These remind me of this brilliant poster for Stanley Kubrick's 2001.

Once weekly, GOOD Magazine posts an infographic, or a "transparency", visualizing everything from the amount of our national acreage controlled by major retail chains (below) to the length of time people spend on popular email clients. They have now created a flickr archive of them all.

Student Debt: GOOD and Futurefarmers look at the ballooning student debt in the United States.

Retail Store Space: The biggest retailer in the world covers an area larger than Manhattan. GOOD and Futurefarmers look at "the amazing amount of space occupied by a few ubiquitous chains."

Oblique Strategies is a set of special cards created by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt whose purpose is to provide creative inspiration.

In an interview, Eno describes them thusly:

The Oblique Strategies evolved from me being in a number of working situations when the panic of the situation - particularly in studios - tended to make me quickly forget that there were others ways of working and that there were tangential ways of attacking problems that were in many senses more interesting than the direct head-on approach. If you're in a panic, you tend to take the head-on approach because it seems to be the one that's going to yield the best results. Of course, that often isn't the case - it's just the most obvious and - apparently - reliable method. The function of the Oblique Strategies was, initially, to serve as a series of prompts which said, "Don't forget that you could adopt *this* attitude," or "Don't forget you could adopt *that* attitude."

Interested? If forty-five bucks for a deck sounds steep, you can get the next best thing with the new Oblique Strategies feed on Twitter. You can even pick up a few strategies from the man himself by following Brian Eno.

It’s like having your own Magic 8-Ball of cryptic design wisdom!

I love Andy Gilmore. Something about him reminds me of Stanley Kubrick.

Check out their blog for more vintage screen-print inspirado

This Wednesday, enjoy a moment of Zen. Take a look these aerial shots of Northern Netherlands tulip fields in full bloom. It's like a wall of those great mid-sixties Gene Davis pictures.

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I love her use of bright colors and marker as a medium. The texture, combined with the repetition of shapes makes this series of illustrations simple, yet rich.

(This particular piece is my Twitter background, until I can find the time to make a huge version of the DLB guillotine)

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