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The Journal of Commercial Art, via the silver lining

Mad Men characters get the Barbie and Ken doll treatment.

“…The characters to become dolls are Don Draper, the show’s leading man; his wife, Betty; his colleague at the Sterling Cooper agency, Roger Sterling; and Joan Holloway, the agency’s office manager who was Roger’s mistress. That two dolls represent a relationship outside wedlock, and Don Draper’s propensity for adultery, may be firsts for the Barbie world since the brand’s introduction five decades ago. But for the sake of the Barbie image, her immersion in the “Mad Men” era will go only so far: The dolls come with period accessories like hats, overcoats, pearls and padded undergarments, but no cigarettes, ashtrays, martini glasses or cocktail shakers…

— via The New York Times

Jeanie Nelson from The Paper Nut unveils the finished design of “The Modern English Alphabet” poster (discovered via black eiffel)

“How to Design a Cover in 1:55 seconds”

The Creative Director of Orbit Books, Lauren Panepinto, shows the time consuming process of designing a book cover in a time-lapse video and offers additional comments on the project.

cute cuckoo clocks by Diamantini & Domeniconi
(first discovered via [BB-Blog] via more.)

To celebrate 10 years, Real Simple mag commissions clock designs for their covers
(discovered via NYTimes.com)

posters for winners of Best Animated Feature Oscar

vintage design by Max Huber for Borsalino
(via 80magazine)

a hand-crafted iPad case made of hardwood and bamboo
(first discovered via Gizmodo from Vers Audio)

new poster for Pixar’s Toy Story 3
(via Internet Movie Poster Awards Gallery)

book sculptures and photography by Paul Octavious
(discovered via swissmiss, photo above via Paul Ocatavious)

“Stamp-Sized Paper “Chip” Diagnoses Diseases For Just a Penny”
(first discovered via inhabitat)

“Former Book Designer Says Good Riddance To Print”
(via NYT’s Bits Blog, images larger via Craig Mod’s “Books in the age of the iPad”)

discovered that today is the 332nd anniversary of Antonio Vivaldi’s birthday after pondering why the Google logo was updated with what I thought were broken violins…

(spotted above record for sale on eBay for a high price tag, also see Alvin Lustig “LP cover design, fresh from 1954” via Elina Minn, & looks like Javier García got lucky)