Category Design

Naked & Angry

I know most people have heard of Threadless, but Naked & Angry, another skinnyCorp company, is lesser known. Here instead of t-shirts, you submit patterns for judging and scoring by users of the site. Then if ranked high enough, they…

An Amazing Resource

I’m so excited about this. Smashing Magazine recently put together a gigantic, reader-created gallery of background textures. Photos include wood, bark, fabric, sand and tons more. Best of all, they’re completely free to use for personal AND commercial use. Definitely…

Decisions Decisions

It was really difficult to narrow down the list of vendors for this weekend’s Renegade Craft Fair into a few top picks. With over 200 to choose from, I didn’t really know where to start. Hopefully I will get to…

Pattern Art & Julia Rothman

I love pattern art. I use it A LOT in my work—probably too much according to some people. But it’s one aspect of design that I really enjoy playing around with. I have not, however, mastered an easy way to…

Type Love 3: Scripts

Just as I declared yesterday T-shirt Wednesdays, today I’m doing the same for Type Love Thursdays. Since we are smack in the middle of wedding season—at least for me, I have about 10 coming up—here are some scripts I’m currently…

Area 2

I took a peek at this book in Barnes & Noble yesterday, and at around 450 pages, it is chock full of inspiration. Area 2 is pretty much a curated gallery show in book form, profiling the work of 100…

T-shirt Wednesdays

It seems I’m constantly coming across t-shirts I really like, so I figured I would share a couple current favorites with you every week on Wednesdays… Ticket to Ride at Threadless, $20 Sixpack France via Rumplo, $50

Bumble & Bumble

I love the typography-driven packaging for Bumble and Bumble hair products. I’m especially drawn to the scripts used for the Bb logo and product title. I had initially thought it was the same across the whole brand but when I…

iPhone eye candy

Poolga is a site where you can download artist and designer-created wallpapers for your iPhone for free. There’s a wide range of styles so it shouldn’t be difficult to find something you like. And they upload new designs every couple…

We tell stories

I just realized that this post didn’t publish when I told it to yesterday. So the whole “Speaking of Penguin” follow-up didn’t make much sense. Ah well, such is life. Here’s the original post… This website is amazing. I heard…

Speaking of Penguin…

I am coveting this newly-released set of James Bond novels. Not that I’m a particularly big James Bond fan, but the cover art alone is worth the purchase. I’m also obsessively drawn to things designed in sets or collections that…

2008 Logo Trends

Logo Lounge recently published their annual round up of current logo trends. Two of the overarching themes they noticed include the overall move toward more cleanliness as well as a “less is more” approach. Sounds good to me. Check out…

Eames Stamps!

Can’t wait to get my hands on these—only a couple more weeks til they go on sale (June 17th). We’ll see how quickly they sell out though… You can sign up here to keep up with any relevant news.

Hiphop-potamus vs. Rhymenocerous

I was disappointed to learn that the new season of Flight of the Conchords will be delayed until the fall because of the writers’ strike, but these new posters may tide me over. (Click the image for a larger view.)…

Progress

In honor of Barack Obama claiming the Democratic nomination, but without getting into too much political commentary, I thought I’d share this poster recently designed for the campaign. There’s been a huge influx of posters designed in support of Obama,…