Design Work Life: Cataloging Inspiration Daily

Yesterday CreativeTechs sent out a really great newslet­ter that com­piled a list of free ebooks geared towards design­ers. I’ve only got­ten to look through a few so far, but it seems like an extremely help­ful list.

In down­load­ing all the PDFs I was reminded of ChangeThis, a site where users can sub­mit, view and down­load man­i­festos writ­ten on a wide vari­ety of top­ics. Sort of like a Threadless for writ­ing, a user will sub­mit a pro­posal for a man­i­festo idea, and the other users will vote on it. From there the site admin­is­tra­tors decide whether or not to approve the con­tent to be pub­lished online. You can find man­i­festos on all sorts of top­ics — from busi­ness to pol­i­tics to tech­nol­ogy — but there hap­pens to be quite a bit of design and marketing-related con­tent on there.

Here are a few I find interesting:

1. 2.06 Do Less, by Seth Godin
2. 26.05 We Need a New Word for Brand, by Michael Hogan
3. 16.01 Why Smart People Defend Bad Ideas, by Scott Berkun
4. 32.04 100 Ways to Kill a Concept, by Michael Iva