Glass-Bottom Boat

Lighter than a wood or aluminum canoe, tough as bullet-proof glass and entirely transparent on the bottom, these designs provide a completely new way to experience water life around you.

It gets better: the kayak equivalent to the transparent canoe is a carbon kevlar frame design that has a military-grade transparent urethane skin - and it folds up small enough to carry with you in a backpack. Setting it up to be water-worthy takes about a half an hour but the lightweight portability means you can bring it virtually anywhere.

via Geekologie

Pretty interesting info graphic of 100 million calls to NYC's 311 line.

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/11/ff_311_new_york/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

Fontsache!

As someone who has just gotten into the whole moustache craze, and who loves a good font joke, I found this great!

USB Daisy Chain

As Geekologie says: "It's about time!" They're only concept now, but hopefully they'll be developed! Designed by Gonglue Jiang, and winner of the IF Design Concept Award.

McCain's new brand identity

Can we discuss McCain's blatent pandering with his new bacon-logo? I briefly talk about it over here on Slog.

You may also enjoy what I wrote about political logos back in December '08.

What to include in your design contracts

An excellent article by designer and prolific Tweeter, Brian Hoff at Design Cubical.

6- Client / Designer Responsibilities

Knowing who and what each party is responsible for is important and must be stated up front; ie: printer collaboration, typographic errors, etc.

Also if the client provides you materials to work from and they’re lost or damaged it must be accounted and compensated for.

Another Nice Infographic

Did I mention I love infographics? This one from The Infrastructurist shows how people commute to work in several major cities. Sweet. Click the link for the entire diagram.