Design Work Life: Cataloging Inspiration Daily

Mama’s Sauce is gen­er­ously offer­ing you almost 200 300 dpi bitmaps of cre­ated from scan­ning their col­lec­tion of vin­tage let­ter­press plates. Score!

Jolby will be open­ing a new show, “Shapes & Smiles”, in San Diego on December 16^th. Here’s a sneak peek at the work.

The Post Family just launched a hol­i­day gift guide. Some great stuff there.

Some of Sharon Montrose’s lovely prints launched on 20×200 this week. Unfortunately a lot of the smaller sizes are sold out already, but you can still get a selec­tion of the larger ones.

63 Notable Design Books of 2011

Here’s an awe­some time lapse video of a mural cre­ated by Dan Cassaro for the Ace Hotel New York.

I love this 2012 cal­en­dar, which was designed to inspire artists on a daily basis, by Alexander C. Sprungle.

Wise words from Kate Bingaman Burt.

Good Reads: Taking Care of Business: Part 1, (Parts of) Women in Design, Storytelling and Real Storytelling, Dear Students, Milton Glaser on New Yorkers: ‘For Better or Worse You’re Here, and Doomed to Be Here’.

Can’t Miss Videos: Projection on the Bridge — Immersive Surfaces — As Above, So Below; Move, Learn, Eat.