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The info-graphic work of Nicholas Feltron has to be some of the most well rounded in the business. His attention to detail is flawless and the use of color and type is spot on. It’s easy for info-graphics to become too over crowded and cluttered with information, but Feltron’s work breathes with a huge sigh of relief so the statistics are still easily understood. Above are just a few samples of his extended portfolio. Check out more of his work.

Though the technology has long come and gone (for the most part), something about cassette tapes just never gets old to me and coming across insert designs like these, they never will. The colors and simplicity are so on point. There is a nice set up on flick where you will find plenty more inserts, most of which are of European descent…of course.

Dating from the late 1700s up through the 1990s playbills were the main form of communication for theatrical events and as you can see utilized some very impressive type and layout options to really grab hold of the public’s attention. Leeds Playbills contains nearly 5,000 high resolution scans of these vibrant playbills which are part of the Leodis digitization project from the Local Studies Library collection in Leeds. The time and care that went into setting the type and printing these bills is amazing and well worth the tedious effort to produce posters like these.

Via Woodtyper.

The ampersand has always been one of my favorite characters. In many good typefaces it usually has a little more personality than the rest of the character set and is always fun to design with. The Ampersand is a nice blog dedicated to the little guy where users submit pictures of any type of ampersand they come across. Above are some of my favorites from the site, especially that last one from House Industries.

Beautiful mix of photographs from Todd Richardson who not only shoots in digital, but also with a 35mm and Polaroid. His eye for composition, color and processing is striking to say the least. You feel as if the real world actually had the vibrant colors and effects his photographs truly bring.

Vintage Bus is exclusively devoted to the vintage Volkswagen buses built from 1949 to 1967, otherwise known as split-window buses, splitties, splits, microbuses, micros, transporters, bullies, sambas and transporters. The shape of the buses really lend towards the branding of them with many different companies where they utilized the space with color and type in very intriguing ways. VW needs to start producing these again, at least for the sake of design like this.

Via Original Linkage.

One of the best places on the net to shop for true vintage goodness is Three Potato Four. Sure some of the stuff is expensive, but most of the items are one of a kind and completely worth it. I spend hours on this site wishing I had a random stack of Benjamins I could throw down at some of my favorite pieces which I posted above.

Though it’s believed that HTML5 will not be fully completed until 2022, some features can already be implemented within our work today, while others are still in development or haven’t even been started. This graph provides a clear understanding of some of the more important HTML5 attributes and elements and what browsers currently support them. It also gives insight to the heated battle between Flash and HTML5 video, which many big companies have already switched too, namely Apple with the iPhone and iPad.

Another nice feature that HTML5 offers in different ways is shorter, cleaner code which helps reduce file size and allows for faster web browsing. This video provides some other elements that are already widely supported right now and help with cleaning up some code.

Dive Into HTML5 is an in-progress online manuscript that is another good resource into the current and future world of HTML5

The geek inside me is excited to see the outcome of HTML5 over the next decade. I have my fingers crossed that it will allow for a better way to bring typography to the web minus Flash or Javascript or some other type of plug-in, but who even knows what computers will look like or how they will perform in 2022 and whether or not something even more substantial will have come along to replace it all, though I doubt it.

Graph via Focus.