When the news broke today that the TTC was considering a ten cent fair hike and a reduction in service to 48 bus routes, I was shocked. Then outraged. Then enraged. Now, strangely calm.

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I’ve been reading The Sartorialist on and off for a couple of years (though you wouldn’t know it to look at me—heh), and I’ve always enjoyed how the man behind the blog, Scott Schuman, manages to blend street and fashion photography so effortlessly, with such captivating results. He makes me want to dress better.

Schuman is the subject of this great little documentary, in which he described what he does, how he does it, and why.

[Via Kottke]

Happy new year everyone! For the first post of 2011, I’d like to share this video from National Geographic. It’s an intro to a year-long special feature they’re doing on our explosively growing human population. Some nice typographic animation too.

American artist Johnny Selman is the man behind BBCX365, a project in which he takes one headline per day from the BBC’s international news coverage and creates an original poster that responds, criticizes, or otherwise represents the news in a visual manner. The styles vary widely between posters, but each is poignant in its own way.

Headline pictured: “CHINA ANGER AT ‘FARCE’ OF LIU XIAOBO NOBEL PEACE PRIZE“

Illustrator/Web Design Brandon Peat and his wife Emma just had a baby. To welcome their new little bundle, the pair have collaborated on an illustrated alphabet inspired by Star Wars characters. What a fantastic way to introduce a new human to both the wonders of letters and the nerd glory of a galaxy far, far away.

They’ve also compiled all the characters into a book, A is for Akbar, which you can get by contributing to their newborn’s college fund.

Check out this stop-motion video made for Ikea by Forsman & Bodenfors. It shows how they put together the Homemade is Best cookbook, which lays out the ingredients for its recipes in really imaginative, unorthodox, and, well, geometric ways. I especially like the little pyramids made out of flour.

[Via Design Milk]

Seeing as how I have an unhealthy addiction to notebooks (the paper kind, not the ones with keyboards), I fell into instant love with these Icon notebooks from Brigada Creativa. They’re a playful mash of digital and analog sensibilities, and I want one.

[Via Design Milk]