The Design Museum Shop's mission: celebrate good design.

Over two decades, the Shop has evolved from a small outlet selling postcards and a handful of products into a destination store for design conscious visitors from all over the world.

All profits from the Shop go directly into the Design Museum exhibitions programme, which means that every purchase you make contributes to dynamic shows, education and access to design for everybody.

http://designmuseumshop.com

RYZ is like threadless for shoes. The designs with the most votes are sold, and winners collect $1,000 and $1 per shoe sold.

http://www.ryzwear.com

Esquire celebrated its 75th anniversary with an electronic ink cover. It is a limited release at 100,000 copies.

I'm in the process of converting some video into a flip book. While trying to find some tips, I came across the FlipClips site. The service lets you upload your video and have it made into a flip book. I'm pretty sure that I will just do the work myself, but I thought this was a pretty clever twist to print on demand.

link: http://www.flipclips.com

Moo.com is offering free sampler packs of their business cards. You get 10 double sided business cards with your art/info & choice of paper. (Cards are printed with a moo watermark)

http://www.moo.com/products/sample.php

The following is a list of sites that I thought may be beneficial to those returning to class. While the list was done with students in mind, there is still lots of good stuff for everyone. Feel free to leave a comment if you have a favorite to add. Enjoy!

Photography / Art

istockphoto.com
Buy quality stock photos for less than a coffee
or sell your illustrations and photos for extra cash.
Free featured downloads every week.

morgueFile
Free stock photos

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/47d8df4123

Geekhouse Bikes builds custom bikes and they have developed a process to apply any digital graphics to the frames and rims.

http://www.geekhousebikes.com/index.html

The most unique cuddly laptop sleeve available! Your laptop sleeve can be built to perfectly encase your laptop. Foam-padded and built to protect. $65.00 from Barry's Farm

http://barrysfarm.net/product/monster-laptop-sleeve

Bloxes are building blocks made of interlocking pieces of corrugated cardboard, folded together. Their unique shape and structure make them exceptionally strong and lightweight — you could build yourself a platform to stand on, and then pick it up and move it wherever you need to.

http://bloxes.com/