Pantone continues to license its brand and colors to create smart and covetable Pantone Universe products. (See our earlier post about the new Pantone cufflinks.) Today comes word of a new collection of cups and mugs from London Design firm Whitbread Wilkinson and their line of W2 Products. The full set of 10 mugs would be a great addition to any design firm's kitchen or conference room.

The colors are:
• PANTONE 179 C Paprika 
• PANTONE 292 C Baby Blue
• PANTONE 3025 C Lagoon Blue
• PANTONE 337 C Duck Egg Blue
• PANTONE 363 C Pea Green 
• PANTONE 10 C Cool Gray
• PANTONE 732 C Chocolate
• PANTONE 130 C Mustard 
• PANTONE 520 C Grape
• PANTONE 3272 C Turquoise 

Interaction Designer
Crispin Porter + Bogusky

Crispin Porter + Bogusky – winner of the Cannes Titanium Lion for Interactive Agency of The Year - is looking for talented, innovative Interaction Designers to join the team at our Boulder, CO headquarters. Candidates for this position must have a strong foundation in information architecture, a keen eye for design, and a deep desire to produce groundbreaking experiences for the web.

We seek outside-the-box thinkers who suck down new technologies like Kool-Aid, and live to make the web a more well-designed and interactive place to live and play. After all, you’ll be creating for leading brands, like Volkswagen, Nike, Domino’s, Coke Zero, Burger King, Microsoft, Sprite, and Geek Squad.

This is a unique invitation to collaborate with the creative minds behind simpsonizeme.com, subservientchicken.com, petmoustache.com, comeclean.com, MINI’s roofstudio.com, sublymonal.com, and vw.com.

Posted by Megan

Client Director
Landor Associates

Landor touts the benefits of living in Cincinnati—affordable housing, a big yard, a 10-minute commute, excellent schools, great work-life balance, world-class culture, professional sports (we here at HOW HQ agree with all but the professional sports, which this year are disastrous).

Here's more from the job post:

We are seeking a Client Director who has the experience to help clients achieve business success by building, creating, and revitalizing their brand(s) across all points of touch. In doing so, the Client Director is responsible for building and maintaining long-term client relationships, for earning the role of trusted adviser (both to the client and colleagues), for achieving revenue and profitability targets, and for exhibiting the highest standards of integrity, professionalism, and ethics.

For our U.S. friends, enjoy the Thanksgiving holiday this week; for our overseas friends, enjoy the peace and quiet on Thursday and Friday, when your American clients and colleagues won't bother you. The HOW blog will be quiet, too, with the team taking a bit of time off beginning later today. See you next week!

Chalk this up as one of those articles we wish we'd published first (it's so very HOW), but Daniel Schutzsmith has posted a piece outlining all the web-based tools that can help you run your design business. From e-mail to project management, there are a bunch of free or low-cost online programs. Nice.

Can't believe no one thought of this before now ... Earth911.com is an easy way to find recycling options near you for all kinds of items from your home or office, from leftover paint, to the old TV you had in college, to inkjet cartridges. Enter your ZIP code and the item you want to get rid of, and the site shows you options -- not just recycling centers but also organizations like Goodwill that accept donated goods. The site's design and UI are great, too -- once you enter your ZIP code, any page you visit will automatically show related links near you. And it offers up related articles about making smart usage of the things you own.

via Core77

If you're like us and just killing time in the office this week before we dive into the feast on Thanksgiving Day, here's a fun way to while away the pre-dinner hours (and relive your elementary school art class, to boot). Our friends at Rule29 are holding a little contest: download the hand template, decorate it to resemble a turkey, and then submit it to their 'fridge. They're giving away an iTunes gift card to the most fabulous entry.

HBO: Supplemental Design Manager,
Off-Air Creative Services

The Supplemental Design Manager will cover for employee on maternity leave. This person guides and motivates the creative team in developing all HBO/Cinemax print and web promotional effort. Maintains relationships with clients, understands their business objectives and strategy, and is able to communicate these strategies to their team-assuring the objectives have been met with the proper tone, messaging and design. Assumes leadership position in coordinating efforts between all stakeholders (art directors/designers/writers/project managers) in creative production of projects. Supervises the creative growth and career development of all designers and consistently seeks to enhance the level of creativity generated by team members.

Oh, and they'll reimburse your cable bill.

At HOW HQ, we share office space with book and magazine editors who work on titles related to all manner of crafting. And we've watched as a) the craft market goes more upscale and b) the design field gets more into handmade and hand-embellished work.

So in that spirit of design-meets-craft, one of today's Design*Sponge posts caught our eye: An advent calendar project with gorgeous typography that could be easily adapted for all manner of holidays. The artist, Denise Sharp, has an online shop and a blog with all kinds of yummy visual inspiration.