You can slip out the back Jack or you can put up five 10 x 23 foot billboards in your neighborhood. Adios LA is a visual goodbye to the city Jon Jackson has called home for years as the artist heads east making New York his new home. Not wanting to string LA along, he has decided to firmly break it off through a graphic billboard series posted on the famous streets of his first love. Most take Mr. Simon’s advice when leaving town, but if you want a city with benefits you better do more than make a new plan Stan.

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This Halloween season, bring an old computer back from the dead. Here’s all you need to turn that dusty old Mac Classic into a glowing, Halloween treat. Besides a working computer and a little technical know-how (very little), all you need is three cans of spray paint and a bit of epoxy. And here’s the best part…no slimy guts to clean out!

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From Nina Paley, creator of Sita Sings the Blues.

Guilty on all charges.

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Ratatat – Drugs from More Soon on Vimeo.

From Today and Tomorrow:

Do you know stock imagery and stock footage? Yes? Then you might recognize some faces in the music video for Drugs by Ratatat. Carl Burgess searched the Getty Images archives and turned the footage into this amazing video. You’ll smile watching this one! Produced by Blink Art & Colonel Blimp.

The Design Police have given us all a way to bring bad design to justice with the Visual Enforcement Kit. This downloadable sticker kit lets those responsible for bad design know they have been busted. The kit comes with all of the essentials including “Microsoft Word is not a design tool” and “Clichéd type effect”.

“First it was ‘good design.’ Then it was ‘crap from the 50s.’ Then it was ‘camp’ embraced by smirking hipsters. Now, it’s just ‘good design’ again! The narrator of this 1958 GM buy-design-or-be-a-pinko agitprop conflates patriotism with gnarly tailfins,and the score could scare crows out of a cornfield, but watch it for the flat-out Googie goodness of the rocket car, the see-through boat and the Sandra Dee clone couture. I love this stuff far too much.”

Designed by Michel Penneman and Oliver Hannaert, The PANTONE HOTEL in Brussels showcases the color of emotion with a distinctive hue on each guest floor. From vivid to subdued, for business or leisure, the unique boutique hotel can suit your savvy palette and colorful imagination. The guest rooms also feature unique photography by esteemed Belgian photographer Victor Levy.

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Personally, I would be more excited about this if Pantone books were still an integral part of my professional life. I miss the act of ripping out chips and intently comparing hues for the perfect combination, taping down the final choices and relegating the rest back into a #10 envelope containing a rainbow of discarded chips (I loathed the people who would attempt to reattach them back into the books with ‘invisible’ tape). I miss being able to talk to other designers in PMS numbers (We all knew that 109 was ‘lemony’, 116 was a good bright yellow, 123 was a hearty hue that allowed reversed type and that 130 was the ‘go to’ ochre.