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Art & Design

A collection of 11 issues

For xenophobes and numismatists

The Royal Mint has shown off its new coin designs, reports the Guardian, and they are pretty grim. Designed to look like bits of the royal coat of arms, that perfect symbol of everything British, the coins’ design works when they are arranged in a rather odd pattern (see the

Zacharzewski photography

Some nice royalty-free photos from another Zacharzewski here.

Photographs of the year's events

Reuters’ photos of the year 2007.

Thoughts on web design

Do Canonical Web Designs Exist?/a>

103 years of the subway

A collection of photographs at Slate.

Obscene Interiors

A collection of online male personal ad photos (hem, hem), with the advertisers blanked out. Why? So you can critique the décor, of course. Via MeFi.

The Helvetica Meditations

A series of photos of Helvetica, the font of the 20th century, via MetaFilter. Update: A useful web design resource on the fonts real people have available is here. Also, a list of fonts you might want to use if you’re bored of Helvetica.

Blandlands

Aaron Valdez is blogging a series of action-free videos of suburbia, which is really atmospheric and thoughtful: Blandlands. Reminds me of Frank Breuer’s photographs of warehouses and logos.

TV station idents

A great selection of old TV station idents, recreated in Flash, here.

Garry Trudeau interview

The creator of Doonesbury interviewed at length in the Washington Post.