We all know Twitter, right? With so many people frequently telling the world what they’re up to, visualizing the things they’re saying becomes interesting. Take a look at twistori, which categorizes live data from Twitter based on six keywords: love, hate, think, believe, feel, and wish.

Obviously inspired by We Feel Fine, this site shows how fun it is to play around with huge amounts of data. It’s kind of interesting how easy it becomes to find relevancy, as long as you’ve got enough input.

In case you want to do some data filtering of your own, go take a look at Summize, the Twitter search engine used for this project.

I Believe in Advertising has an interesting item about two huge shoe replicas that were given to separate art studios for customization—the left shoe on the West Coast, the right shoe on the East Coast. Check out the video too.

The concept came from advertisement agency and design studio 180 Los Angeles.

I was browsing through the archives of my Flickr contacts today and found this amazing illustration by 100kr. It was made for Threadless, a site to which you can submit t-shirt designs. I don’t really know how Threadless works, so I’m not sure whether it was actually made into a real shirt, but I would buy this for sure.

Check out his other t-shirt designs, too.

Zach Johnsen is an illustrator from Portland who has turned some of his works into tangible objects. He explains:

I wanted to bring more of my wooden characters to life, but instead of placing them in a gallery, I wanted them in natural surroundings. Basically, I am trying to make a similar scene that I would on paper, but using photography. […]

Though he says he’s not quite done experimenting yet, the result is already quite impressive:

There’s an interesting article up on AIGA about a massive artwork called Gastrotypographicalassemblage, created by typography guru Lou Dorfsman. After it was apparently discarded from its original location, the CBS building, the Center for Design Study has been trying to restore it to its original form.

EDIT: the Center for Design Study has a Flickr account with more photos.

From insect54’s Flickr photostream:

This book, originally published in 1976, contains the full corporate identity manuals of thirteen companies.

This amazing, almost robotically concise cutout was done by iLK, a Paris-based graphic designer.

His paintings are worth checking out, too.

Dave from Grain Edit.com uploaded some photos from a very nice Dutch typography book from the early 1960s.

A digitized version of this font, Annonce, is also available.