Design Work Life: Cataloging Inspiration Daily

Maraid Design is offer­ing up a whole series of vin­tage map desk­top wall­pa­pers, on their blog.

Now’s your chance to sub­mit a design to UNIQLO’s annual t-shirt design com­pe­ti­tion. Read more about what’s involved right here.

SVA has announced their fall line-up for exhi­bi­tions, lec­tures and events. Check out the sched­ule right here.

I love this new project by Owen Davey, for the Orange: The Feed, Who Plays Who.

By way of the Creative Freelancer blog I came across Laurel Black’s per­sonal expe­ri­ence with a crowd­sourc­ing dilemma (read about the after­math here). Her response to her unhappy, yet unin­formed, client was very impres­sive, so I thought I’d share.

The folks over at HOW and Print are launch­ing two brand new con­fer­ences this year, Interactive and Color.

The 10^th poster in the 1200 Posters series is now avail­able; this time fea­tur­ing artist Jing Wei.

I Need Nice Things has some great art print options.

Good Reads: 9 Reasons Why Failure is Not Fatal, Training Genius: The Learning Secrets of Polyglots and Savants, Handling the Client Approach.

Can’t Miss Videos: Off Book: Type, by PBS and Seth Godin on Being an Entrepeneur, Telling Stories and Making Ideas Matter.