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The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog are doing some fresh things with typography. Check out their superfresh fonts Heldentica, Tomatica and Gelvetica (all available as free downloads from the site).

Cuprocking is a collaborative project between Mooks and Andy Uprock, showcasing cuprocking, an innovative form of (non-destructive) street art.

Art Futura is a Spanish art festival exploring new media, interactive design, video games and digital animation. Unfortunately it’s over for this year, however you can still check out some of the amazing work displayed.

Joshua Callaghan has been beautifying utility boxes around Los Angeles.  (via PSFK)

The Small Stakes is a small design studio set up by Jason Munn which excels at producing band posters. The posters all exhibit an understated lo-fi feel and have been created for artists such as Beck, The Magnetic Fields, Yo La Tengo and more.

0100101110101101.org is the home of digital rebels Eva and Franco Mattes. Creating compelling digital and physical art since 1998 these two seek to obtain ‘the largest visibility with minimal effort’. Their projects include internet collages, fake artists and a computer virus to name a few. I really enjoy their shock tactics and also the convergence / blurred reality between online and physical life.

Taiwa-Hensokuki is an installation by Yuko Mohri, where two IBM notebooks ‘converse’ with each other with speech synthesis and speech recognition software. As they continue in this process the original message becomes transformed and distorted (perhaps in the same way as in a game of Chinese whispers).

Pawn Shop was a brilliant idea for an art store, bringing art by some very high profile artists down to street level in Chinatown, NYC. It also challenged the very nature of the gallery space as unsuspecting patrons could walk in to view the goods, instead finding art. Unfortunately it seems that they have now filed for bankruptcy.

Karsten Schmidt’s website Toxi has some really great experiments in generative/computational form.

The Aquarium Gallery in London is currently hosting the Splatter Exhibition featuring all your favourite cartoon characters slicing and dicing each other up. Think Loony Tunes meets Itchy & Scratchy. (via Slash Film)