As a follow to an earlier post on Coroflot’s Design Salary Survey here is a design salary calculator published by AIGA this year. It only covers the US but is comprehensive in terms of covering fields of design as well as organization size and sector.

They have been doing it since 2001, and Coroflot’s Design Salary Surveys continue to illustrate why design is actually a pretty practical career choice, regardless of what Mom and Dad said. Despite our recession — or the euphemistic “super recession” I’ve read it labeled as of late (That’s just a Depression, no?) — design salaries are growing, as are job opportunities. By the way, I want to know who the Interaction Designer is that is making a cool $Million. Check all of the design salary surveys here.

If you like street art then the Wooster Collective is so deep in examples of outsider art that you are sure to find work that will make you want to go on a stickering or stenciling mission in your home town. I’ve been a fan ever since I found an original Adam Neate painting on the street in SOHO way back in 2002, and had no idea it was by Adam Neate (nor who Adam was) until Marc Schiller of the Wooster Collective agreed to have a look. Then I interviewed Marc, and interviewed Adam, and have not stopped looking at the Wooster Collective website since.

Allow me to be the last to tell you that these videos produced by Cool Hunting are addictive and short jolts of creative inspiration that will keep you coming back. I subscribe through iTunes so they are fed to my iPhone and when the need arises, the next thing you know I’m watching a new interview with Alberto Allessi or this feature on Philip Johnson’s Glass House. All the videos are listed here.