As we move into November, we’re being inspired by illustrated food rules, urban environments, and more. 

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In his latest film, Gary Hustwit documents how ordinary citizens can impact their urban environment.

These vintage-inspired designs for classic board games create a great sense of nostalgia…and really make us want to start a Studio Monopoly tournament.

Noma Bar uses negative space to create some fantastic images.

All good movements need a brand identity. Occupy Wall Street is no exception. 

When was the last time you heard a dry cleaners sound so musical?

Maira Kalman’s charming illustrations highlight Michael Pollan’s Food Rules.  

Image: Noma Bar illustration. (via Design Collector)

Happy Halloween weekend! Designing haunted houses, creating your own monsters (yep, there’s an app for that), and the perfect motorcycle to complete your Tron costume.

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You only have a few more days before Halloween to create your own Daily Monster (or just marvel as Stefan G. Bucher creates his).

The Museum of Obsolete Objects ensures you won’t forget about things like cassette tapes and the abacus.

This architect’s specialty is spooky environmental design.

Tron-esque Light-Cycles. We’ll take a fleet for the Studio, please.

These aren’t your average pumpkin carvings—they’re veritable sculptures.

Now that’s some Halloween spirit. We would definitely trick-or-treat here.

Image via Multy Shades.

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).

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.

The inaugural Seattle Design Festival starts this week! As part of the festival, AIGA Seattle is sponsoring Design Marks—a trail of location markers at important Seattle landmarks—and we’re one of 25 local design firms involved in the event. 

Each firm selected a landmark in downtown Seattle that has influenced the city’s culture—SC chose the historic King Street Station, which is right outside our office. Participants then designed 8-foot-tall markers exploring the impact their landmark has had on design. Each firm also created a short video to further highlight the connection between the landmark and the design culture of Seattle. 

The markers go up this week, and ours is interactive, so we need your help! Swing by King Street Station (you’ll see the marker on the corner of Jackson and 3^rd Avenue South) to check it out between September 15 and 25. And don’t forget to tour the rest of the markers, too!

You can find more on the festival here.

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.

It’s finally feeling summery in Seattle, and we’ve been thinking about traveling the world (perhaps in a Velomobile), the power of typography, and how cool it is that the band CAKE used their own clothing to turn one of their songs into a book.

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Don’t these lovely videos just make you want to grab your suitcase and travel the world?

The band CAKE partnered with BANDbooks to turn its song “Bound Away” into a handmade book, where the song’s lyrics are paired with fabulous illustrations.

“Words have meaning and type has spirit, and the combination is spectacular” - PBS’s “Off-Book” series.

Planning a road trip this summer? Why not travel by Velomobile.

Remember these cool bike rim lights? (Which we still can’t wait to get our hands on, BTW.) They just won a Core 77 Design Award.

Image: Velomobiles, for traveling in reclined style. via GOOD.

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.