• Smashing Magazine has written one of my favorite design-related posts ever called Lessons From Swiss Style Graphic Design.

• Steve Pavlina teaches us how to network with busy people and if that wasn’t enough information to absorb, here’s part two!

• 50 fresh portfolio websites for your inspiration.

• Aerial Typography: British researcher Rachel Young has compiled a New York alphabet using Google Maps.

• Qwitter will notify you when someone stops following you on Twitter and better yet, it tells you after which tweet you were unfriended!

• Get a glimpse inside the uncomfortable (and in my opinion, downright creepy) world of child beauty pageants through the lens of photographer Susan Anderson (via kottke).

• 100 years of design manifestos.

• Young creatives keep showing up in Portland, but they should have done their research first because times are tough (via Pampelmoose).

• A quick reminder on why cheap logos aren’t work the cost.

• Could you live without money? Daniel Suelo is a modern day cave man living in Utah who has survived on zero dollars a day for nearly 10 years. He claims that “When I lived with money, I was always lacking. Money represents lack. Money represents things in the past (debt) and things in the future (credit), but money never represents what is present.”

What are your favorite links of the week?