A Little Letterpress Goodness
Back when I worked at Boxcar, I used to make the plates for Studio on Fire, a Minneapolis-based letterpress shop. I really liked their work, so over t...
Category: Design
Type Love 9: Village
Spotlight on village, and a couple of the typefaces they’ve released so far this year. Giorgio Stag...
T-shirt Wednesdays
A couple of type tees coming a little bit late today… Make it Happen, $16 at Oath Threadline via Rumplo Sad Songs Make Me Happy, $25 at The Quie...
My Dream House
Some good family friends recently had their newly finished house published as the cover story in the July/August issue of New England Home. I haven...
Motivate Prints
I need a couple of these for my office. 4 print series by Orange Beautiful, available right here for $12 individually or $40 for the set....
John Dilnot
While at the Curiosity Shoppe last month I purchased a couple of cards by John Dilnot, who I hadn’t heard of before. He has a lot of other great...
Be Kind, Design
I know it’s not Wednesday but I meant to post this link last week. The latest from Design is Mine‘s Summer is available in her new etsy sh...
Starbucks Vivanno
I’m a bit of a Starbucks addict—when it comes to their drinks and their design. I’m always tempted to buy a bag of their coffee just for...
Design Freebies
Summer, of Design is Mine, just started a new blog that will compile all of the great design freebies available online in one place. Such an awesome i...
Insound 20
Jason Munn of the Small Stakes—one of my favorite poster designers—just completed a collaboration with Insound consisting of 20 images for 20 diff...
Type Love 8: YWFT
You Work For Them has some display typefaces, that would be great if you had the right project… Paul Bunyan Tapscott Flirt...
Madwell 1937
I really like the site design for Madewell 1937, J. Crew’s sister brand. The clothes are displayed in a fun way, but what I really enjoy is the ...
T-shirt Wednesdays
A couple of DBH favorites for the week: Gimme gimme gimme, $20 at Design by Humans Robocycle, $20 at Design by Humans...
New and Improved Veer
I recently received an email from Veer announcing all sorts of improvements they’ve made to their Ideas section. On top of being a prime source ...
The Process Behind the Poster
Awhile ago I wrote about this poster designed for Barack Obama by Scott Hansen of ISO50. Here he outlines the complicated process in detail. Pretty co...
Smock
Several years ago while at Syracuse, I was lucky enough to work part time at Boxcar Press. If you know letterpress at all, you know Boxcar. In additio...
Old School
“The “Old School” theme will celebrate the aesthetics of twentieth century education through an art exhibition and companion book, a...
Helvetica Hoodies!
I love this hoodie! (Especially the black one with pink letters, super girly I know.) And it’s even cooler that all the letters are individually...
Some Packaging Eye Candy
Here’s some smart, clean and functional packaging from BVD out of Stockholm. They also have some great identity work, see that here. I also real...
Harmonie interieure Prints
I became obsessed with these typographic designs when I saw them on the Graphic Exchange last fall. And I hadn’t visited the main site in awhile...
My Secret Playlist
Next Tuesday Lost at E Minor will be launching what promises to be a really cool email newsletter. Every week a different guest musician will compile ...
Handwritten Typographers
Cameron Adams over at The Man in Blue put together a really fun post that showcases the handwriting of several prominent typographers. See Sebastian L...
Type Love 7: Tisa and Atma
FontShop does it again, with another great newsletter this week. I’m always on the lookout for a friendly text weight serif family, so here are ...
T-shirt Wednesdays
Spotlight on Campfire Goods From the 50 States series, $20 right here From the City series, $20 right here...
I Wish I Had More Wall Space
Yesterday I discovered another blog (via Uppercase) dedicated solely to posters and prints. Not that I need another blog to add to my list, but from w...
The Heads of State Site Redesign
One of the many growing collections in my apartment is screen-printed show posters. We have quite a few of them, designed by various artists for sever...
