This poster, created to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the National Repertory Orchestra, is just lovely.  The letterpress creates great texture, and I love how the swirls around the edges of the violin echo the cuts in the instrument itself. (Hero Design Studio via Oh So Beautiful Paper)

This year's Grammy Awards, held back in February, used a lovely campaign called "Celebrate the music that makes us," designed and implemented by TBWAChiatDay.  I don't know how I didn't see this earlier!  They spoke to artists like Stevie Wonder, Coldplay, and Rihanna to learn about the artists that inspired them.  ...

Spotted on core77, these clever Ikea ads by Jung von Matt made me 1) remember how much I love poring over floor plans in the home section of the newspaper when I was younger and 2) want to go to Ikea immediately!  Pretty effective, I'd say.

Houston has a large Hispanic population, and taco trucks abound.  This series of prints by Sean Finocchio captures the quirkiness of the taco truck and would be great either alone or grouped together on a wall.  They're created from digital photos of actual taco trucks in the LA area and are ...

I love these typographic city posters from Scarlet Beautiful.  At the moment, they've got New York, Paris and London for sale, and it looks like Rome and Washington DC have been available in the past.   This of course reminded me of the also fantastic Ork city posters.  They offer a ...

I absolutely adore this series of space travel posters from artist and illustrator Steve Thomas.  Vintage design and outer space?  I want all of them to hang on my wall immediately!  Prints, as well as a calendar, are available on his Zazzle site.    

For the third year in a row, I'm gracing my desk at the office with this standing desk calendar from Little Bird Press.  In 2007 and 2008, the calendar occupied 2/3 of the page.  I scanned last year's version before I tossed it (sad, but I must keep ahead of ...