Outline of lectures in Graphic Design History for students at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia - Fall Semester 2008 :

History Of Graphic Design

On VANDELAYDESIGN :

35 Photoshop Tutorials for Designing Your Own Posters

On davidthedesigner a series of articles on:

52 fonts you could use instead of helvetica

A beautiful post on BibliOdyssey:

Calligraphy Exhibition

Beautiful calligraphy images. Links to the artists' pages are provided.

One more article on the history of type on I Love Typography :

A Brief History of Type - Part 5
Slab Serif / Egyptian

“ People use lots of water for drinking, cooking and washing, but even more for producing things such as food, paper, cotton clothes, etc. The water footprint of an individual, business or nation is defined as the total volume of freshwater that is used to produce the goods and services consumed by the individual, business or nation. ”

• Water footprint
• The massive scale of UK's water consumption
• The hidden cost of your food and drink

I agree in principle and I actually don't see anything particularly new in it but I also think that the water used to cool nuclear reactors and in heavy industry processes should be taken into consideration. The general approach to the use of resources is at best erratic and often downright irresponsible. I'm still trying to figure out if it's done consciously having as the sole target a bigger income or is just the result of ineptitude by most of the “top specialists” in charge.

i love typography's Sunday Type post is, as usual, a treasure chest:

Sunday Type: ornament type

“ Stored in a sky-lit reading room on the top floor of the Biblioteca Nazionale in Naples are the charred remains of the only library to survive from classical antiquity. The ancient world's other great book collections - at Athens, Alexandria and Rome - all perished in the chaos of the centuries. But the library of the Villa of the Papyri was conserved, paradoxically, by an act of destruction. Lying to the northwest of ancient Herculaneum, this sumptuous seaside mansion was buried beneath 30m of petrified volcanic mud during the catastrophic eruption of Mt Vesuvius on August 24, AD79. Antiquities hunters in the mid-18th century sunk shafts and dug tunnels around Herculaneum and found the villa, surfacing with a magnificent booty of bronzes and marbles. Most of these, including a svelte seated Hermes modelled in the manner of Lyssipus, now grace the National Archeological Museum in Naples.”

In search of Western civilisation's lost classics

A nice tool:

Tiled backgrounds designer

“ In a revolutionary leap that could transform solar power from a marginal, boutique alternative into a mainstream energy source, MIT researchers have overcome a major barrier to large-scale solar power: storing energy for use when the sun doesn't shine.”

Solar revolution