"	When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration." Robert Bresson

Assignments

Find inspiration in some of latest assignments from Workbook illustrators and photographers, including this assignment by Rudy Gutierrez.

Out of Site

Adhemas.com: This Brazilian designer's boldly graphic work is a feast for the eyes. Pore over everything from his interactive work to illustrations and typefaces.

Arcade Art: If you ever spent hours plunking quarters into games in an arcade, this site is for you. Even if you weren't a Pong addict, the wonders found here will delight you.

Akrylic: A cleanly designed site containing articles, essays, and criticism on contemporary art and related topics.

b3ta: A global clock that collects images, memories, and experiences within the time frame of a day. You can submit anything you want to be part of this evolving site.

Blue Ball Factory: Post-modern brilliance. WARNING: Highly addictive!

Carbone Smolan Agency: CSA has branded everything from the Chicago Symphony to the Musee du Louvre. Poetic and simple.

Celluloid Skyline: An exploration of two cities... both called New York. The first is a real city, an urban agglomeration of millions. The second is a mythic city, so rich in memory and association and sense of place that to people everywhere it has come to seem real. This site is part book, part film.

Derek Stukuls Illustration: Line drawings, linotype and fun rollovers. His drawings will make you laugh and then inspire you to pick up your favorite HB pencil.

des chapeaux: French hats, mon cheri.

Fontalicious: Fonts, funky illustrations and design news. Free fonts, wallpaper, screensavers, backgrounds, merchandise, news and more.

Foreign Office: Formerly known as 4K, Foreign Office is a graphic design company based in London. Spiked with Brit humor and music. Go to the Playground and play with Iron Baby!

Genevieve Gauckler: A truly bizarre and wonderful book designer from France.

Gig Posters: Amazing posters for shows and events in the music scene. Posters, flyers and handbills showcasing the talent of really cool designers.

Gum 2  Check out Gum. Their second creation, "Gum 2," features a viewmaster, activity book, postcards, Puma gummis, activity book and, of course, big giant honking balls of gum. Colin Metcalf and Kevin Grady bring Gum to the masses and the flavor never lets you down. It's confectious!

Greg Lynn FORM: Defining how architects use computers as a design medium. FORM has a reputation for design innovation. Time magazine named him one of the "100 Innovators for the Next Century."

Gun Sho: James Quigley is a Boston-based poster artist and illustrator. He's influenced by comics, sci-fi art, monsters, animals, hermetic imagery, barbarians, anarchism and the woods.

Happy Tree Friends: Spawned from the sensibilities of Monty Python, Ren and Stimpy and Keane paintings, the furry characters of Happy Tree Friends are sure to make you laugh and/or put you off your lunch.

Krecs: Upcoming shows for some of the bands on "Synesthesia."

Loop.ph  Alarm clocks made of light woven into your blanket, walls with ears, sculptures made of light: take a look at loop's interactive works of functional art for the home and better living through light

Luc Latulippe: Design and illustration from Luc Latulippe - with a new monster every week! His site includes online design tutorials and more.

MAK: A Viennese cultural institution of applied arts and contemporary art renowned from Moscow to Los Angeles. MAK represents culture as an integral and uncompromising search for authenticity and its form.

Monkey Revolution  Espaun256, Tavo Ponce and Flavaquess have layered this site with work from the hip hop side of the city.

Orbit 1: Travel with John Perkinson. Written word and photography. Take a look at his poetic imagery and travel with him from frozen plains to the Altman Cemetery.

Photodocument.pl: Photography from Poland. Photojournalism from eastern Europe. Documenting architecture, people, death, life.

Quiet American: Aaron Ximm records (and sometimes manipulates) the sounds of the world wherever he journeys. Tune into some armchair traveling from your desk.

Ricky Jay: The sleight-of-hand performer, purveyor of arcane knowledge, practitioner of deceptive practices and author of "Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women." If you don't know Ricky Jay, you should.

Shift: Monthly e-zine of hot spots on the web, from Taketo Uguchi/Japan.

Stamen Design: Mappr!  Eric Rodenbeck, Mike Migurski and their happy workers create projects that combine client work and experimental design. A very happy hybrid of crazy and money-making ideas includes Mappr which places user's images from flickr.com on a map.

Tana's Habitat: "I have milk crates, what the heck can I do with them?" Tana March, environmental do-it-yourself design goddess, has the answer. This site will bring your milk crates out of the garage and into your living room with style.

This Is Swigg: Party pigs, bi-polar bears and squirrels like Earl. Stephanie Wenzel of SWIGG creates handmade vinyl and cotton pillows so cool that you can't resist either cuddling up with them or locking them away.

Tiger Magazine: a "screen magazine" since 2000 A.D., created by Takeshi Hamada and Tetsuya Goto. Based in Tokyo, Takeshi and Tetsuya create their online magazine on the move, wherever they happen to be and whenever they have an Internet connection.

Witold Riedel: Witold Riedel’s site, the artist behind the amazing ad campaign for Workbookstock.

Blogs

Art Addict   by Paige West, a curator of a large private contemporary art collection, founder of a gallery called Mixed Greens, and an all around contemporary art addict.

Art News Blog   is a selection of visual art news, art reviews and art related stories online. They search the web for some of the more interesting art news stories published each day.

Bryan Bell: Mainly Design New Bryan is a hard working designer and illustrator. His style is a clean, slightly sugary West Coast design. Excellent work.

Loobylu.com   Claire Robertson, an enchanting illustrator and recent mom from Australia, writes about her life down under. Her blog is an inspiration. She used to hand code all the pages and just recently switched to Movable Type. Her site is filled with love and good things.

Nil By Mouth  Neille Ilel, a native Californian now transplanted to Brooklyn, has been a blogger since 2001 and writes for the "Queen's Chronicle." Her blog is about trusting her life and letting us follow her progress towards a new stove.

Theme Magazine  A sleek new quarterly out of New York focusing on Asian culture worldwide. Issue No. 2, "I Live Here," is out now.

Tremble.com  Todd Levin is an intelligent writer embedded in the popular culture of New York: witty, urbane and very entertaining.

What's new, pussycat?  "What's new, pussycat?" is the actual title of the blog and it's a great one. Shauny has managed to attract a whole community of commentators to her site . That's no surprise because her writing is quite excellent and basically reflects her really great personality.