desidioms

Supermarket

Supermarket by Rudy Vanderlans is a great-photography-book-possibly-a-nice-christmas-present. For lovers of Emigre, and its photo-graphic stories, this book is a definite must-have. It's full of Vanderlans' spirit of capturing the everyday and turning it into eye candy. In this case, he's taking the California desert and developer's initiatives to settle it, and delivers captivating images of surprising beauty.
Originally published in 2001, the book is priced from $45 to $53, but can be found for $14.99 and $11.99 used.

you work for them

a link off the QBN Bookshelf section of newstoday led me to you work for them - a cool online bookstore that i wish was down the street, rather than online. it'd be across the street from the phaidon design library, caddycorner to the graphic-designer's-salary-friendly design matters outlet store, and i could get to it easily on my environmentally conscious and stylish hybrid range rover.
even though that little scenario is as close to real becoming real as the current administration is to being trustworthy, you work for them is a great site full of design classics, specialty short-run, hand-made items, worldwide design products unavailable in many local markets, typefaces, stock design, other tools, books, mags, videos, cd-roms, t-shirts - and most importantly inspiration.