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Monday Quick Links: 05.21.12

Last week, Lost Type Co-op celebrated both their first birthday and the release of a new font, Edmond Sans. Fast Company just launched the 2012 installment of The 100 Most Creative People in Business—I look forward to this feature every…

Monday Quick Links: 05.14.12

Check out The Hungry Workshop’s Trophy Lives letterpress prints—they’re awesome. Knoed put together some great advice for young designers. In case you missed this year’s 99% Conference (like me—next year I won’t be making that mistake), be sure to check…

Monday Quick Links: 05.07.12

During a three-week Creative Problem Solving Course in the Digital Media Management master program of Hyper Island Manchester, students developed Queue Hacker, a way to take the queue out of the post office. It was developed for Britain, but I could see it…

Monday Quick Links: 04.30.12

The site for the SVA MFA Design program is up and running, with links to each designer and their thesis projects. Check it out here. Speaking of SVA, one of the projects I mentioned last week, Day Job, now has…

Monday Quick Links: 04.23.12

Sadly, the design world lost Hillman Curtis last week, an incredibly influential creative thinker who touched the lives of many. (If you haven’t watched his artist series films, they are a must view.) His New York Times obituary can be…

Monday Quick Links: 04.16.12

Check us out on page 50 of the latest issue of Uppercase Magazine, where we interviewed the incredibly talented Kelli Anderson. If you missed Paula Scher’s recent critiques of the AIGA’s Justified competition, the essays and discussions are must reads.…

Monday Quick Links: 04.09.12

Abstract City, a compilation of 16 of Christoph Neimann’s popular New York Times visual essays, is now available for sale. Fast Company is launching a new design and innovation competition. Fontshop has released a Beta version of their Photoshop plugin…

Monday Quick Links: 03.26.12

Pinterest has updated their Terms of Service, Acceptable Use Policy, and Privacy Policy. Their recent blog post outlines the basics. In honor of last night’s Season 5 Mad Men premiere (finally!) Eight Hour Day created this Drink Smoke Work iPhone wallpaper. Download it…

Monday Quick Links: 03.19.12

I’m still not 100% sure if I will adopt the Curator’s Code process for attribution. I’m all for citing sources, but I have some of the same questions and hesitations as these guys. However, reading Kelli Anderson’s take on the project has…

Monday Quick Links: 03.12.12

The Curator’s Code, “a standard for honoring attribution of discovery across the web”, is a new project from Maria Popova, Kelli Anderson and Tina Roth Eisenberg that should be of particular interest to blog readers and publishers. Though I haven’t had enough…

Monday Quick Links: 02.27.12

Herb Lester released a new map of Austin, Texas illustrated by Curtis Jinkins. Okay Type created a beautiful site for the release of their new typeface, Harriet. I just happened to notice Jeff Rogers’s great typographic “In Lights” prints which (I…

Monday Quick Links: 02.20.12

Issue 2 of Computer Arts Collection is now out! Check out this more in-depth preview of the first two issues for a closer look. Roald Dahl Stamps! In case you missed this Valentine’s Day video I tweeted last week, it’s…

Monday Quick Links: 02.13.12

Kate Spade has brought back their e-valentines for 2012. I can’t tell you how much I love Love Ever After, a Kickstarter project by Lauren Fleishman. It’s no surprise to me that the photography book, which tells the stories of couples who…

Monday Quick Links: 02.06.12

Designers & looks like it could be a great resource for designers to connect with both printers and developers. I love these great illustrations about working solo by Lizzy Stewart. Emily Oberman, of Number 17, is Pentagram’s newest partner. Eight…

Monday Quick Links: 01.30.12

Never thought these words would come out of my mouth, but I’m really liking JC Penney’s new brand. Seems like most of the Brand New commenters enthusiastically hate it, but I think it’s really appropriate for the audience and definitely an improvement…

Monday Quick Links: 01.23.12

We were happy to join in last week’s protest against SOPA and PIPA, and it looks like the internet’s joint efforts paid off. The bill has now been indefinitely delayed. Aesthetic Apparatus’s Valuco font project has already reached it’s Kickstarter funding…

Monday Quick Links: 01.16.12

Good morning readers! Just a quick reminder about the DWL Content Survey, which is open through tomorrow: if you’re still interested in giving us some feedback, you can find it right here. Thanks so much to everyone who has participated…

Monday Quick Links: 01.09.12

A couple of more “best of” posts to round out the year: The Best Movie posters of 2011, Johnson Banks Review of the Year. Jessica Hische’s Should I Work for Free Flowchart, is now available as a five-color letterpress print.…