You are quite positive there has never been a gun in your office, and never will be.
MS Paint Adventures is a mix of webcomic, graphical text adventure, and genius.
Helvetica (fuck yeah) - now in the flesh
Sometimes a dude just <3s Helvetica. The lower back in question belongs to Glenn Sorrentino, a US Marine turned Graphic Designer who is clearly fond of the classic typeface. His portfolio of design and photography is also more than worthy of a few minutes of your time.
Yulia Brodskaya
The personal site of Yulia Brodskaya. Beautiful papercraft work from this London-based illustrator and designer. I can't even comprehend the kind of tactile skill you need to create something like these.
I'm particularly fond of the way that all the type-based images use Helvetica, completely reworking that font's usually 'invisibile' forms into something astounding and fluid.
Goodbye Oliver Postgate
Charlie Brooker's very insightful eulogy for Oliver Postgate. I don't think anyone could have said it better.
FontFlake
FontFlake, by Miller Designworks, is a simple flash ecard that makes an adjustable snowflake from letterforms. Festive.
Sursly
Here's a really nice site by New York designer Tyler Finck. This sort of thing used to mean a full-flash site (which I've never had anything against, if done well) but this is all handled using javascript. Tasty.
Pointed out by Elliot Jay Stocks via Twitter.
Leftloft
A few weeks ago I did a quick writeup of Corporate Risk Watch, an extremely corporate site which nonetheless had launched with an amazingly bold design. Unfortunately, I couldn't find out any information about the designer(s) behind the site at the time. Yesterday, Flavio and Daniele from Leftloft, the studio who developed the site, left a comment on my writeup to let me know they had fixed the one small gripe I had mentioned. So now it's just about perfect as far as I'm concerned!
Anyway, it's good to see that Leftloft's other work is of just as high a standard. Check them out!
Mario 3, expressed through the medium of pushpins
Any of you who visit here regularly (and my Mint stats confirm your existence) will be able to see a bit of a pattern forming here. What can I say? The rotund red Italian plumber was a massive formative influence on me, and probably goes some way towards explaining the state of me right now. Anyway, 1 pinboard and 17,000 pins later, a group of students ended up with a pretty amazing tribute to possibly the best game of all time.
Annabelle Shelton
This is something I've had sitting around for ages — I uploaded the images shortly after I first started this site, but for one reason or another didn't manage to write about until now. During the appallingly-named Milton Keynes Big Moo festival (a great own goal for a town which is constantly associated only with our infamous bovine sculptures), we found ourselves traipsing around Milton Keynes city centre with a couple of friends from out of town. There were various displays around the place of arts and crafts from in and around the town, including a large exhibition in Middleton Hall of the work of local artists. As is often the way around these parts, the quality was wildly variable, but (for me at least) the work of Annabelle Shelton really stood out from the rest as something pretty special.
Edgar Walthert
There's some really nice work in the portfolio of Edgar Walthert. The type section is a particular highlight, with a really nice sketchbook of great type sketches. I'm a bit of a sucker for interesting sketchbooks — I'm pretty sure it's just jealousy, as I'm really bad at keeping sketchbooks coherent, and end up having all my drawings on random bits of paper and spread through about five books at a time.