If  you’re planning a wedding and arbitrarily picking out ugly colours for your bridesmaids’ dresses is too inaccurate and random for you, fret not. Pantone has released a wedding colour guide (specifically for 2010) to help you through this process. These aren’t your normal colours either. These are wedding colours so you know you’re on the right track. Don’t you dare try using them for a birthday or engagement party. If your wedding is in 2011 beware, you’ll be instantly dated a fashion dinosaur.

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Marion Bataille has produced a pretty fantastic looking book called ABC3D. Its a three dimensional pop-up book mixing papercraft, typography, graphic design, and fun. There is a preview video up of her own hand made proof of the book in action and the book itself is already available for ‘preorder’ though is out allegedly in October of 2008 from Roaring Book Press.

Evidently in 1947 Life magazine did this bit where they asked the celebrity cartoonists of the day to draw their famous creations while blindfolded. It is notable how many of them seem to have turned out like some kind of offset printing misalignment. What fun!

We all get bored at work. Often we find ourselves in a boring meeting tuning out and doodling on whatever scraps of paper we find in front of us. The American President is no different. A series of such doodles have been collected for your enlightenment. We only hope that such doodling isn’t at the expense of policy.

The journopimps over at the New York Times apparently dumb down their headlines for Google. This is pretty interesting as it may point the way towards a new form of writing more kin to madlibs than to formal linguistic composition. One day we could see news articles which dynamically adapt to colloquial or even personal language variances. You could read an article and find comfort in the fact that you know all the words and that there is nothing over two syllables included. You may opt for a lexicon expanding form of news delivery. The same articles could adapt to how individuals or groups want to read them.