The Daily Heller
For awhile now, design aficionado Steven Heller has been writing a column for the online version of Print Magazine where he posts short design-related...
HOW Conference mp3s Available
The HOW Conference site has posted mp3s of most of the 2008 sessions. You can download single sessions for $15 and workshops for $19, or you can get t...
Type Love 6: Freight and Omnes
Freight Display by Joshua Darden (Love the italic forms in particular, shown below.) Omnes also by Joshua Darden (I’m especially a fan of these ...
AIGA/Aquent Salary Survey
AIGA has released the results of their 2008 Salary Survey. Download your copy here. Or you can also find more details and a salary calculator right he...
In the Heights
This is not entirely design-related but this past weekend I got to see the Broadway show, “In the Heights”, which just won four Tony Award...
T-shirt Wednesdays
I couldn’t decide on just two this week… Field Study, $20 at Threadless Le Romantique, $20 at Threadless colorstorm, $20 at Design By Huma...
New-to-me Design Conferences
I had such a good experience at the HOW Conference this year, that I’d like to try to attend conferences more often. And I recently read about a...
Present & Correct
I’ve seen these letterpress Dish of the Day cards from Present & Correct around quite a bit lately, especially in the National Stationery Sh...
Fizzy Lizzy
I noticed Fizzy Lizzy on the vendor list for the Renegade Craft Fair but I didn’t actually see them there. Love the design and packaging....
Type Love 5: Cosmiqua Com and Loft
Here’s a couple favorites from recent FontShop newsletters: Cosmiqua Com by Linotype (reminds me a lot of Filosofia, a constant favorite of mine...
Beautiful
I know, I know, more Obama stuff. But I am in love with this image, so I couldn’t resist. I know i said before that I’d be hesitant about ...
Fun Site, Unfortunate Name
Image from Mr. Wright This site compiles all of the graphics and imagery created in support of Barack Obama, which is pretty awesome to see all in one...
New from Nantaka Joy
New stationery products from Nantaka Joy (of Oh Joy! fame) are now available online. See more and shop here. “Noted”, Grey Ombre Notebook,...
T-shirt Wednesdays
I must admit that sometimes I’m a complete sucker for cute. And this Threadless shirt (while I’m not sure I’d actually wear it) is r...
Vintage Goodness
Here’s an awesome collection of vintage bottlecaps on Flickr. For such small objects—that many would consider insignificant—most of them are...
CreativeTechs
If you’re a Mac user and you haven’t yet heard of CreativeTechs, you should check out their site immediately. The tagline says it all real...
Type Love 4: Soho and Dederon Sans
What I’m liking this week… Soho at Fontshop Dederon Sans at Suitcase Type...
New York Magazine
When I receive my copy of New York Magazine every week, there is always some aspect of the design I really like (online as well—love this logo). The...
Alice Chocolate
I love all things Alice and Wonderland (especially this 80’s TV version, which I know some people find pretty creepy.) So I immediately fell for...
T-shirt Wednesdays
Greenpeace, $20 at Design by Humans Savoir, about $50 at Sixpack France via Rumplo...
Paula Scher and the Public Theater
It’s no surprise that I’m a huge fan of Paula Scher. She is a legend in the design industry who has had an extremely successful career. He...
Speaking of CSA…
Awhile ago I promised I’d show you some of the paper promotions I received at the HOW Conference, and of course I just finally got around to org...
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 ...
Fun Book Jacket Designs
CSA Images added a gallery showcasing book jacket designs that feature their images. Some really cool stuff there, especially the ones below....
An Amazing Resource
I’m so excited about this. Smashing Magazine recently put together a gigantic, reader-created gallery of background textures. Photos include woo...
Strawberry Shortcake gets a cell phone?
Now you have to understand, I was one of those girls who grew up with Strawberry Shortcake in the 80’s. I had a Strawberry Shortcake sleeping ba...
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 ...
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 pl...
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 s...
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 ...
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 Wedne...
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...
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 sh...
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...