If you’re curious about how websites work, you’ve ever selected ‘view source’ to see the guts of the HTML, or you have wondered about the ominous ‘back-end’, then wonder no longer. Back of a webpage reveals the inner workings of your favourite websites and gives new meaning to pressing the browser’s ‘back’ button.

The photographic paper detail on the Flickr one is genius. Send you own submissions to backofawebpage@gmail.com Found via davidthedesigner – Made me smile too…

I’m currently finishing an identity for a law firm, so this website struck a chord.

Typography for Lawyers is a 13 primer by Matthew Butterick, a frustrated lawyer with a design background, in an attempt to show his colleagues the true typographic path. During my current project, I have indeed learned that typography is particularly important for lawyers, and also particularly hard to get right across a large business. Lawyers and designers are kind of the opposite sorts of people.

I found this via The Disciples of Design who reckon it might even be a good student resource…

…I haven’t got the guts to send it to my client though, the 200 pages of guidelines I’ve written will have to do…

Funny how life works, after I posted Paul Rand’s business card I found this similarly minimal letterhead belonging to another genius.

Letterheady is a blog of old letterhead examples, so if you’ve ever wondered what Adolf Hitler’s letterhead looked like, wonder no more:

…let’s hope he was writing with good news. In the interests of fairness here’s Winston Churchill’s:

…and to complete the Paul Rand circle of logic, here’s an old IBM one:

…even if I do prefer Clive Sinclair’s:

An interesting site and the collection is growing. Remember, you spell stationery with an e when you mean envelopes.

Now this is nice. Film The Blanks posts abstractions of movie posters, some obvious, some less so, and invites visitors to guess the title.

The graphics are lovely and the game is a nice idea. I can’t help posting some of my favourites here, but there are loads more on the site and in the Flickr set.

You can also buy the blanks, there are posters and T-shirts. Couldn’t find out who was behind it, they prefer to remain blank…

This looks like an oldie (it’s dated 2003) but I’ve only just found it. Turn your site (or anyone else’s for that matter) into a kaleidoscope by entering the URL and sitting back to watch all the JPG images from that page mashed up for your viewing pleasure.

Here are some from this very site…

From Project Euh, there’s other nonsense on there too…

Everyone loves a psychotic supercomputer, especially when it comes with some lovely graphic design. The HAL project has opened stage 2, a beautiful letterbox website devoted to 2001′s HAL 9000 showcasing the graphic displays, typography and even providing sound clips of the killing machine’s soothing tones.

The big news is the screensaver, now you too can have HAL 9000 on your desktop or laptop. Is your webcam reading your lips? You’ll never feel safe again…

Thanks to Martin for the link, you have made me a very happy man.