Transatlantic.

“One Minnesota Lake. One Logo. Everyday.” Nicole Meyer’s Branding 10,000 Lakes, via The Fox Is Black.

“15 Wallpaper* covers by 15 image makers” at Creative Review and “The 10 Greatest Steve Jobs Magazine Covers of All Time” at Grids.

“The paradox of Steve Jobs’s career is that he had no interest in listening to consumers — he was famously dismissive of market research — yet nonetheless had an amazing sense of what consumers actually wanted.”

James Surowiecki in the New Yorker. And, like Farhad Manjoo in Slate, he argues that Apple’s going to be just fine.

Stellar is a series of startling little animations from photographer Ignacio Torres. Via Colossal.

“Es lebe London!”

Wolfgang Tillmans in Die Zeit.

Francesco Bonami in the new 20th anniversary issue of frieze: “The collapse of theory, the rise of shallow aesthetics and a savage art market have bewildered consensus.”

And you thought the economy was in the dumps!

David Byrne’s iPhone apps aren’t real, but Chronology, the forthcoming DVD featuring Talking Heads performing 18 songs (with a welcome emphasis on the early years), is.

Cover stories: Jon Stewart schools Newsweek and the Atlantic Wire sees Time picking up a few lessons from Businessweek.

“Although European leaders were quick to define last month’s euro summit of 2011 as the day European leaders faced the crisis down, they know better now. Last month’s summit was yet another European chance of recovery thrown away, a turning point at which history failed to turn.”

In the Independent, Gordon Brown maps out the “wasted decade” ahead should Merkel and Sarkozy continue to pursue a policy of “austerity, and if that fails, even more austerity.” But he doesn’t leave it there; he also outlines “what I call the ‘“global Europe” plan’” — “Without action on the lines I suggest, no one can assume that Europe’s historic strength is enough to prevent the most punishing of future outcomes.”

“My fear is that we’re halfway through a ten-year crisis.”

Guardian economics editor Larry Elliott on the state of things.

Not nearly as big-picture but notable nonetheless: Paul Krugman on S&P and Michael Tomasky on the GOP.