Design Work Life: Cataloging Inspiration Daily

In case you were liv­ing under a rock last week and missed the news of Stefan Sagmeister and Jessica Walsh join­ing forces as Sagmeister & Walsh, here is the orig­i­nal announce­ment. Fair warn­ing: this is not safe for work. There have been all kinds of responses to their con­cep­tual and styl­is­tic choices, from “genius” to “bull­shit.” If you’re unsure what to think, Creative Review put together a short piece that fea­tures some addi­tional back­ground behind both the part­ner­ship and the announce­ment itself.

Should you check your email?

First, Boys and Girls impressed the inter­webs with their Lego board­room table. And now they’ve topped them­selves, by cre­at­ing a recep­tion desk held up by bal­loons.

Skillshare recently announced the school of Behance.

Erin Jang cre­ated this awe­some stop motion video for the Fortune 500 iPad issue using gilded let­ter­forms she con­structed out of wood.

I loved read­ing about the think­ing behind this year’s Brand New Conference iden­tity.

I’ve got my eye on this poster and this cam­era.

Erik Marinovich has a brand new site fea­tur­ing tons of gor­geous let­ter­ing projects.

This week I spent a bit too much time explor­ing The Interactive Interaction of Color, a selec­tion of exer­cises and exam­ples from Josef Albers’s Interaction of Color.

I’m intrigued by this new Kickstarter project by Jon Pack and Gary Hustwit, The Olympic City, which aims to explore Olympic host cities after the games have long past.

Good Reads: The DNA Of Idea Execution: How Creatives Are Working Today, The Most Comma Mistakes, A New Metaphor for Your Career.