October 2011
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ZenCash - payment collections services for... →
I used to use Blinksale as my invoicing system until they started stagnating a few years ago and better solutions came along. Since then Blinksale has been under new management and have revamped their services — including an intriguing $15/month “unlimited everything” pricing structure that’s certainly more appealing than a menu of varying pricing plans.
They’re now...
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As far as the Moleskinerie logo contest is concerned, we would like to clarify...
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Moleskine wants you to design their new logo for free
(via Moleskine’s own Facebook Page)
Earlier this week you may have heard a similar story about the Obama campaign asking designers to create posters on spec to help promote jobs creation of all things (feel free to read my...
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Mourir Auprès de Toi (To Die By Your Side)
Spike Jonze + stop motion + bookstore + Dracula + Macbeth
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The Super-Rich Super-Heroes Respond To... →
I wonder what Joe Shuster would have drawn? ;-)
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Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did...
– Steve Jobs
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Sunni Brown’s TED talk about the importance of doodling and sketching is no news to us, but let’s hope everyone else learn a little something.
(via TED: Doodlers, Unite! | Sunni Brown)
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Yes, the Obama campaign is soliciting unpaid labor to create a poster...
– Obama Solicits Designers to Work - Unpaid - on … Jobs Poster | Tim Dickinson | Rolling Stone
Add Mr. President to the list of big name clients who want to crowd-source get free work from designers. That it’s to promote his jobs plan is the icing on the face-slapping cake.
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Review of rare early comics on exhibition at Yale →
Yale’s library is exhibiting comics dating back to the 1840s.
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Dan Clowes and Seth on The Leonard Lopate Show →
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Today's Inspiration →
Y’all should head over to Leif Peng’s “Today’s Illustration” blog for some great stories and discussions about how much illustrators in the 1950s used to earn. The three most recent posts cover a lot of this. Pop ‘em into your Instapaper for some bedtime reading.
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I was tickled to stumbled onto this tonight. PAL (the Performing Arts Lodge) is a retirement community for people in the performing arts: actors, musicians, dancers, stagehands, etc… Retirees living here are still working and keeping busy in the arts (there’s a full theatre on the top floor, and there’s always something happening there). Let’s face it, artists never retire. I...
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“Moonshine: Artists after dark” is a short, enjoyable documentary showcasing the personal work of several artists who work at DreamWorks.
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Art Spiegelman On The Future of the Book →
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