
Update
Shortly after we posted this, we launched The YouWorkForThem Book Archive in response to everyones comments. We hope you enjoy this new section of design information.
The Bad News
This year has been a strange one for YWFT, that is for sure. As 2009 brought us many new challenges with the economy, we have been able to tough out yet another economic disaster (we started YWFT right after 9/11). This of course would not have been possible if some changes were not made. The most noticeable and recent change was the removal of the books section on our site. When we went online back in 2002, the book section was quite popular and very successful. While we as a company never really made much profit on our books (no gold teeth as of yet), we loved having access to these books in-house, supporting the designers and providing great inspiration for our many customers. Around 2007 though, Read more…


This morning I came across the mega-load, the gold mine, utopia, a secret treasure of amazing book designs. Unfortunately I am too busy right now to truly enjoy this blog, and will have to spend more time on this later. But you can enjoy these now over here and even on flickr.


Discovered some bizarre, Czech children’s illustrations here.
We just got in Corporate Diversity after having it on order for many many months (before it was blogged etc). This is by far one of the best books we have ever had.
Don’t sleep, order one now.

Check out some great titles just marked down in price. Deals & Steals. And look out for this new font, Memoriam, from Canada Type.

Did you know we have a recommendation section on our site? No? Well, now you do. And we’ve made it even easier by creating this informative and collectible PDF poster available for download. If you like, you can print it out, hang it up, and show that you know your essentials.
Book Advice 101 Poster
(Links in PDF are active, so they will bring you to each book in the store.)

Believe in god or not, the design work Matthew Wahl is doing for Christians is very nice work, and very progressive. Rock on God