Design Work Life: Cataloging Inspiration Daily

A cou­ple quick announce­ments before we get to the Quick Links:

• First, thanks to all who entered the RE:DESIGN Conference give­away! The win­ner will be announced very shortly, and will receive fur­ther instruc­tions by email.
• Second, thanks for all of your Gift Guide sub­mis­sions so far! Some peo­ple have been ask­ing how it works, so I just wanted to give a quick expla­na­tion. The process is pretty much the same as a reg­u­lar sub­mis­sion. You will get an auto-response when you sub­mit so you know that we’ve received your entry, and we’ll get in touch again if you work/suggestion will be included. The dif­fer­ence with the Guide is that I won’t be noti­fy­ing any­one of their inclu­sion as the entries are sub­mit­ted. I won’t be sort­ing through the entries and curat­ing the Guide until after the sub­mis­sion dead­line, which is November 1^st. So go ahead and keep the sub­mis­sions com­ing. You will be noti­fied by November 7^th if your entry will be included. Thanks!

David Airey started a great series for all job seek­ers in the design field, enti­tled What Employers look For. The series asks a num­ber of top employ­ers to give advice to job appli­cants, and so far three have been posted. Check them out here: one, two, three.

Twenty-seven let­ters.

Curtis Jinkins just released a new series of posters, check them out at Neighborood Studio.

Charles Wilkin has curated a col­lage exhi­bi­tion, All That Remains, that is cur­rently up at Ugly Art Room in Brooklyn. The show opened on Friday and will be on view through November 19^th; more details here.

More love for Brooklyn from Steve Powers.

I haven’t seen this movie in years, but see­ing this poster for It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown, by Tom Whalen, flooded me in a wave of nos­tal­gia. Sadly, they are all sold out.

Magnetic typog­ra­phy!

Lately it seems like the web has been filled with more and more neg­a­tiv­ity. I am see­ing it increas­ingly often with dwl, and it is cer­tainly dis­heart­en­ing, to say the least. So I def­i­nitely appre­ci­ated and related to these wise words from Chris Shiflett on swiss­miss.

Before I die…in Brooklyn.

Good Reads: Steve Jobs in His Own Words, Measure Design, An Interview with Stefan Sagmeister, The Particle, How to Get All the Way to Done.