thanks again for following me along my journey to employment!

Re:Vision Design Awards 2010, more details here

an online store for illustrated cotton basics. this service looks absolutely amazing. i can totally see myself designing some pillows just for myself as portfolio enhancement! mmm off to illustrator i go!

get one here

Travel and Leisure’s guide for America’s Favorite Cities is such a great resource for people who could be re-locating due to job offers! even if you’re not re-locating, check out some great recommendations for restaurants, shopping, and nightlife.

Expense-a-steak, the new way to stick it to da man. simply enter a dollar amount and Expense-a-steak will “crunch numbers” to generate faux receipts to add to your expense report. insanely wrong, but hilarious.

anyone who has experienced cryptic deadlines knows how useless it is. what does “We need to give it more time….” even mean?? I think my favorite quote of this article is, “The insistence of today often trumps the importance of tomorrow.”

In an attempt to get us going, I’d like to propose some guiding questions to help us collect our own time-sensitive results:

* How urgent is our question? How important? Do we have time for patience?
* What’s our time horizon for learning? How quickly could we have an answer (a day, a week, a month, never)?
* How will we know it’s working (learning, change, adoption, something else)?
* What might distract us?
* How will we capture the results?
* Can we design feedback into the experience?
* How aligned are the results and timing of this experiment with the goals and timing of our organization?
* Could we learn faster or more cheaply? If so, how?
* What happens next? What’s our best guess as to what we should do when we “know”?

looking to make the most out of what you already have? this book could be just the resource.

Perfectly suited to the spirit of our times, this book is a spare yet stylish guide to living without wastefulness. It chimes with today’s consumer and design trends toward cost-consciousness and environmental awareness, and shows how to live stylishly by reusing and repurposing rather than buying new. This book aims to inspire a sophisticated audience not yet prepared to sacrifice great design or good style by showing both exceptional designs by leading product designers as well as offering ideas for projects we all could, and perhaps should, create. Remake It Home blends inspiration and hands-on knowledge, containing a wealth of almost-forgotten skills for using found materials, left-overs, and trash. It is organized into six sections illustrated with designs by notable young talents such as Fritz Hansen, Ryan McElhinney, Alabama Chanin, Margaret Cusack, Junk+ion, and Studio Verissimo. Included are designs for furniture, lighting and accessories, storage, tools and appliances, textiles, and cleaning and laundry. Each section highlights resourcefulness in design, drawing on global trends, modern innovations, and traditional practices that are brought together in a harmonious, thrifty, ecologically sound, and life-enriching whole.

get in on amazon here.

If you’ve participated in the design, engineering, manufacture or distribution of an outstanding medical device, here’s your chance to shine. The 13th annual Medical Design Excellence Awards competition is open for submission by companies and individuals who have products commercially available by December 31, 2009.

more info is available here.