Jessica Hische’s Should I Work for Free? flowchart now available as a 5 color letterpress print (with a price tag of $75, printed by Studio on Fire).

more sad news in the world of print publishing: ReadyMade magazine will shut down.

(Farewell, Ready Makers. but for now, you can still follow @ReadyMadeTweets)

list of Mike Dempsey’s design business tips

(via Swiss Cheese and Bullets, inspired by Mike Dempsey)

clickable mashup of “Books of the Year in colour 2010”

(via The Book Depository)

“Letterpress printing has officially gone mainstream…”
(via @designrelated)

“How Facebook Can Become Bigger In Five Years Than Google Is Today”
(via TechCrunch)

redesignrelated:

The Bloomberg BusinessWeek redesign

On April 26th, 2010, Bloomberg BusinessWeek unveiled the magazine’s new look, only months after Bloomberg’s acquisition of the publication…

(more photos via redesign:related)

“…In their minds, the suits did away with an antiquated pile of paper that taxed their resources and imaginations. But for those of us who produced and consumed I.D., in same cases for decades, an animate thing was prematurely struck down. Magazines are organic. They take on shapes and personalities that are independent of those who make them, and in this margin of self-sufficiency is something eerily close to life. Magazines are mammalian: warm-blooded, twitchy and dynamic whereas the businesses that buy them to turn a quick profit are cold-blooded reptiles, apt to engage in long bouts of inertia except for an occasional spastic flick of a murderous tongue…”

—Julie Lasky on “I.D.’s Executioners” (via Design Observer, design by Luke Hayman)

This week’s “The Permanent Temporary Workforce” cover for Business Week depresses me. (guess that means it is effective)

cover credits: Chris Buck (stylist), Liz Engelhardt (grooming)

“Where Books Are Treated Like Works of Art”
(article via Newsweek.com)

“The JCPenney printed catalog, the last “big” one to go”
(via design:related, cover images via zuhlcity)

another “threatening” message in my inbox from Time Warner Cable: 
Roll Over or Get Tough

“The Rise and Fall of Design Within Reach”
(article via Fast Company)

“Anthony Bourdain Back in Bed With the Food Network”
(via Eat Me Daily)