This spring, Victionary returns with Printwork, a softcover book that allows 50-plus designers to showcase their printing techniques across 248 pages. The newest edition of our favorite look book seeks to promote those designers who prefer to put a unique mark on their own work, instead of using the tired printing options most often available. While the publication itself does not appear to integrate revolutionary production values, it does offer plenty of items that may spark inspiration — such as or picking up the phone and hiring one of these artists for your own project.

CNN news crawl, meet your younger, colorful, more animated brother. If you’ve ever said to yourself, “I hate reading the news. But if it were color coded by topic and then put into a swirling vortex of Flash animation, then maybe I’d know what the hell was going on in Myanmar. Behold, the Spectra newsreader from MSNBC, a visually stylized way for daily news junkies to manipulate their content. Select your top stories and the feed starts aggregating from MSNBC’s site. Click on a topic and it flips it open in a Today Show meets Minority Report fashion. Save your favorite stories, add channels, and customize your experience. We think it’s hot and all, but is this new and intuitive, or just simply some browser-candy?

Royal Remarkable (aka Joshua Gajownik) and Monsieur T are at it again. The graphic designer is having another go at teaming up with the Portland-based streetwear label, providing those in search of sweet tees with yet another option for showing off their arms, while keeping their torsos covered. The Still Digging Mint shirt features a cross-section of five different distinct patterns set on a minty fresh hued combed cotton shirt. We pity the fool who doesn’t get his hands on one of these.

The combination of glitter, resin and Japanese pop iconography are the three characteristics that put Japanese artist Atsuo in his own realm. There isn’t a whole lot of info on the guy, and even the Sao Paulo gallery that supports him, Choque Cultural, admits they don’t know much about the elusive artist. But it’s clear Atsuo doesn’t work in a vacuum, because his work refers to the world around him. It received a lot of play in a recent group show at the street art venue, an exhibit that showcases Japanese pop art renditions from native artists. Whether or not you can find him, at the very least Atsuo seems to be destined for transatlantic greatness.

After enjoying a successful month-plus long run in the hills of L.A., The Storefront for Art and Architecture recently folded up the tents to its Pop-Up Store so they could sprout in another city. This time they’re taking the show across the pond to London as part of the London Festival of Architecture 2008. Their temporary display is opening June 20th and running through July 27th on Exhibition Road and will feature The BIG CPH Experiment, a series of design projects and building models created by the Copenhagen-based architecture firm BIG/Bjarke Ingels Groupe. Known for infusing living essentials such as leisure time, working, and shopping in their work, CPH’s first showing at the Storefront’s New York base was in October 2007, highlighting the housing needs for those of differing attitudes and economical backgrounds. At its center is an impressive rendering of LEGO towers, constructed from 250,000 of the plastic blocks. We’re sure you’ve made some pretty sweet things out of LEGOs in your day, but we’re almost positive these towers dwarf the castle you constructed when you were ten.

The magic of e-mail (aside from instant delivery) is that all of your unwanted spam can be disposed of with the click of a button. If only there was a button to erase the heaps of unwanted paper junk mail that arrives at your front door every day. Wait. Is there one? The geniuses behind Earth Class Mail have come up with a new system for virtualizing your snail mail, so you have a say on whether or not those pesky catalogs wind up wasting space in your house. Their service asks users to forward their mail to one of 18 P.O. boxes, where their envelopes are scanned and posted on a secure website and allows the user to decide whether or not a certain letter is trash or treasure. From there, users can also decide whether they’d prefer to recycle, shred, ship, or open and scan the contents so they can be read online. Not only is Earth Class Mail a seemingly simple solution for eliminating unwanted letters, but it’s also an eco-friendly way to figure out what to do with that inevitable mess of mail.

You probably know who Hedi Slimane is — well, at least you know his work with fashion house Christian Dior. Hedi was the creative force behind men's Dior Homme collection from 2000 to 2007. Quitting last year to retain his creative freedom meant, among other things, starting a photoblog. If you like beautiful people, amazingly high-end fashion, Star Wars characters, wallpaper, drugged-out musicians and fireworks as much as we do then the appeal will be obvious. The blog doesn't have a RSS feed, which is a bit annoying, but it is a nice source of inspiring images from the man that defined the look of men's fashion for so many years.