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

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.

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’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’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 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.

We’re going to help you head into the weekend grooving to Miles Davis, tagging walls (totally legally, we swear!), and studying up on Steve Jobs’ impressive list of patents. 

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Diet Coke gets a temporary facelift. Some designers like it; others, not so much. What do you think?

Steve Jobs’ name appears on a mere 313 Apple patents. Only 313? Oh, wait, that’s about 313 more than we’ve got…

There are way fewer legal implications when you tag the walls in this book instead of the ones in your neighborhood.

This sheet music animation of Miles Davis’ So What is pretty mesmerizing. 

To make our dream of being in Tron closer to a reality (you guys dream about that too, right?), we need to get our hands on one of these transforming scooters.

Image: A page of Sherwood Forlee’s Walls Notebook. (via Brain Pickings)

This week we’ve been enjoying the sunshine with a side of punk rock graphics, cool Nike+ visualizations, and a creative design solution for diabetics.

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It’s (really big) outdoor art season.

An awesome visualization of runners’ routes in Manhattan.

A history of punk rock graphic design.

They’re just prints for now, but might become actual bicycles. In which case, sign us up.

The dying art of large-scale ad painting.

Creative design solution for hiding the insulin pumps and glucose monitors that diabetic women wear.

Image: Sex Pistols album cover for 1977’s “God Save the Queen”

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.

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.