I agree with Kirsty and Ben. This is brilliant and perfectly captures the tipping point of enthusiastic marketers inserting ‘social media’ into every available brand orifice. When it works it’s great, but the rest of the time it’s a lazy copout.

Soon to be joined by the pointless iPhone app – it doesn’t matter what it does so long as we get our logo on your home screen.

Anyway, here’s a sausages idea from before the internet…

…Walls liked it.

As regular readers to this blog might remember, I do like the patterns on public transport seats, specifically those on the tube. I even tried to do some design with them once and had my fascination outed by Design Week.

Anyway, Transport for London have this quirky tube campaign running at the moment, which invites you to guess whether the statements lovingly recreated from vintage patterns are true or false:

If you can’t bear not knowing the answers, check out the TfL site, where a little story sheds light on each one.

Also, feel free to join my neglected Flickr group to collect new patterns. And if you’ve taken a picture of a seat pattern, it probably qualifies for this group too…

Wow, this is lovely. Panasonic Note headphones packaged by Scholz & Friends.

Wish I’d thought of that…

…found via 2modern

The BBC are randomly asking today Do typefaces really matter?

It all stems from James Cameron’s controversial use of Papyrus in Avatar, before Bruno Maag dives in and aims a punch at Helvetica.

Still, I guess we should be glad Comic Sans didn’t turn up.

Incidentally, the article is worth checking out if you’re one of those people who is still unclear as to the difference between a font and a typeface…

They’ve been redeveloping Blackfriars station forever now. Hopefully the kerning is on their to-do list.

Here’s something for your Friday. From the people that brought you Billie Tweets, comes Tweet Bricks the game where you can play Tetris with your Twitter data (or someone else’s). Click the pictures to have a go.

It could look a little more beautiful, but it’s a great idea. Here’s what it looks like with my tweets…

…don’t worry, I’m not actually that bad at Tetris, beautifully clear playfields don’t make great screenshots you see.

From 9 Astronauts, who ironically, don’t seem to actually tweet themselves…