“Inside ‘Mad Men’: On Set and Behind the Scenes of the Emmy-Winning Show” (photography by James Minchin III via Rolling Stone)

redesignrelated:

Cartoon Network rebranding and logo design tweak
(images and more via Brand New)

The new efforts also include a fresh new on-air animated promo designed by Brand New School seen below:

a review of “Mad Men” office furniture (via The Mid-Century Modernist)

R.I.P. Gary Coleman
(photo of Diff’rent Strokes cast via BET)

Cooking Channel, the sister television channel to Food Network officially launches on May 31st, 2010. The website CookingChanneltv.com is now live.

Design:related has a post about the graphics for the new on-air, print, and digital designs for Cooking Channel.

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

redesignrelated:

The classic MTV logo sort of gets a redesign. A newly cropped design removes the tagline which emphasizes that the brand represents “music television.” This is the first official logo redesign for the brand in 29 years.

image & more info via The Wrap: “It’s Official: MTV No Longer About ‘Music’”

redesignrelated:

“Super Bowl XLIV, Extra Bold ” designed by Attik
(via Brand New)

Morgan Spurlock’s documentary for The Simpsons

“From Voodoo Doughnuts in Portland, Oregon, to unauthorized Duff Beer in Argentina, Morgan Spurlock delivers an entertaining documentary on the world’s favorite dysfunctional (and loving) family…” (via design:related)

another “threatening” message in my inbox from Time Warner Cable: 
Roll Over or Get Tough

The Simpsons 20th Anniversary celebration continues…
(above image scanned in from Fast Company magazine)

“R.I.P. Flight Of The Conchords”
(via Videogum)

“How 3.6 Zettabytes of Data Get Consumed”
(discovered via Gizmodo)

“The online video directory service Clicker launches Thursday at the NewTeeVee Live conference. If you watch TV, you will love this site…”  (via CNET)

Pentagram’s UI Design & Identity for the Litl, ”an innovative new web computer, or webbook, that marries the communication functions of a laptop and TV…”
—via Pentagram