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Nafie found this awesome cache of retro logos on flickr he wanted to share.

And another flickr set http://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_carl/sets/72157604144345854/

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MIT Media Lab has a new logo that has has three intersecting spotlights that can be organized in any of 40,000 shapes and 12 color combinations using a custom algorithm. That’s enough variations to supply each and every new card-carrying Media Lab user with his very own logo for a whopping 25 years. The spotlights tip a hat to the Media Lab’s rakish spirit of cross-pollination, with each spotlight symbolizing a single individual. “People come from many different backgrounds – they’re engineers, scientists, artists, designers – and have very different ways of thinking, seeing, and working,” The says. “At the lab these people cross paths, collaborate, and inspire each other, and that’s the magic of this place.” Designed by Brooklyn-based designers E Roon Kang and Richard The. Thanks for the link, Viv! 

Love Your Earth: Symbols to Cultivate Change

Thesis exhibition by Savio Alphonso. Notice how he combines two visual forms to create a new visual idea.

As designers we can facilitate change, improve the human condition, influence the culture we inhabit. think big. start small. move mountains.

Michael Bierut’s process of creating a new logo for the New World Symphony concert hall in Maimi.

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The current issue of GOOD explores Los Angeles. Good asked Geoff McFetridge to set the tone of their issue with an illustrated interpretation of the Cities theme. Good had Geoff McFetridge create a hand-drawn, fictional map of L.A., culled from the imaginations of Raymond Chandler, Mark Z. Danielewski, Joan Didion, Bret Easton Ellis, Thomas Pynchon, Walter Mosely, and more.

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San Fransisco’s interactive science museum, the Exploratorium, has tons of ideas for engaging visitors - this workshop explored light projections. What about using light and shadow imagery in your wild life exhibit?

Royksopp video directed by French motion graphics studio H5.

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Little Red Riding Hood retold through infographics

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SecondStory has a site rich with examples of interactive, infographics, maps, historical artifact display. They put it all together with thought and a graceful style. And most projects have a link to large images on flickr.

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Hunting for information? This site has a wealth of facts on wildlife species - heavy on ocean creatures but lots of other terra firma animals. Ripe for capturing text. 

melting polar bear concept piece

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Design an open book for your wild creature ? Five layers. Five different media. Five info bytes. Five varied messages. High five. Five chances to convince visitors that your species deserves to live. Grab the attention of the five viewers in five different ways. Five viewers who may be seeing a real lion for the first time. Five levels of information that will educate the viewer. Five illuminating facts that are designed to engage. Move the visitor from a passive viewer into an active user. Wow them when your species is not on view, hiding behind a bush or sleeping in it’s cave.

PSU alum Nicole has a thoughtful visual blog: www.bangback.com