Design Work Life: Cataloging Inspiration Daily

We’re tak­ing off after the Quick Links today to enjoy Memorial Day. We’ll be back with reg­u­lar posts tomor­row. Enjoy!

Registration for the next Brand New Conference is now open. This year it’s in New York, so I will hope­fully be in attendance.

Speaking of con­fer­ences, James Victore just launched a new project: Takes This Job and Love It. The details are a lit­tle sparse right now, but this descrip­tion has me intrigued and excited: “A one day live event about work, life, and buck­ing the sta­tus quo. Come reclaim your cre­ativ­ity, ignite your path to per­sonal great­ness and access a higher level of badass-dom.” Be sure to sign up for the mail­ing list to stay in the loop.

Lettercult named Erik Marinovich their per­son of the year.

CheatSheet is a great lit­tle app that helps you quickly find short­cuts in the appli­ca­tions you’re using.

Help Ray Fenwick with his goal of reach­ing “near infin­ity” logos (exam­ples here).

Last week I was really excited to see the launch of Pilot and Captain, a new project fea­tur­ing travel-themed shirts and prints from The Heads of State. Check out the entire selec­tion right here.

Bariol is a new type­face from Atipo. Get it for free by pay­ing with a tweet.

An event worth attend­ing if you’re in NYC: A Celebration of Hillman Curtis.

52Aces is a deck con­sist­ing of 52 extremely dif­fer­ent cards. The basic idea was to have each of these cards indi­vid­u­ally designed by an inter­na­tional designer or illus­tra­tor in their dis­tinct style. Then the unique ensem­ble, in which a vari­ety of illus­tra­tions in many styles come together to form an inter­est­ing com­pendium, was to be pre­sented in high-quality pack­ag­ing and sold in a lim­ited edi­tion of 999 copies.

Good Reads: The Great Discontent: Dan Cederholm, Advice on Living the Creative Life from Neil Gaiman, Augmented Paper.