Design Work Life: Cataloging Inspiration Daily

We’re tak­ing off this beau­ti­ful Memorial Day to enjoy some down­time. I’m leav­ing you with just a Quick Links post today, but we’ll be back tomor­row with more inspi­ra­tion. Enjoy the day if you have some time off!

Fire It Up is a new pub­li­ca­tion about restau­rant brand­ing by Joseph Szala of Vigor Branding. Seamless was lucky enough to be fea­tured for our work with Toasties. Pick up a copy right here.

Check out Wim Crouwel’s advice for young design­ers.

Check out The Post Family’s amaz­ing wood mural for 37 Signals.

I’m def­i­nitely look­ing for­ward to see­ing how Evan Stremke’s new Momentus project develops.

You may remem­ber that awhile back I posted about Aaron Melander’s awe­some Target Chalet project. Well he’s now  updated his port­fo­lio to give us a look into the process. Pretty inter­est­ing to see.

Claudia from Fig 2 Design, posts about the dif­fer­ence between “sta­tionery” and “sta­tion­ary”. Amen — I have been see­ing this every­where lately and it’s been dri­ving me crazy!

There’s an excel­lent col­lec­tion of com­mence­ment speeches to be found at Longform. And speak­ing of com­mence­ment, check out the video of Amy Poehler’s recent address at Harvard.

I love that Character show­cases their employ­ees with a snap­shot of their desks—such a great way to com­mu­ni­cate a designer’s personality.

Good Reads: Seven Things Designers Can Learn from Stand-up Comics.