Pantonism should probably have a secondary search function beyond colour… but it’s a rather lovely resource, especially if you’re like me and tend to remember things by colours (my books are arranged by the colour of their spine).

But hey, it’s not like it’s a random bunch of images, they happen to all be beautiful and worthy of adding to any presentation.

New to the T&H catalogue is Cyclepedia – A Tour of Iconic Bicycle Designs. A wonderful book of Michael Embacher’s incredible bicycle collection. his online archive is really great too. buy the book here.

Useful reference of “interesting” and “creative” things currently being memed around the internet.  The usual augmented reality, word-clouds, projections and interactive videos are paired with new examples, grouped into areas of Audio, Movies, Visual, Art, Physical, Light, Tech, Politics, Sport, Books, History, and of course straight up, old fashioned, Advertising.

nice collection of graphis annuals on flickr.

Oh my. Terry Richardson‘s directed and photographed the new Pirelli Calendar. Thank you High Snobiety for publishing all the pics.

Featuring Miranda Kerr, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Ana Beatriz Barros, Lily Cole, Daisy Lowe, Marloes Horst, Abbey Lee, Catherine McNeil, Eniko Mihalik, Georgina Stojiljkovic, and Gracie Carvalho. Biographies of all those involved are available at Pirelli.

Backstage videos here and here, and photos are here!

(By the way, critically speaking, my one comment is that the best Pirelli calendars have always had a theme running through them – whetehr that was artistic style or location or telling a story… Not that I’m bothered, but this one seems to be a little all over the place!)

Eye Magazine has a great article on PanAm’s advertising and design – albeit only one chapter, as found at the ‘Here Is Every. Four Decades of Contemporary Art’ exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Really modern approach to advertising, graphics and generating that sense of wonder that travel companies seem to forget in this day and age. Read more, but more importantly, see more here!

There’s another article the Eye Magazine archives about Ivan Chermayeff, the designer of these posters, here

20 years since the wall came down – nice photoessay from the Boston Globe

- their photoblog “The Big Picture” is well worth subscribing to (we mentioned it before, twice)

FIXED is the first book to document global fixed-gear culture. It joins the dots between the bike’s design, its racing heritage and the customization that marks its appearance on our city streets. It meets the track stars, tricksters, messengers, hill bombers and polo players the world over, linking them to the artists, designers and framebuilders whom the bike has inspired.

It tells the story of why these bikes are special through interview, image and archive – exploring the form, function, style and culture at the heart of the obsession.

Long used in the velodrome, they were adopted by New York cycle messengers in the 1970s, and are now seen on city streets worldwide. A global fixed-gear culture has come into being.

I’m proud to say it’s now available to buy from all good bookstores, and available from amazon here of course!

There’s a blog on the FIXED site which contains a few more of my bike-related bloggingss