This week, I took a moment to ask my fellow comrades in Emma’s design department to share some web goodness with the rest of the world and share where they go to get inspired. What are some of their sites to live by (or at least design by)? Here are a few gems:

For some good design talk, Jessica never passes up a good read at Speak Up.
“There is always a hot debate about a new design or theory. Reading everyone’s feedback is not only entertaining, but very informative. There are often good tips and tricks mentioned throughout.”

Taylor keeps her homepage locked on goodmagazine.com.
“They’re always really interesting and informative, but usually more on a positive note. I love the design of both the magazine and the site. And they have a blog too.”
This is a great resource for information on topics such as creative ways to do good in the world and the extinction of bananas.

As for me, I like to get my daily dose of inspiration from Design*Sponge. With an average of 6-10 posts a day, the site covers everything that is design, from modernistic chandeliers to typography to where to find a good art gallery in Denmark. Also, the D-I-Y section can bring out the creative in anyone.

What design site keeps you coming back for more? Please leave a comment & inspire us.

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Or would-be superheroes, anyhow. We just posted our latest Ask Emma Q&A newsletter, featuring three quick ways to be the office email hero with our latest recent audience activity feature. The cape is entirely optional.

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When we moved into the new Emma digs in January, we weren’t sure what to do with all the extra wall space (not to mention other amenities like “more than two restrooms” and “hey, it doesn’t smell weird”). We framed some marketing and campaign creative and put up some of those famous Hatch Show Prints, but when it came to painted stuff, we just didn’t think a corporate art rental program was our style.

Instead, we invited the kids of Emma employees who attend Children’s House Montessori School in Nashville to create the art for us, asking them to look at Emma’s logo and create an entire picture of Emma around it. Another team helped to paint a cityscape. So now we have something of an art gallery to welcome folks who visit the shop, complete with gallery-like descriptions for each work of art. Here’s one for your artistic enrichment, with four more that follow after the jump…

Emma with Tiny Chicken Arms, and Perfectly Okay About It Watercolor on Canvas A classic study in human and fowl proportion, Tiny Chicken Arms is believed by some art critics to be the first attempt to combine a human body and chicken arms in a blouse that was clearly intended for much larger, non-chicken-like appendages. At first glance, the work appears to feature legs of differing lengths, almost in an accidental way, but note how the subject’s earrings follow the same long-short pattern. Also, the subject has no nose. Patrons interested in further researching the early career of O. Smith can see also: Figure with Large, Bulbous Right Leg and Normal-Sized Left Leg, Four Fingers with Two More Sticking Out of the Wrist Area, and Boy With Unintentional Extra Neck. Artist: Owen Smith (age 5) Children’s House Montessori

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If you’re new to Emma’s blog, you might not know that we plant 5 trees for each new customer that chooses us as their email marketing service provider. You also might not know that we ask our fearless blog readers to help us choose where each month’s batch of trees should go. Ohio was the winner of last month’s poll, so we’ll be working with Plant-It 2020 to plant half of May’s 1,630 trees in the Buckeye State and the other half in the equatorial region of Plant-It 2020’s choice.

Of course, it’s a new month, which means it’s time for a new poll:

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