“Let It Dough!,” Christoph Niemann ditches the LEGO blocks and has more fun with some cookie dough. (more messy illustrations via NYTimes.com)

What if credit cards were designed more like food nutrition labels?

Op-Chart: Healthy Credit designed by David Gibson, Carla Hall and Sylvia Harris
(via NYTimes.com)

That Eggleston Photograph (via NYTimes.com)

new work by Pentagram: Murals for The Library Initiative

Michael Bierut with a team of designers at Pentagram collaborate with other graphic designers, artists and architects to help beautify the elementary school libraries in New York City’s five boroughs. The expansive L!brary Initiative includes 5 newly built libraries in the Bronx, featuring murals by Rafael Esquer, Maira Kalman, Christoph Niemann, Stefan Sagmeister and Yuko Shimizu, and Charles Wilkin.

I first read about this inspiring, fantastic, beautiful project in the New York Times last week in an article titled, A Is for Artwork That Lures Bronx Schoolchildren to New Libraries.

(the mural seen in the image above is by Christoph Niemann for P.S. 69 in the Bronx).

Eduardo Recife’s photo illustration accompanying the “Generation OMG” article in The New York Times (an unusual but thought provoking article)

“In 1951, Time magazine set out to paint a portrait of the nation’s youth, those born into the Great Depression. It doomed them as the Silent Generation, and a generally drab lot: cautious and resigned, uninterested in striking out in new directions or shaping the great issues of the day — the outwardly efficient types whose inner agonies the novel “Revolutionary Road” would dissect a decade later…Today’s youngest children — the recession babies — are being raised in the same kind of protective bubble as the Depression babies…” —Kate Zernike writes for the NY Times

Leanne Shapton illustrates a few favorite books authors are taking to dinner in the Sketchbook section of this week’s New York Times Sunday Book Review.

“…In the 1920s, the Deco boom peaked just before the bust, pitting decadent design against austere economics. Here’s a look at the casualties and the wounded: New York’s Machine Age monoliths literally cut short by the Great Depression…”

Urban Un-Planning | Form Follows Finance
(via NYTimes.com)

The New York Times Article Skimmer
(discovered via basement)

Printing The NYT Costs Twice As Much As Sending Every Subscriber A Free Kindle (via alley insider)
This makes me want to cry…

“…what if The New York Times goes out of business—like, this May? It’s certainly plausible…”  —from the hopefully too pessimistic article “End Times” from The Atlantic

taylorswaim:

whatcriscilikes:

inothernews: You know you want to.

please.

The 10 Best Books of 2008 via NYTimes.com

(graphic by Jason Fulford and Tamara Shopsin)