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 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

This week we learned how to print synthetic money, how horrific most detergents are on clothes, and the history of the Oreo.

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Rob Zombie shows us the horrors of harsh detergents.

Canada rolls out poylmer banknotes. (Not sure what the heck that is? Check out this infographic of the “painstaking and high-tech affair” that is printing synthetic money.)

We’re loving the retro feel of these posters and the way they capture the personalities of the players and their teams. Goooooooooal!

No need to create your own drinking game for Checkers, this new board’s one step ahead of you.

Why Oreo might be connected to the Knights Templar and how it beats Hydrox — it’s all in the emboss.

A new generation of artists growing up with Sister Corita Kent, the silkscreening activist nun. 

Image: Sucker for Soccer, by Zoran Lucic.

This week we’ve been introduced to Apple’s new Headquarters, Nordstrom’s classy wayfinding icons, and the tastiest placeholder text generator ever.

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The iSpaceship has landed.

Everything’s better with bacon, even your placeholder text.

Simple and clever concert poster for The Rolling Stones (not the Rolling Stones, but a Stones cover band. Articles are important, kids!)

The Olympic Torch for the London games: a gold, shiny, thoughtful design.

Physics can create some pretty neat art: check out these sound waves and rice, plus swinging pendulums.

Nordstrom puts its own stylish twist on wayfinding icons.

Won’t you look stylish riding your mahogany bike in your chic new biking clothes? Oh yes. You will. 

Image: Bacon Ipsum