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…

I sometimes wish there was more choice than the ubiquitous ‘like’ button on Facebook. At the time of writing, 398,844 people ‘like’ Marmite on Facebook. That sort of ambivalence shouldn’t be allowed. I thought it was a LOVE / HATE thing?

Idea for Marmite brand owners: start a campaign for Love and Hate buttons on Facebook.

I saw this outside a pub at the weekend. I don’t think it was intended to be taken literally.

I like this. It’s a business card for Japanese model kit manufacturer Tamiya by Creative Juice in Bangkok.

I think I’ve seen this idea a few times over the years, but not done as well as this, and it’s always been some graphic designer shoe-horning the idea into a project willy-nilly. This is the real deal, the perfect idea for the client. It’s won a gold Cannes Lion as well no less.

You can make things with it too:

I used to like making model kits like this when I was younger. In hindsight, the amazingly detailed exploded diagrams of the model construction process were one of the things which awakened my graphic design gene and set me on my chosen career path. They were possibly also responsible for my lack of a girlfriend for some considerable time…

…anyway, don’t worry about me – I’m married now so it all worked out fine.

The exploded digram thingy is also what’s behind these ads by the same company:

So, it wasn’t just me after all.

I love this new 8-bit map of London by Brett Camper, showing what happens when the vintage graphical power of the NES meets the cutting edge GPS data of Google maps. You can zoom in and out and search for your house, although obviously it doesn’t really have the resolution of the Google original, so you’re not going to be able to see your car parked outside or wave to your Mum. (or see your house.)

He’s also done New York…