Between 1966 and 1967, San Francisco rock poster artist Wes Wilson designed posters and handbills for the first Trips Festival, the last show by The Beatles, and dozens of concerts at the Avalon Ballroom and Fillmore Auditorium featuring everyone from The Association to Frank Zappa. Along the way, he defined the psychedelic poster, in which blocks of letters were used to create shapes, which seemed to bend and vibrate in place.

I recently had an experience that brought home the crowdsourcing nightmare currently infecting the design world. For those unfamiliar with this plague, crowdsourcing design is where you go to a site advertising logos or web sites for ridiculously low prices by setting up a “bidding” or “contest” situation.

This is Part 1 of a four-part tutorial series on editing WordPress themes using Adobe Dreamweaver CS5.

FibraMent baking stones

Looking for a great way to have a hearth-oven? You’ve found it! The HearthKit from Hearth Kitchen is an oven insert that turns your oven into a hearth oven. The HearthKit can help you make artesian breads, roast turkey, brick-oven pizzas, tasty casseroles.

Photos of the Deutscher Wachtelhund

The Society for Culinary Arts and Letters is thrilled to be able to offer this Q&A with the team behind Modernist Cuisine: The Art & Science of Cooking. This ground-breaking multivolume work has spawned two discussion topics, one focusing on the book and one devoted to cooking with the book.

The dot systems shows television screens, which were photographed moment in the power off. The trigger is the power switch on the TV mode is selected. The camera captures the image in the moment when it breaks down. The television picture is no longer visible – instead, a structure of light, which in a fraction of a second in the picture tube disappears and collapses.

Type explorations for updated Moulin Rouge logo.

Black metal greeting cards

Screen-shots from 1974's Phase IV, directed by the great Saul Bass, more commonly known as the revolutionary creator of many classic title sequences for Hitchcock, Preminger, etc. as well contributing significantly to the field of corporate iconography, branding and "visual identities". Less well-known is this amazing film, one of the great science-fiction films from the otherwise fallow early 70s.

These, for your delectation, are scans and photos of various pages from the astoundingly age-inappropriate Dune activity book series, published in 1984 to promote David Lynch’s movie adaptation of the classic Frank Herbert novel, produced by Universal Studios.

Keith Ferrazzi on social anxiety.

Keith Ferrazzi on public speaking.

An investigation by Production Manager Hans Schmoller into the origins and usage of Penguin devices.