It is difficult to separate 2021 from the previous year — Covid, social & political unrest, and the climate crisis bind them together in my memory.

Seatback Safety is home to a collection of dozens of seatback safety cards from airlines like Pan Am, United, Continental, and more.

Jon Foreman neatly arranges rocks into colorful sculptures. He also does similar sand, leaves, debris, and shells.

I love these colorfully chromed-out logos designed by Martin Naumann -- you can find dozens of them on his Instagram and

Oceanographic Magazine has announced the winners of their annual Ocean Photography Awards for 2021.

Drones have been around for awhile now, but I have yet to tire of the bird’s-eye images captured from above this remarkable planet of ours.

Nikon has announced the winners of the Small World Photomicrography Competition.

Adobe recently announced the winners of their 36 Days of Type contest.

The Type Directors Club has announced the winners of their two design competitions: TDC67 Communication Design and 24TDC Typeface Design.

Tomer Hanuka asked his third-year illustration students at SVA to "come up with a post-pandemic New Yorker magazine cover".

In 1773 Johann David Steingruber created a complete alphabet of mythical letter shaped buildings & their floorplans.

Many books were published this year and some of them had great covers.

The Royal Meteorological Society has announced the winners and runners-up in the 2020 Weather Photographer of the Year competition.

Last year, I shared the concept designs for Norway’s new passports by creative agency Neue.

Using an AI-based framework called Pixel2Style2Pixel, Nathan Shipley made some more photorealistic faces for Pixar characters.

Sascha Lobe’s team at Pentagram has designed a functional and stylish modular signage system.

In order to demonstrate the magnitude of the pandemic, James Beckwith made a time lapse map of each Covid-19 death.

The AIGA has announced the winners of its annual 50 Books / 50 Covers competition for books published in 2019.

I have written previously about cartographer Harold Fisk's wonderful meander maps of the Mississippi River produced for the Army Corps of Engineers.

One of Rembrandt van Rijn's most iconic paintings The Night Watch is currently undergoing restoration at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.