Now that Comcast is officially taking over NBC Universal today, the cable company has unveiled a horrible new logo for the famed broadcaster. The response hasn't been too kind. But we know you can come up with something better!

Poor Comic Sans! The favorite font of administrative assistants and H.R. representatives everywhere is deeply hated by so-called "design nerds." But guess what, design nerds? Poor unpopular Comic Sans might actually have a beneficial use. Because it's so horrifically ugly.

A design firm tweets that Diddy clothing line Sean John stole a design they made for a symposium at the Yale School of Architecture. That's what you get for demonstrating your cool design skills with the word "Seduction."

After general internet outrage over its aggressively unimaginative rebranding, clothing chain the Gap will revert back to its similarly boring "blue box" logo. People who call themselves "design nerds" can now go back to complaining about Comic Sans.

We asked readers to redesign the classic I ♥ NY logo—and outdo readers of the New York Times in the process—and naturally you rose to the challenge! Here are your creative submissions and the winner of Tuesday's contest.

JetBlue has appropriated the iconic "I ♥ NY" logo in its new ad campaign, so the Times invited readers to create similar mash-ups. The entries so far have been pretty lame, though. And we know you can do better.

How about putting President Obama on the dollar bill, instead of that old white-haired lady who's there right now? Design firm Dowling Duncan did it for the Dollar ReDe$ign Competition. Want to see their designs for the other denominations?

American design and architecture firm Choi + Shine has entered a design for giant electrical pylons in the shape of humans into the Icelandic High-Voltage Electrical Pylon International Design Competition. Now Iceland just needs some cash to pay for them.

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Today's Page Six had an especially glorious item, pitting the designs of two gossip blog networks against each other, with chatter that someone's totally biting our shit off: the socialite chronicling Guest of a Guest, and Gawker Media. That's us.

Five finalists have been named in the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene's design a condom wrapper contest. Winner gets their artwork on free jimmy-hat wrappers! The manhole cover design at left was described as such in City Room:

According to Fast Company, F+W Media is shuttering I.D., the venerable design magazine. There's a sad logic to it, since half of I.D.'s readership consisted of magazine art directors, most of whom have been laid off.

When you think "Esquire's Greatest Achievements in Its 70+ Years of Design Innovation," you think "Hidden ads on the cover" and "That other weird flashing electronic cover gadget." Until this new doohickey!

Hey, New York wants you to know about this little budding interior designer kid, a senior at Drew College out in Jersey. He is a treat, if you're into really precocious youngsters. And aren't we?

So much for Twitter being a source of real-time news! Nearly three weeks after Valleywag first reported the startup's poaching of top Google designer Doug Bowman, cofounder Biz Stone confirms the hire.

Continuing her unstoppable PR rampage, Google executive Marissa Mayer took to NBC's Press:Here, a Silicon Valley interview show. The cupcake princess of search defended her by-the-numbers approach to Google's design.

Is Marissa Mayer, Google's cupcake princess, driving away talent with her icy indifference and utter lack of management skills? One ex-Googler says yes. Here's Anne Halsall's tale of getting dissed by Mayer at a meeting:

As we reported last week, Doug Bowman, Google's top designer, has confirmed that he's leaving (we hear to Twitter). Bowman's reasons for quitting are fascinating — and they show why Google's losing its cool.

We're not sure why but Domino editor Deborah Needleman is determined to let some Hollywood interior designer run roughshod over the White House.

Sometimes the best art is the tiniest. Google's revamped favicon, a 16-pixel-by-16-pixel representation of the website, may be the best design work yet from a company not known for its visual flair.