Design Work Life: Cataloging Inspiration Daily

There was an out­pour­ing of love and sad­ness expressed over the pass­ing of Steve Jobs, a true cre­ative vision­ary, from within the cre­ative world and beyond. Many, many beau­ti­ful words were writ­ten, with a greater and more pro­found impact than I could ever man­age — see Frank Chimero, Russ Maschmeyer and Laura Vit.

Creative super cou­ple Kate and Will are cur­rently hold­ing a fundraiser to help reduce the costs of med­ical bills incurred dur­ing Will’s can­cer treat­ment. Though I’ve never met them in per­son, I’ve been fol­low­ing Kate’s blog for years, so I feel like I know them on some level. Hopefully I can do a small part to help by send­ing some of you awe­some read­ers their way. They’re sell­ing a selec­tion of prints of both of their work on Etsy, so head on over and check it out.

Yes!: 9 lan­guages all with a pos­i­tive message.

If you con­tribute $30 or more to the pur­chase of The Lost Type Co-op’s Ribbon type­face — by Dan Gneiding—you’ll receive this lovely printed spec­i­men book.

Can’t wait to get my hands on Iron Beasts Make Great Beauty, Gestalten’s new book about the work of Studio on Fire.

Art Works is a new poster con­test to sup­port American jobs: Obama for America is seek­ing poster sub­mis­sions from artists across the coun­try illus­trat­ing why we sup­port President Obama’s plan to cre­ate jobs now, and why we’ll re-elect him to con­tinue fight­ing for jobs for the next four years. Make a con­tri­bu­tion right here.

Andrew Kolb just launched the Neat Shop fea­tur­ing a great selec­tion of prints.

Monacle reports on Playtype Copenhagen, where e-Types has recently started sell­ing fonts out of a shop around the cor­ner from their office.

The Reginapolis Map: a New York City map com­posed of Regina Spektor lyrics.

Good Reads: He Said/She Said: Designing Together (with Eight Hour Day), Difficult People, To Be a Happy Entrepreneur, Build a Business That Meets Your Needs, Banishing Your Inner Critic, Steve Jobs and Paul Rand: The Impact of Confidence.