Handwritten Typographers
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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...
Category: Design
Courtney • Type Love 7: Tisa and Atma
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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 a coup...
T-shirt Wednesdays
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 ultra ...
AIGA/Aquent Salary Survey
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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
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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 Awards (out of th...
T-shirt Wednesdays
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I couldn’t decide on just two this week… Field Study, $20 at Threadless Le Romantique, $20 at Threadless colorstorm, $20 at Design By Humans...
New-to-me Design Conferences
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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 coupl...
Present & Correct
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I’ve seen these letterpress Dish of the Day cards from Present & Correct around quite a bit lately, especially in the National Stationery Show coverag...
Fizzy Lizzy
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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
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Here’s a couple favorites from recent FontShop newsletters: Cosmiqua Com by Linotype (reminds me a lot of Filosofia, a constant favorite of mine) Loft...
Beautiful
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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 hanging a po...
Fun Site, Unfortunate Name
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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
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New stationery products from Nantaka Joy (of Oh Joy! fame) are now available online. See more and shop here. “Noted”, Grey Ombre Notebook, $13.50 A No...
T-shirt Wednesdays
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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 ridiculously so. Co...
Vintage Goodness
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Here’s an awesome collection of vintage bottlecaps on Flickr. For such small objects—that many would consider insignificant—most of them are pretty so...
CreativeTechs
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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 really: “left br...
Type Love 4: Soho and Dederon Sans
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What I’m liking this week… Soho at Fontshop Dederon Sans at Suitcase Type...
New York Magazine
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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 l...
Alice Chocolate
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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 this ...
T-shirt Wednesdays
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Greenpeace, $20 at Design by Humans Savoir, about $50 at Sixpack France via Rumplo...
Paula Scher and the Public Theater
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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. Her work for P...
Speaking of CSA…
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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 organizin...
Naked & Angry
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I know most people have heard of Threadless, but Naked & Angry, another skinnyCorp company, is lesser known. Here instead of t-shirts, you submit patt...
Fun Book Jacket Designs
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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
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I’m so excited about this. Smashing Magazine recently put together a gigantic, reader-created gallery of background textures. Photos include wood, bar...
Strawberry Shortcake gets a cell phone?
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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 bag, and...
Decisions Decisions
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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, ...
Pattern Art & Julia Rothman
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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 ar...
Type Love 3: Scripts
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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—...
Area 2
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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 gall...
T-shirt Wednesdays
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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…...
Bumble & Bumble
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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...
iPhone eye candy
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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’...
We tell stories
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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 wel...
Speaking of Penguin…
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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 purch...
2008 Logo Trends
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Logo Lounge recently published their annual round up of current logo trends. Two of the overarching themes they noticed include the overall move towar...
Eames Stamps!
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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...
Hiphop-potamus vs. Rhymenocerous
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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 ne...
Progress
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In honor of Barack Obama claiming the Democratic nomination, but without getting into too much political commentary, I thought I’d share this poster r...
Gmund updates?
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Not sure how recently this happened, but I’m definitely psyched about it—Gmund paper finally has a brand new website. I had unsuccessfully attempted t...
Chris Rubino
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By way of the Post Expose blog I heard about what sounds like a really cool exhibition by Chris Rubino, called “The Center of Something”. The show ope...
It’s That Time Again…
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I love Threadless. (They’re on the cover of this month’s Inc. Magazine, by the way.) Even though their shirts aren’t always my style, I usually take a...
Post Expose
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I’ve been pretty excited about Post Expose since it opened, even though I’ve unfortunately not had a chance to get there yet. They’re a screen printin...
Tall Tales
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Like I’ve said before, Duffy & Partners consistently produces great work. So I was excited to learn yesterday that they recently completed an identity...
Type Love 2: Parry and Parry Grotesque
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I subscribe to quite a few email newsletters, some of which are dedicated entirely to type. Yesterday I received the Font Shop newsletter highlighting...
Rumplo
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If you like well-designed t-shirts you should know about Rumplo. The description on their site reads as follows: Rumplo is a place to find brilliant a...
Ampersandland
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Full poster can be seen below I love working with ampersands whenever I get the chance. So when I came across this blog dedicated entirely to the glyp...
Type Galore
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One of the highlights of the conference was the Type Director’s Club exhibit (TDC54) at the conference. I love the books cataloging these competitions...
Marketing Mentor
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Another HOW Conference session I attended was “What it Takes to be Your Own Boss”, given by Ilise Benun of Marketing Mentor. I had previously attended...
Charles S. Anderson Design
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Another presenter I was really excited about was Charles Anderson. I love the look and feel of all the work that comes out of their studio, and I real...
The Design Catch 22
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Another session I was excited about was the one given by David Schimmel of And Partners here in New York. I’ve always admired their work so I was exci...
A little Conference break for Font Bots
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These fun typographic illustrations from INVDR made the blog rounds a couple of weeks ago but I thought they’re still worth mentioning. I love the pla...
Another HOW Blog
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Just came across this blog via the Daily Monster. It covers a bunch of the sessions I didn’t get to see, so take a look....
Helpful Business Resources
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In Monday’s second session I attended “Financial Planning for Solo Designers” given by Shel Perkins, the author of Talent is Not Enough: Business Secr...
Joe Duffy: A Designed Life
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Monday morning’s session presented by Joe Duffy was one I was really looking forward to. I love the work that comes out of Duffy and Partners and I wa...