Happy day! The wonderful Scribble Project by OPPY is back in business and gearing up for a big team scribble: a super long train of carriages doodled by you. This is one of the most clever collaboration projects around and with last year's successful totem pole created with over 100 submissions (as featured in Anorak Magazine), we have no doubt this train will be chugging along in no time. Don't hesitate, click here to participate and download the template, submissions close February 16th 2010 February 26th, 2010 (deadline has been extended).

Once collated and printed, the coloring zine will be available for purchase at the start of March, with all profits donated to UNICEF. Big ups to OPPY for reminding us all to step away from the computer screen and do something fun. Love, love, love this.

I came across these lovely digital doodles the other day, by Karla Sharin. I really like the pop culture/Indie music references and the soft hand that makes me wonder, are these really digital? And get this, she's only 17! Check out some more of her compu-sketches at: http://digitaldrawings.tumblr.com/

Did you know that the space between your eyebrows is called the glabella? Or that kissing for one minute can burn 26 calories? Yeah, me either. But now, thanks to Learn Something Every Day (a self initiated daily project by UK based design studio Young), we can learn all kinds of random and pointless facts in doodle-form.

Kristen sends an email to tell me about The Hello Project, an online social collaboration where anyone can submit a post-it note saying hi, shalom, hola, howdy, etc. It's simple to participate, just write/sketch/doodle an introduction onto your favorite colored 3x3 post-it, scan, and submit via email. It's fun, easy as pie and everyone is doing it.

I've discovered a new favorite pastime: browsing the wonderful pages of letterPLAYGROUND. The site comes to us courtesy of the talented and generous Nate Williams. Nate is not only one of my favorite artists, he's also the founder of Illustration Mundo, the highly successful illustration community. And now he has given birth to a site full of letter inspiration.

Hand-drawn, digital, photography, collage, you name it and you'll find it. A place to play with letter forms that are represented a million different ways. If you like letters the way I like letters, then you better clear your schedule, you'll need the rest of the day.

I found this amazing video on the Boston Biker blog. Even if you don't ride a bicycle I am sure you will love this short little film.

I'm not going to say anything on this one, except, "why didn't I think of that."

Follow The Leader is a small project that we dreamt up recently that focuses on three things we like: friends, illustration, and collaborating with friends. We started with six drawing 'seeds', and asked our friends and community to complete the seeds, in whatever way they imagined.

Just brilliant! Found via @michaelnobbs.