I still view it as the TV accomplishment of the century that Fallon got The Roots to be his houseband, but HOW FUN IS THIS? And who knew Fallon had groove?

My little sketchbook site Prom Night Fist Fight goes through seasons of feast and famine, generally determined by work schedule, life schedule, and inspiration (or lack thereof). Work has been more typographically dense lately, and I want to create more pieces in that vein for fun. I think it’s helpful to have frameworks for such things, so…

I found a random site that listed all the possible Magic: The Gathering card names—I’ve never played the game, but a pre-determined “world” of phrases seems easy enough to pull from—and I’m going to take a few weeks on PNFF to typeset the ~50 card names I liked the most. With content like “Goretusk Firebeast,” “Merfolk of the Pearl Trident,” and the above “Zombie Assassin” on the list, this should be a riot.

Development can help great people be even better—but if I had a dollar to spend, I’d spend 70 cents getting the right person in the door.
—Paul Russell, Director of Leadership & Development at Google

I’ve been thinking quite a bit about hiring lately (I can’t help it—we’ve added three fulltime staff and an intern to our team in the last month) and some concepts have risen to the surface:

1. For senior positions, hire talent.

2. For junior positions, hire potential.

3. For every position, don’t hire people you don’t like.

Of course, it must be said, ignoring lists is also extremely important.

As far a design firms go, I’m a bit of a Pentagram fanboy. Their recently announced hire of new partner Eddie Opara (formerly running The Map Office) does nothing to curb that—he’s got an amazing track record.