Last week, Nicholas Felton and Ryan Case, the guys behind Daytum, announced that they were joining the Facebook team. Daytum, the personal data tracking website, will continue to operate. As big fans of Felton’s annual reports, we can’t wait to see what he does at Facebook.

If one thing has become clear in the age of social networking, it’s that people love to share the miniscule details of their lives with each other. And if they can do it in a graphically appealing way, that’s even better. Felton has made smart information design accessible to non-designers—similar to what Target has done with product design—and it’s great to see a company like Facebook placing such value on design and its impact on the user experience. If data tracking and display takes off, it’ll be interesting to see the ways in which it will impact how people think, innovate, connect, and share.

On the other hand, there’s always the concern that when a famously independent designer goes to work for a big company their innovation can lose its luster. We’re hopeful that’s not the case—we really want to be able to track the amount of peanut M&Ms we consume in the office each year or how many times any of us wins a game of foosball against Billy.

What do you think? Will data-tracking be a good addition to Facebook? Will it add value to the way we interact with each other online?

Here’s a sampling of the interesting stories that caught our eye this week.

Pelli Clarke Pelli unveiled its designs for San Francisco’s new futuristic-looking transit center. (Inhabitat)

Is architecture art? (Life of an Architect)

Cool typography can make ads so much cooler. (Best Free Web Resources)

Cover your house in ivy that converts solar energy into electricity. (Dwell)

Zero-waste fashion design. (New York Times)

Here’s a sampling of the interesting stories that caught our eye this week.

This week in typography: some awesome artwork and a debate over the most important typefaces of the past decade. (1st Web Designer; Imprint)

Virgin Atlantic has a new logo and livery, and a cool time-lapse video of the painting process (at the bottom of the post—don’t miss it!).  (Brand New)

Is “Design Thinking” a myth or a powerful tool? (Core 77)

Instead of throwing out your losing lottery tickets, you could just build your dream desire. (Cool Hunting)

Montreal helps the homeless, one parking meter at a time. (GOOD)