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Mountain Dew today announced the launch of Green Label Art, a limited-edition series of aluminum bottles featuring designs created by a variety of artists. This series marks the first time a carbonated soft drink will be packaged in an aluminum bottle in the U.S.

From May to October, this limited series of 12 bottle designs will only be available at the special events listed on the Green Label Art site. In August, the site will have info about their availability in retailers across the country later in the year.

If you're a web designer you should definitley know about Design Meltdown, a great site that collects and arranges home pages by theme. It's an awesome place for visual inspiration. So I was super excited when I found out a site my husband designed for Pepto-Bismol got included in DM's Pink & Blue section. Way to go Ben!

Minneapolis-based Design Guys has an unexpected new indentity inspired by a paint-by-numbers picture of birds. The look carries through to their letterhead, which has a series of laser-cuts of a bird taking flight. The whole point is that their work is not typical—not what you'd expect. And who'd expect birds from a firm that used to have a retro-garage look?

I hadn't visited type designer Eduardo Recife's site in a couple of years, so I was thankful for the reminder from How About Orange. There are a bunch of great free fonts along with examples of each font in use.

As we've been wrapping up our August issue, which is all about the future of design, I've naturally had the FUTURE on my mind. So I was drawn to a story in today's Fast Company newsletter called "The Future is a Mixed Bag," all about the upsides and downsides of what's to come. It's certainly worth a read, plus the author looks like a young Bill Murray!