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Tolga Girgin's letters appear to jump, blow, and fly off the page in their ongoing series of cleverly shaded and illustrated, hand lettered calligraphy.

We monkeys are re-designing our site and using Drupal 8 for the first time! We've been watching the progress and are excited to test it out. Dave will be writing about the technical side; documenting his challenges and successes. He's been working with Drupal since 2007 and version 4.7.

This GIF of the word happy being drawn by Seb Lester in perfect to wish you a belated Valentine's Day and Happy Lunar New Year!

Roberta Flack's "The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face" is the inspiration this Seb Lester poster. He combines elegant calligraphy with swirls and stars in beautiful homage to this classic love song. Personally, I love the black and gold version, but the white poster would be a perfect traditional wedding gift. I do have two brothers and a sister that are unhitched.

Joey Bearbower is a talented letterer who combines positive messages with creative imagery. I encourage you to follow his Instagram account where he uploads in process shots of his work.

As a book lover and a designer, Penguin Books is one of those publishers who is at the top of the game. This cover for The Fox and the Star is a prime example of why. Creator Carole Bickford-Smith created this fable "inspired by William Blake's Eternity and the graphic work of William Morris." 

Do Something. That simple message really resonates with me as a creator. Trent Kokich has taken a longtime philosophy of mine and reduced it to two words. 

This week, Panda becomes part of Google's core ranking algorithm. Panda came out in 2011 as a way to lower the ranking of sites with low content and high amounts of advertisements with the goal of reducing spammy results. It has been changed and updated many times over the last few years.

Letter Collections is a series of beautifully lettered postcards that you can send to your friends & family! Designer Martina Flor is the brains and talent behind this clever project that started in the analog world and continues to live on in the digital world.

Check out this massive collection of midcentury matchbooks shared by redditor buzzsaw_and_dynamo who also aptly dubbed it mega. Specifically the "mega album of pictures of my dad's matchbook collection". He has taken beautiful photographs and nicely arranged the different artwork on the inside and outisde of each cover into a single image. Below is just a sample of what you're in for. Be warned! There are 136 images in the set.