May has arrived and flowers are in full bloom this spring season.  In an effort to mix things up a bit, we’ve decided to collect floral imagery representative of spring and create ad hock color palettes with the pixels provided.  As designers, we’re inspired by nearly everything we consume, so it’s quite natural to repurpose when given direction.   Here are four palettes that could easily translate to summer prints, inspired by wall stencils in Allston, weeds in Brooklyn, flowerpots in Gramercy and a home garden in San Francisco.

For additional palettes that are strikingly beautiful and paired up with interesting photography, check out Kris’s Color Stripes.

The idea of co-working can exist beyond office environments.  Kapitza’s latest publication, Geometric Book presents a visual menagerie of contrasting shapes and intersecting palettes.  The organized chaos within each page mirrors the energy independent workers bring to collaborative work environments.  “How can you create beautifully if you don’t surround yourself with beauty?” says Judy Prays, a freelance internet video producer living in Greenpoint.  Co-working spaces have popped up in every city and suburb around the world, proving that creatives will find each other if wifi’s involved.

In Good Company, a collaborative work environment in Manhattan, caters to women entrepreneurs with small businesses. Reaching out to a more transient, non-committal group of innovators, Pretense, a workspace in Jerusalem, serves as a connector for creative clusters on the go.

Fusing photography with Russian poster palettes,