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

Typography games, Ai Weiwei’s latest gig, and other finds keeping us occupied this week.

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Ai Weiwei served as art director for the cover story of the latest issue of W…via Skype.

File under: Awesome (Also under: Way Harder than You Expect): Cheese or Font?

And while we’re talking about typography games, how’s your kerning?

An interactive Parisian garden that ignite children’s imaginations.

Clever neon posters, from Superman to the Beatles.

These little Lego guys are excellent printers.

Image: Neon posters by Mr. Whaite.

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 checking out Park(ing) Day, a grassroots plan to bring light to a small village, and a logotype lesson from Doyald Young.

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What a fascinating and simple way to let some light in.

Charles Schulz reminds us that there’s a little bit of Charlie Brown in everyone.

A glimpse into the creation of Coca-Cola’s first neon sign at Piccadilly Circus.

Doyald Young talks about his life and the art of logotype design.

He’s a deep-sea diver/race car driver/pianist/Judo master. Oh, and also, the former president of Russia.

We just checked out some of the Seattle “parks” for 2011 PARK(ing) Day. What’s going on in your city?

Image: Coca-Cola’s sign at Piccadilly Circus (via Creative Review).

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.

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

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.

This week, we’re enjoying Icelandic potato chips, sculptures that move on their own, and a mother’s first typography lesson to her daughter. 

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Michael Graves on cleaning, the color blue, and the “democratization of design.”

Great package design for new, purely Icelandic potato chips.

A designer gives her daughter her first typgoraphy lesson.

This kinetic sculpture is both really cool and kind of unnerving.

London, from A to Z.

The international arts community is calling for the release of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei with a petition started by the Guggenheim Foundation.

Hairstyles of the rich and famous, data about our data-filled world, cassette-tape packaging, and the other cool stuff we’ve seen this week.

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Try your hand at putting famous hairstyles with their famous faces. (Hint: You’ll know if the hair is David Lynch’s because it’ll look an awful lot like Starry Night.) 

Shinichi Maruyama can work wonders with some paint and a quick shutter.

Google’s “Think Quarterly” has a slick design and some fascinating articles focused on — what else? — data. 

How artists can help re-shape Japan’s perspectives as it begins to recover.

When you made that cute senior girl all those mix tapes, we hope you kept the packaging in there. Cool graphics and your favorite jams — how could she not fall for you?

Excuse me, I think you’ve got a little Helvetica on your face.

Image: Maruyama’s Garden #4