Suvi Ainoa is a lifestyle brand for big and little people’s fashion and daily life. It is a simple way to live, something that will bring joy to your life. Useful, minimal and still beautiful. (Identity, packaging and website by Madomat!)

Have you ever come across such a nice solution that you want to invent a problem for it? Have a look at Big Cartel and you will start concocting what to sell online. Once you’ve invented something, let us know and we’ll customise your shopfront!

Typefoundry explores the history of type through single examples. It has been going for a few years now, but it’s only updated every few months, so each new post has become something of an event. It’s unashamedly academic too, which is actually somehow refreshing.

We aren’t cursing for April Fool’s Day: it’s actually What the Font, a designer’s best friend. Upload an image of a word set in a font you would like to find and What the Font will do its best to figure it out for you. Magic. (Beware: this will not instantly make you into a designer!)

Just to celebrate the close of the winter Olympics: this amusing and informative video on Olympic pictograms (all those little figures performing various sports) is well worth 4 minutes and 2 seconds of your time. By Steven Heller on the New York Times website.

Here’s a treasure trove of classic book covers from the 70s and 80s. The designer who has posted the Flickr album has helpfully included most of the names of the fonts used. Listen carefully and you can just hear the Bee Gees on an 8-track in the background…

We love Ace Jet 170. As the strapline says, it’s a blog dedicated to ‘Found type, print and stuff’ – books, photos and eye-catching objects found anywhere from junk shops to littering the pavement. If you like interesting stuff – and we all do at heart – then here’s a great place to while away a happy few minutes.

Lovely as a Tree is one of our favourite sites, ever. It is a fantastic resource for environmentally aware graphic design, with the perfect tone of voice: fresh, informative and not at all cutesy. We only wish that we’d done it. Oooh — the envy!