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Doves Type printing blocks were thrown in the Thames River almost 100 years ago and recently uncovered. There's a short video story over at BBC. I think it's really cool that they're digitizing it.

This poster is part of IBM's award winning Think campaign from 2012. I especially like the fat overlapping letters and colors.

Entrepreneur interviews Wences Casares, CEO of Xapo, about bitcoin and his personal journey from being a skeptic a few years ago to running a company providing secure bitcoin wallets. "I truly believe bitcoin is the best hope for the 5 billion people who don’t have bank accounts to take part in the global economy.” is a powerful statement about the future.

Peter Van Valkenburgh has a thought provoking opinion piece over at Wired that suggests Bitcoin technology may be the gateway to true neutrality on the internet. His idea is to have many more internet providers and a solution that will switch to the best provider at any time, even if that might be your neighbor's WIFI or the Starbucks across the road. The faster connection is more important than the provider – radical! Obviously this can't start tomorrow because most of us don't have multiple vendors in our area to choose from. I think we have two: Comcast and AT&T. We've tried both and neither are fast enough for our home office so the idea of a faster internet with better encryption is optimistic and exiting. 

Lolli and Pops Alderwood chalkart signage is old fashioned and the perfect look for this delicious looking candy store. Click through to the entire gallery to see more views of the store and more location shots.

I love Reddit and discovering this series of scans from The Ad-Man's Deskbook is one of the reasons why. There are nineteen total scans in the gallery and it's definitely worth clicking through to see the rest.

French Corpus Typographical is a collection featuring hundreds of examples spanning centuries of French typography. 

A Way To Go is an interactive, dreamy experience: control a flat character and make them walk, run and fly through an imaginary world.

A Graphic Odyssey Poster by Wim Crouwel is a modern tech-inspired poster from 2001. Available for sale from the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. 

Exciting news for Coinbase – the first US regulated Bitcoin exchange – as they get another first. The first company that the NYSE (New York Stock Exchange) has ever invested in since they were founded in 1817. Yes you read that right. For the first time in almost 200 years the NYSE has invested in a company. They are part of a $75 million round of funding for Coinbase. The Wall Street Journal reports: