I covered some wild Japanese barcodes a few years ago. The Dieline has a nice roundup of some new ones I’ve never seen before. Awesome!

Logopond is a website that provides inspiration for logo design. They have 33,624 different logos on their site, and more are added everyday. It's like a logo search engine...It helps designers see what other people have done, and it allows designers to get ideas from other logos. On top of being a gold mine of logo inspiration it is also has blogs and forums that talk about logos, and Graphic Design...

Rian Hughes is an accomplished illustrator/graphic designer/comics artist/typographer from the UK.   His work was recently profiled at the Art Directors Club in NYC.  Veer.com put together a pretty interesting little feature on Hughes which includes his discussion at the event.  This is a worth while watch if you are into graphic design and typography in any way. Blurb from Veer...

The design maestros up in Seattle are throwing their annual sticker sheet release party Saturday night, where the subjects and stars of their newest sticker art will be unveiled. Friends and family, athletes and creatives alike are invited individually to submit their photos, artwork, and really anything that might make the Spacecraft crew crack a smile. The selected images are then given some trademark...

Noodlegun is an online graphic design magazine that you yourself can contribute to.  They may even use your work if they think it's good.  Submissions for the next issue are due Oct. 8th, so get to it.  

Donated by designers and artists around the globe, posters sold at the So-Cal Fire Poster Project raise funds for victims of the wildfires that devastated Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and San Diego Counties. All proceeds will be given to the Salvation Army, for the 2007 California Wildfire fund.This project is modeled after the Hurricane Poster Project, an effort started for victims of Hurricane...