Look at these beautiful linocuts done by artist and illustrator, Peter Nevins. This series of three were done in support of the latest album by Anais Mitchell and Jefferson Hammer, Child Ballads. There is such a phenomenal amount of detail in these prints, and you know it took a fair amount of time to work through each of these. Each of the prints is also available through Nevins' Big Cartel shop.

Foursquare check-ins show the pulse of New York City and Tokyo from Foursquare on Vimeo.

Popular check-in app, Foursquare, recently took all the check-ins over the course of a year in New York and Tokyo and plotted the data in a low grade heat map. Each dot represents a single check-in, while the straight lines link sequential check-ins. They put this together to demonstrate the power of check-in data. It's pretty amazing stuff.

This is just such an unbelievably simple and great idea. Mailbooks for Good is a group that has designed a book jacket that can be flipped inside out to become a pre-paid, pre-addressed package. The idea is that once a book has been read, instead of it sitting on a shelf collecting dust, it could be shipped to a non-prof organization and then re-distributed to the homeless. The group teamed up with Random House Australia and The Footpath Library to make this process come alive, and they have made this available for free to non-profits world wide.

The spot and packaging design was produced by BMF, and you can see a slightly longer credit list after the jump.