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...
Category: Design
Courtney • 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...
Opening Night
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This past Sunday I headed into the Hynes for the opening Keynote address, given by Jeremy Gutsche of Trend Hunter Magazine, entitled “Creating a Cultu...
Apologies for the Slowness
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Well, I really did mean to have my HOW recaps up long before now, but I didn’t realize how much being at the conference would take out of me. It was a...
Inspiration Overload
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Well, the first full day of the HOW conference is over and it’s been awesome so far. I went to 4 really great sessions today and got my hands on tons ...
Time for HOW!
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I’m currently back home in Boston, which is exciting because I haven’t been able to get here since Christmas. And as much as I love New York, Boston w...
Type Love
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I have a bit of an obsession with type, and as a result keep a mile-long wishlist of typefaces I’d like to buy. If money were no object, I’d own all o...
Delicious Packaging
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Recently I was flipping through the latest Crate & Barrel catalog, and although I love their furniture and accessories, what stood out to me the most ...
Hello!
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This blog has been in the works for quite awhile, so I’m really excited to be up and running. (Thanks to B for his web expertise!) To give you a littl...
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