David Pearson began work at Penguin Books in 2002, and ever since he’s been making seemingly traditional designs that can be both unorthodox and unexpected, such as all-typographic book covers for Penguin Classics or the rainbow spectrum applied to the spines of Pocket Penguins. Here he discusses his love of printed ephemera, including Eastern European matchbox labels, which informs his work.

Minneapolis and Los Angeles transportation histories run parallel: both had extensive streetcar systems, now dismantled, and both are now working to rebuild that infrastructure. In a new interview, Metro LA creative director Michael Lejeune and Hennepin County planner Lisa Middag discuss transit, opportunity, and jettisoning, as Lejeune puts it, “that road rage that’s sucking up your soul.”

Aaron Draplin’s enthusiastic 76 minutes of tall tales are now online at the Walker Channel, and you can check it out here.

I was able to catch up with graphic designers Zak Klauck and David Yun to talk a little bit about WAX, a bi-annual print magazine with writer Aeriel Brown that explores the unique intersection of art, culture and surfing in and around the city…New York City to be specific. Growing up in Los Angeles and living in Laguna Beach for a fair bit of my life, skate and surf culture influenced the way…

• In addition to being surrealism’s mustachioed poster child, Salvador Dalí had his side gigs doing commercial work—like the iconic daisylogo for Chupa Chups, the popular Spanish lollipops, he made in 1969. • For the Brooklyn Museum’s Keith Haring show, opening Mar. 16, the late artist’s foundation has been scanning pages from his journal. Today we see the page from Haring’s birthday in ‘77, when he…

This year’s Videtect theme, sustainable transportation, elicited a variety of short video entries that explore, harpoon, criticize, and raise questions about the broad topic.

Check out our Insights 2012 trailer, which is an inside look at a printing press and how a poster is produced. Many thanks to (executive producers) Joe Avery and Laura Nelson and the fine people at Shapco for producing our poster and letting us film them in action. And, if you’re wondering, the track is courtesy of our own design director, Emmet Byrne, a.k.a. The Franchise.

Above: The Replacement’s first official photo shoot, Walker Art Center, 1981   Photos by Greg Helgeson I moved to Minneapolis in 1998. For serious reasons like, “Home of Hüsker Dü and Charles Spencer Anderson.” That was enough for me. And being new to a town, you lurk around thinking about all the shit you missed. All those Twin Cities bands I was into, hell, they were long gone and dead. And the mere…