I just love this concept from Evil Mad Scientist: make your own drinks coasters based on various characters in a range of fonts.

You can read up on the whole process, but basically the idea is to blow up fonts to large point sizes, print and then cut them out of some kind of material (MDF, [...]

If you work with fonts a lot you’ll know what a hassle it can be to find just the right one.
Enter Fontplore, an interactive application built on a widget-aware table that can be used to search font databases quickly and intuitively.

We’ve seen the origami desk lamp and Starcraft origami, now here’s something for your computer desktop.
Here we have origami-styled logos for Firefox, Twitter, Apple, Digg, Basecamp, Flickr, GMail, IE (broken, love it), iTunes, Mint, RSS, Opera and Skype, designed by Paddy Donnelly.
They can be downloaded in a variety of formats. Jump on to see them [...]