friendly — alternative to camping.

Pentagram’s wayfinding system for the New York Times building features wonderfully appropriate photos (all from the Times archive) for the room identification signs.

Whimsical poster illustrations of each phase of the Tour de France. (via Core 77)

Great typographic video about a powerful and difficult-to-detect computer virus. Seriously crazy stuff.

A look into Wieden + Kennedy’s awesome Portland digs (which may look familiar from this episode of Portlandia.

Image: Crayonfire’s poster of Stage 19 of the Tour de France.

Heading into the long weekend, we’re getting a glimpse of the weird world of circus art, enjoying celebrities’ personal letterheads, and learning about creating campaign logos. Happy 4th of July!

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Designing campaign logos is more than just writing candidates’ names in red, white, and blue.

The dying art of sideshow banners.

Creating good pictures is about to get easier with this new technology that lets you focus images after you’ve taken them.

A great collection of letterheads, from Frank Lloyd Wright’s architectural design to Ozzy Osbourne’s surprisingly tame one.

From a redesigned boom box to a purifying water bottle, check out the clever designs of the 2011 IDEA Awards winners.

Image: Johnny Meah’s “Human Blockhead” banner at the Meadowlands State Fair (photo: Phil Patton) via AIGA

Movie tie-in book covers that break the mold, parkour classes, off-beat industrial design, and the other news we’ve been enjoying this week.

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Dominic Wilcox’s industrial designs may not be all that practical, but they sure make you look at everyday objects in a new way. Also: they’re hilarious. (Be sure to scroll down to the sketches.)

Penguin’s new edition of Little Red Riding Hood gets a perfectly sinister typographic cover design.

Just try to tell us watching this doesn’t make you want to take up parkour. Impossible.

Creative Review polled designers for their favorite logos. Did your favorites make anyone’s list?

Sick of all the Royal Wedding hullabaloo? Lydia Leith has you covered.

Beyonce joins the fight against childhood obesity. Now that’s what we call a lunch break.

Image: ‘Throne Up’ sick bags from Lydia Leith.

Beautifully minimalist bikes, bizarre package design, Romney’s new campaign logo, and other cool items to liven up your afternoon.

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On this Tax Day, take your mind off your own money by checking out some currency from around the world (like the beautiful Swiss franc, pictured above).

Francesco Bertelli knows what he likes in a bike: vintage, minimal beauty. (via Cool Hunting)

From installing benches to decorating crosswalks, Do-It-Yourself Urban Design is becoming a popular way for citizens to reclaim their environment. 

Why yes, I have always wished tequila came in a gun-shaped bottle. Haven’t you?

A spring break resort for the environmentally conscious. And, apparently, Tom Cruise.

Maybe Mitt Romney’s presidential platform is whiter teeth and poor kerning.

This week we’ve been busy searching for the perfect valentines, studying the evolution of great logos, and watching the Academy’s growing unease with Banksy’s quest for an Oscar.

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Nicholas Feltron produced another great annual report, this one tracking his father’s life.

An interesting glimpse into the process of redesigning a franchise logo.

Is the parody “Exit through the Petshop” part of Banky’s unconventional quest for an Oscar? 

A unique set of photographic infographics.

Track the evolution of some famous logos. Can you believe the student who designed the Nike swoosh was only paid $35?

Valentine’s Day gifts for your lovable nerd.

This week, we’re judging teams by their logos, visiting the streets of India, and marveling at awesome typographic office furniture. ______________________________________________________

Predictions for this weekend’s NFL Conference Championships, based solely on the teams’  logos, typography, and graphics. You know, the things that really matter.

Street art in India is often similar to what you’d see in the U.S., yet also pretty culturally-specific.

Try saying “Gastrotypographicalassemblage” three times fast as you marvel at the fact that this typographic beauty was almost thrown away (and dream about how amazing it would look on your own kitchen walls).

With a love for Westies and Croatian humor and a desire to do something creative every day, this designer created 100 logos in 100 days, none taking more than 100 minutes.

Spring may come to Park Avenue a little sooner than the rest of the country. 

Wondering about the font in the new Comedy Central logo or the latest Ford ad? Fonts in Use has you covered.

Not sure these look particularly comfy, but pretty certain we should get an “S” & “C” for the office.

Image from Pr*ttySh*tty.

This week we’ve been thinking about painting particle accelerators, observing one’s surroundings, and our favorite logos of all time.

The artistry of the Large Hadron Collider in all its 7-ton glory.

Pretty amazing chalk-drawn typography.

The Sartorialist offers great thoughts on connecting with one’s environment every day.

iPad apps for typography lovers.

Creative Review’s April issue will list the Best 20 Logos Ever. Under Consideration gets a jump on the polling. 

Image from GOOD. Josef Kristofoletti’s mural at the Large Hadron Collider.

This week Banksy visits The Simpsons, Gap listens to the design masses, and we learn how to spot pop-culture fonts. 

The Simpsons’ executive producer talks about Banksy’s “couch gag.”

Bands with clever typographic music videos win us over every time. 

A guide to all those pop-culture fonts you recognize.

MOMA is showcasing architecture that’s made both social and artistic impacts.

Gapgate ends with the company throwing out its new logo in favor of its old one.

The Gapgate firestorm, defining “good design,” and other interesting things we’ve stumbled upon over the past two weeks.

Gap redesigns its logo and the internet goes crazy. Brand New recaps the past two days of “Gapgate,” Gap asks for design suggestions, the President of Gap defends the change, the logo itself speaks up, and several websites offer you the chance to Gap-ize your own logo. 

A group of prominent designers share their thoughts on what makes “good design.”  (via SEGD)

Goodbye, Buffaslug! Several NHL teams are returning to their roots.

In true Ikea style, the company releases a minimalist cookbook. (via kottke)

Last week a few of our designers attended an Yves Behar lecture at the Central Library. For the rest of us, here’s a video of his great talk at TED this year about creating products that tell stories.

(Photo: The gradient blue box that started it all, via Brand New)