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Designer Andrew Capener created this Scrabble set as a personal challenge to bring a bit of type appreciation to the letter-centric board game. He wanted to stir up some excitement in players about typography design by giving them the ability to choose their sets font. They could select a game set in their favorite font or with an assorted pack, with additional font sets available through the Scrabble site.

These wonderful type-based cards come to us from Jim Sutherland of Hat-Trick Design in London. Each card features a differenet typeface (yes, that's 52 faces), and though combining that many typefaces would normally be the stuff of design taboo, it makes for a beautiful card deck and poster design.

Daniel Dociu, a concept artist and art director in Seattle, has been working as an art director in the gaming industry for almost 20 years. Below you'll find a fraction of his concept art including work for Guild Wars 2. Some of my favorites in his portfolio are the environments that absolutely dwarf humanity. And be sure to note the surprising colors and highlights, making these look more like fantasy fine art than concept art.

These Angry Birds Lego models by Tsang Yiu Keung (or Chiukeung (CK)) are too cute and clever. And I'm still amazed at how accurately LEGO builders can recreate something, like the 1 Million Lego Buckeyes Stadium model we posted last week.