• Armani Exchange just refreshed their logo and I like the new version much more. What do you think?
• Find out what to do when a client doesn’t pay in a timely manner.
• The Bygone Bureau outlines its picks for the best new blogs of 2009.
• An amazing Flickr set of vintage storefront photos will instantly take you back in time (via jess gibson).
• The best books for freelance graphic designers.
• Many restaurants have marketing tricks built into their menus that encourage you to spend more. Author William Poundstone explains the game.
• My friend Voltaire opens up and candidly shares the perils celebrities can face when met with stalkers.
• Once, Michael Jackson visited a record store dressed as an arab sheikh and spent hours talking with the staff and buying loads of music, amongst other things (via draplin).
• The top 10 stories you missed in 2009.
• How to make $30,000.00 a year from blogging.
• If 2009 has felt like a roller coaster, Gala Darling’s A Letter will make you feel 1,000 times better.
• Sad but true: After 55 years of publication, I.D. Magazine is folding.
