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Business Week's Next blog just posted a great shout out to Stefan Bucher's Daily Monster project and soon-to-be relased book 100 Days of Monsters.

What I really love about this story is the network and community that formed around the monsters. People felt personally attached to these little creatures, and bothered to write a backstory for them. Stefan's creativity spawned the same from others—imagination begat imagination. That's fantastic.

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If you're looking for contemporary fonts with strong roots in classic typography, check out the Belgium-based OurType.

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I just booked my flight to Austin and registered for the South by Southwest Interactive Conference this March. I had an amazing time last year and this year is shaping up to be just as interesting. Confirmed sessions in the design track include:

A General Theory of Creative Relativity (Jim Coudal)
Blood, Sweat, and Fear: Great Design Hurts (Michael Lopp)
Data as Art: Musical, Visual Web APIs (Peter Kirn)
Design Control in a Digital World: Getting It and Losing It (Khoi Vinh)
Design Eye 2008 (Keith Robinson)
Design is in the Details (Naz Hamid)
Designing for Freedom (Gina Bianchini)
Does Tomorrow's World Need Designers? (Tim Leberecht)
Everyone's A Design Critic (Jason Santa Maria)
From Frustration to Elation: Getting Emotional by Design (Dan Rubin)
Logos: Why They’re Irrelevant and Can Actually Hurt Your Business (Bryan Zmijewski)
Magic and Mental Models: Using Illusion to Simplify Designs (Jared M. Spool)
Make It So: Learning From SciFi Interfaces (Nathan Shedroff)
Meet The Architects (Molly Wright Steenson)
Social Design Strategies (Emily Chang)
Tools for Enchantment: 20 Ways to Woo Users (Kathy Sierra)
Wireframing in a Web 2.0 World (Richard Rutter)

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Or, more appropriately, this could be titled: “Why We Wish We Had a Jetpack (And All The Time In The World).” Here are some events  to mark on your calendar during the month of February:

February 1: I.D. Student Design Review call-for-entries deadline

Starting February 2: “Documentary Fortnight Expanded: MoMA’s Annual Festival of Nonfiction Film” at MoMA in New York City

February 3: New York Times art critic Holland Cotter lectures at The New School in New York City

Starting February 5: “Jasper Johns: Gray” exhibit examines the artist’s use of the color gray at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City

February 6-8: New Business Summit intended specifically for creatives in Nashville

Starting February 8: “Emergency Room” exhibit at MoMA in New York City that provides a forum for local artists to showcase their thoughts on current affairs

February 8-10: Interaction 08 conference for interactive designers of all types in Savannah, GA

Starting February 11: “Not For Sale” exhibit at MoMA in New York City showcases unavailable works by the art market’s most sought-after talents

February 11-13: Destination Design Management conference in San Francisco with sessions covering such topics as how to keep your passion for design alive, proving design’s ROI and the state of the design industry in 2008

February 15: Milton Glaser will be the keynote speaker at SVA-CUNY’s symposium on modern propaganda in “Where the Truth Lies” (New York City)

Starting February 17: “Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love” exhibit surveys the artist's cut-paper silhouette work that depicts historical narratives at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis
 
February 20: “Thinking Inside the Box—How Design Innovation Comes From Within," presented by InSource, the organization for in-house creatives, takes place in Madison, NJ

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