Design Work Life: Cataloging Inspiration Daily

Kate Spade’s color of the month is orange, and this time around they’ve paired up their own Meghan Eplett with Language Dept to cre­ate the monthly video.

The lat­est release from Cloudy Collection—Monster Parade, a col­lab­o­ra­tion with Ed Emberly and “four­teen of his biggest fans” — is now avail­able for purchase.

What should I read next def­i­nitely looks like it could come in handy.

The Post Family and Pitch Design Union just did a great inter­view with Tina Roth Eisenberg of Swissmiss.

Simon Foster has curated a list of read­ily avail­able, free fonts that he often uses — check out the selec­tion at Free Faces.

Killed Covers was an exhi­bi­tion of rejected book jacket designs hosted by The New York Times—check out 15 of the cov­ers from the show right here.

Loving these videos by Thomas Shim: The Manifesto and Motion Reel 2011.

I’m pretty much con­vinced that the Mattson Creative stu­dio (more here) is the coolest work­space I’ve ever seen. (via Graphic Exchange)

Good Reads: Why Creative People Need to Be Eccentric, How to Set Smart Daily Goals, 10 More Questions for Design Army, Crowdsourcing: Sabotaging Our Value, Famous Creators on the Fear of Failure.