I have to admit a slight bias with this one due to the fact that he was my college professor, but Dirk Fowler’s simplicity and wit continues to amaze and inspire me. His knack for combining separate but familiar images in new ways often seems effortless. As a result, his limited edition concert posters for the likes of Wilco and Loretta Lynn have since become collectors items (along with many others).

Web Lab consists of five interactive Chrome experiments that highlight how internet experiences connect to real life. The year-long public exhibit is on display online and in the Science Museum, London, through June 2013. It enables people across the world to draw portraits in sand, create music, teleport to various faraway places, see where images live and browse a library of visitors’ creations. It’s an exciting website and requires a good chunk of time for discovery. 

Pamela D. Arceneaux, senior librarian and rare books curator at The Williams Research Center, is currently researching and writing about New Orleans Blue Books. But these blue books aren’t social registers or pricing guides like Kelley Blue Book for cars, they were prostitute directories for Storyville, where prostitution was legally sanctioned in New Orleans about a century ago. No one knows the true author nor publisher of New Orleans Blue Books, but weirdly, Will Bradley’s Mission Toys—ornaments designed in 1904 for the  American Type Founders Company (ATF)—appear in some! Follow along as this curiosity develops.