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To “celebrate” last night’s surprise Toronto Transit strike, let’s all download this rider-modified TTC subway routemap. Here’s the scoop, from the TTC Subway Rider Efficiency Guide:

On February 22, 2006, John Martz created a hilarious TTC (Toronto Transit Commission) Subway Map with each station’s name as an anagram. The map, inspired by a similar anagram map of London’s Tube, was an instant hit among Toronto’s online community. Within a few days though, a TTC lawyer sent a cease and desist letter to John citing intellectual property laws and threatening legal action if he didn’t pull it from his website.

In the years that have followed, I’ve noticed this thing popping up all over the place (including the original author’s site). It looks as though the TTC has cooled its jets (literally and figuratively), and it also looks like the original London anagram-map has inspired many others…

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The Amazing Shape is a simple idea, well executed: draw one picture a day and post it, using a T-Shirt as the backdrop. This one doesn’t count. (via FormFiftyFive.com)

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I just downloaded the 5-page Design Police kit. I can’t wait to run this through a colour laser printer with sticker-paper. These are awesome for any Creative Director. Or use them on your next piece of junk mail. Or better yet, use them when you’re on public transit reading a crappy free paper and leave your typographical wisdom for the next commuter. I can’t tell you HOW many times I wish I’d had a USE A LIGATURE sticker.

(via Matt at Drawn!)

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I’ve blogged about Nicholas Felton before, but he continues to outdo himself. He has recently redesigned his website, and released The 2007 Feltron Annual Report which meticulously details all aspects of his personal and professional life. I’m not sure how he has any time to interact with people, what with the furious note-taking he must undertake to capture where he has been, what he has listened to, what he has seen, what type of food he is eating, etc. Here are a few samples:I love the typography, the detail, the statistics, the idea. And I love the ingenuity of offering a print edition, which means I can support the Nicholas’ work and have something beautiful and strange for the coffee table. Buy it here. 

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