As a gift to its top advertising clients, Facebook typically gives money to donate to a charity of their choice, along with a special item like last year's reusable shopping bag. This year they decided to do an art poster and the in-house Communication Design Team got to work. Seriously got to work. The result is a 19 × 19-inch-square poster that is printed, embossed and foiled with a delicate, intricate and obsessive design that has the signature typographic and illustrative style of Ben Barry, a designer at Facebook — and if you've been following his cryptic photo status updates on Facebook you finally have closure on what he was working on all this time.

To encourage the donation aspect of the gift, the poster comes with a silkscreened, wooden token that is then customized on the back with a unique code for redeeming the donation. But the token doesn't just lay there, no, it comes nested in a pretty little flower-like pod that holds it in place. And even opening the poster requires paying attention to the custom printed packing tape and the lovely rubber stamp that has been stamped by hand.

There are also two different Thank You cards printed in 1-color offset and clear foil stamp.

See the entire story including 26 images here.

-Thank you & credit to Under Consideration FPO

Starting out as a self-initiated project, Simon Page's posters for the International Year of Astronomy 09 ended up being used by the organisation and are now available to buy as prints. Click through to see more of them...

Page is a self-taught UK-based graphic designer with a particular interest in geometric patterns and shapes, which may stem from his degree in Applied Mathematics. But mathematics' loss is certainly design's gain, as Page has been creating some great work over the last couple of years.

Initially designed as self-promotional pieces, the posters eventually caught the eye of the IYA 09 organisation – a global astronomical awareness effort initiated by the International Astronomical Union and UNESCO – which approached him a few months ago to see if they could use them in their own promotional work (which Page agreed to). "Rather than go for a modern sci-fi, highly Photoshopped image, I've gone for a more retro feel with posters that you might of expect to see on an old astronomy book back in the 60s and 70s," says Page on his website.

Their popularity online has thus led Page to issue them all in two sizes measuring 13" x 19" and 18" x 24" (priced at a modest $40 and $60, respectively). You can view and purchase all the prints in the series, here.

Page is offering free shipping to the US if customers spend $80 (the price of two of the smaller prints). Discounts are also available for those wishing to buy more than two prints.

-Article posted by Mark Sinclair for Creative Review

The creator of Best Camera, noted photographer Chase Jarvis, has published a book of photos taken with the iPhone and has launched a website where anyone can share their favorite images. See more of Chase's work as well as others in the recent article, Photographers and Their iPhones here.

Here are some photographs taken by us.

Photographs taken by Joel Lueb using the iPhone 3G and Camera Bag.

Photographs taken by Jill Finley using the iPhone 3G and Camera Bag.