I love www.patterntap.com --it's a great web site for building little collections of web-design inspiration!

Pattern Tap

Thanks for contributing to CC webworking with all the amazing articles!

This is the kind of bloggers we want in the 7th floor.

One of our very own students' package design is featured at The Dieline, "the leading package design website."

Read the post here.

Great job, Asli! It really is a very beautiful piece.

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This is really a great resource for finding out about new (and old) design books, and if they are worth the usually high price tag they carry.

The Designer's Review of Books.

50 pedestrian/passenger symbols are available free online, thanks to AIGA.

Check out this video.

I just read this article in the current issue of HOW Magazine about the new Graphic Designer, the "Culture Creator." I can relate so much! Although I stand by my opinion that Graphic Design is not art, I think Graphic Designers can be artists and probably should be, as the article's author Matt Mattus says; "the best designers are first and foremost artists. Everything else can be learned. Honest design requires talents that cannot be learned, only improved upon. Those gifts are passion, curiosity and drive."
Read the article here.

Design Sponge is pairing up with the New York Public Library, and invited five Brooklyn artists to get inspired by the library's collection. They have produced a series of videos documenting this process.
Here is the first.

A "polarbearoid" a day by Monica Clapcott.

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Via Design Observer.

...that makes designers say "I wish I would've come up with that!!!"
Beautiful, practical, useful. The "Seeing Eye Calendar" is both a calendar and an eye chart. Yes, it works both ways.
Want your own? Get it here.

Via Design Observer.

This is definitely eye catching
Book Covers Anonymous is a blog about, well... book covers! It's very interesting and a great source of inspiration. Enjoy!

I think not. Graphic design has to function, serve a purpose, communicate a message to a specific audience. Art doesn't have to, necessarily.

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this is just too cute!

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