The YouWorkForThem is curating the Typecon 2009 Poster Show and is excepting submissions. This year’s show will be held in July 14th — 19th in Atlanta, Georgia.

Get Excited And Make Things print by Matt Jones 
(parody on Keep Calm and Carry On c. 1939)  

(discovered via 20x200)

the design + illustration portfolio of Anna Melcon Bond (discovered via Chronicle Books)

I’m really looking forward to Spike Jonze’s film adaptation (with Dave Eggers) of Maurice Sendak’s beloved children’s book Where the Wild Things Are.

(film poster found via slash film via Nick magazine)

kiyo: matthewb:

Michael C. Place and his team at Build have created this promotional poster for Gary Hustwit’s industrial design documentary, Objectified. And I believe that’s Akzidenz Grotesk rather than the star of his previous film, Helvetica. (via Jason Santa Maria)

O21C car, Biomega bike, Kelvin40 jet and chars by Marc Newson

A Designer’s Pledge by Jeff Matz from Lure Design
(via Sarah Blacksher)

Dewey Martin, Drummer for Buffalo Springfield dies (obituary via NYTimes.com)

Handbill c. 1966 found via oldhandbills.com. The poster artist was Ned Lamont (aka Tom Glass).

Shepard Fairey & Adopt-A-Pet.com

Spacesick’s Retro I Can Read Movie Series
(via Grain Edit)

Anyone Can Swiss by Dirk + Weiss (via AisleOne)

any graphic design professionals frustrated by this? and this is after reading about “snooty” designers in Forbes yesterday…

The Day the Music Died was 50 yrs ago today
(February 3, 1959)

Handpainted poster c. 1959 (and more Buddy Holly memorabilia via WITLOX)

Shepard Fairey Interview on The Colbert Report (video)

Type Tuesday: Start playing
(via Uppercase, poster design by
Coralie Bickford-Smith and Wendy Chapple)

Jonathan Barnbrook’s typographic poster
on 8 years of Bush (via design observer)

Cameron Moll, LLC — detail of Letterpress Poster, 16”x24”