Time to kick back, and actually laugh out loud. It's lunch time on a Friday, and what better way to enjoy the moment than by sending just the littlest bit of your sandwich out your left nostril. Try it, I did... it's fun. Oh, here's your fuel for launch. The Sun-Sentinel has put up a "vote for worst album cover of all time" feature, and well... let's just say, picking one's least favorite is not an easy task. Enjoy, and don't say I didn't warn you!

Adobe unveiled a new web application this week, built on Flex and Flash, called Photoshop Express. This new web based tool is poised to potentially trump other online photo editing resources like Picnik, Fotoflexer, by combining sophisticated image retouching features (including crop and rotate, healing, exposure, red-eye removal, saturation, white balance, sharpen, soft focus, and effects like pop color, hue, black and white, tint, sketch, distort and more) with the community aspect of really slick gallery, sharing and free hosting functionality. And of course, this is Adobe's engine for doing these image related tasks, so we're talking top-dog quality. The site does not purport to be a replacement for Photoshop or Photoshop Elements. It's not full-featured image "editing" as it were. You can't create anything from scratch like shapes, lines or text. It's a photo retouching and finishing toolset - a photo processing application. Adobe does indeed go one step further - maybe more. Photoshop Express is also a website where users can host their galleries (2GB of storage during the beta for free - reports that this will be the standard into official release as well as potentially offering a premium version of the service), and share with your community. Adobe's cool CS3 icon set (you know, the icons Adobe has pastiched from the periodic table of the elements) is now complemented by a Photoshop-blue square with Px on it. Px... pics... get it? Very cool.

Brilliant. Inspirational. Banal. An asshole. All of these words have been used at one time or another to describe the work of Austrian-born Stefan Sagmeister. Dubbed one of today's most important graphic designers,

It was one of the biggest upsets in sports history. It was the stuff of legend; seconds left on the clock, the "Hail Mary"-ish throw, the older brother watching from the press booth erupting into a moment of proud candid ebullience. And when it was over, and the Giants had reigned victorious against the undefeated Pats, they were rewarded with one hell of an ugly trophy: The unofficially titled "Vince Lombardi" Trophy.

Legend Paula Scher and Pentagram have unveiled their new identity system for NYCB, the country's preeminent ballet company, and perhaps the world's. Whether it is good or bad may not be the point; it's design speaks much more to the pragmatism of design than the need to create something beautiful and personal.

Important News Alert: A Graphic Designer Did Not Bring Down the Third Reich. That's right. You heard me. False alarm.

After Steve Jobs closed shop for the evening last night at MacWorld, Apple stock prices plummeted. Almost 10 points in a day. Some speculate it might be attributed to the new Macbook Air, a cutting edge, sexy little number that might be a little too ahead of it's time.

I'm deep into the final remaining pages of The Omnivore's Dilemma, and I can't begin to articulate what an incredible and life-changing book it's been. Michael Pollan has offered America a meditation on all things food, with all of its complexities and potentials. I dare anyone to read it and not change their diet.

In the last few months, three significant new logos have shook the design community with their radical (though remarkably similar) solutions. Everyone's much reviled NYC and London 2012 campaigns from Wolff Olins, the agency that designers love to hate, and the much lauded new logo for Sak's Fifth Avenue from Michael Beirut, the designer to which all designers kowtow. But if you ask moi, only one of them is valid as a logo.

I had the pleasure recently of seeing a few possible Oscar contenders (they've already received Golden Globe nods) on the big screen: Sweeney Todd, Juno, and There Will by Blood. And while they were all enjoyable and well-crafted, the one thing that stuck out for me as a comparison were their graphic choices regarding their title sequences; they were all diametrically opposed to one another.