Not your mother's milk calendar

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Despite what you may have heard on the internet, these images are not for any of the upcoming Milk Calendars produced by dairy farmers' organizations. They're part of a series of "Milky Pinups" by photographer Jaroslav Wieczorkiewicz.

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Mr. Wieczorkiewicz is somewhat of a specialist in liquid effects, which he teaches in a touring workshop. Of this series, he says "This time I thought it will be cool to approach the liquid theme in a more relaxed and funny way. So we threw some colours into the mix and came up with a personal Milky PinUp tribute to my favourites pinup style artists."

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If you're concerned about the overt and antiquated sexism in the images (especially the clichés of ironing and weight-watching) I can at least say that the photographer was true to his source material:

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Most of the reference pin-ups are by Gil Elvgren, who was a master of the genre. Whether these interpretations, with their biologically-correct yet somehow unsettling combination of breasts and milk, are great homage, technically interesting, sexually objectifying or just plain weird... is up to you. But there will be a 2014 calendar. Just not an industry-sponsored one.

Thanks to Ivan for sharing Behance coverage of this.

Your daily dose of fat-shaming design nerd humour

I've done my fair share of Ariel abuse online. But this one seems like a rather nasty bit of fat bashing.

Next up: Look for "Ariel Italic" with a plate of pasta and Sophia Loren boobs. A waifishly thin "Ariel Narrow". And I don't even want to know how the pasty young imagination of the viral internet will render "Ariel Black" — although I am not optimistic.

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Update (June 28):

Mario moustache! I shoulda known...

FHM presents "The 100 sexiest women in nonexistence"

Betty or Veronica? Other Betty or Wilma? Erin Esurance or Kim Possible?

Since the stone age,  oversexed boys (and men) have fantasized about women who are figments of artistic imagination, from Venus figurines to coffee mascots.

To fan the hormonal fires, ladmag FHM is currently running a Facebok-based pageant in which users are encouraged to nominate and vote on "The 100 Sexiest Women in Nonexistence".

A motley collection of mythical, cartoon and literary characters, commercial mascots, internet memes, classical art and even pictograms, the list is intended to be a joke.

(The iPhone personal assistant, Siri, is on the list even though "she" is only a voice.)

But with this kind of humour also comes the opportunity to cross a few lines...

As the contest copy says, "This is your chance to vote for the sexiest non-existent woman ever. Lusty logos, saucy statues, cute cartoons: they're all here so get voting and make one imaginary woman very happy indeed."

While not exactly helping the status of women, it's just more dumb, boy humour. Although, I will have to admit — if somebody nominates the Feministing logo, I will be required by the rules of irony to laugh heartily.

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Censor your shame with the pixellated bath towel

Funny. Plus, it gets us into all kinds of interesting discussions about why we censor women's chests and not men's, or why we even consider nudity to be unseeable.

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Presenting the emoscowcon

Brands of The World shared a Brand New post about this spec project by two Russian creatives to brand the city of Moscow with its own emoticon:

Cute idea, but I think it's trying too hard. You see, they've combined my favourite emoticon, the googly-eyed shocked beyond belief expression, "o_O" with the tired old smiley, ":)"

The problem being that it is untypable. Nobody would ever use that emoticon, because it simply isn't one.  It may be ownable, being unique, but I take issue with concepts that need an equation to understand.

Makes for an amusing t-shirt, though...