Sharpen those pencils and fill your TrapperKeeper to the brim with this list of fine favorites from August:

• Check out this (updated) comprehensive reading list for and by designers, courtesy InVision.
• NPR shares how they use Designing for Real Life to design news products with empathy.
• Find out how and where to watch “What Comes Next Is the Future,” a story of the web–how it came to be, where it’s been, and where it’s going—as told by the people who build it.
• Learning SVG from Chris Coyier is as awesome as it sounds. Hear more about his new book Practical SVG on the Non Breaking Space Show and Shop Talk Show.
• Our friends at Shopify offer their take on 20 web designers and developers you should be following on Twitter.
• In “The way we workshop,” Jeremy Keith talks about he and the team at Clearleft collaborate on projects.
• Issue 15 of Offscreen magazine highlights the Eric Meyer’s work in laying out an approach for building a more compassionate web experience.
• Erika Hall talks with Rosenfeld Media about “The Real Point of Research.”
• Catch up on Responsive Web Design podcast’s latest interviews with University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Texas State , and Google Fonts.
• Dan Mall kicked off the biggest design system project he’s ever worked on—take a look.

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