Gift Guide: Earth
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From Wikipedia: Earth Signs: Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn— Earth represents one’s material resources, environment and possessions. The Earth s...
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From Wikipedia: Air Signs: Gemini, Libra, and Aquarius— Air represents the intellect and one’s ability to reason and communicate. The Air sign...
Gift Guide: Fire
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From Wikipedia: Fire Signs: Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius— Fire represents one’s desires and creative energies. The Fire signs are associated wi...
It’s That Time of Year Again Part 2
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I came across a few more gift fairs to add to the list, so I wanted to give you an update. A couple of them are only happening this weekend—sorry fo...
New from Olio United
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T-shirt Wednesdays
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This week: typography and infographics, plus awesome holiday sales. Ugmonk is offering 10% off your entire purchase through December 10th (use code GI...
T-shirt Wednesdays
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These shirts from Collapse Design are perfect for the type geek in your life. Sex Drugs Helvetica Bold, about $22. Also comes in red. Your Type Makes ...
It’s That Time of Year Again
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I’m starting to put all the New York area gift fairs on my calendar, so I figured I would round them up for all of you. Here’s what I have...
Homage to the Stamp
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I was lucky enough to pick up one of Gavin Potenza‘s letterpress prints, “Homage to the Stamp”, at Tiny Showcase last week. As with ...
MWM Graphics Calendar
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Four 18″ x 12″ posters featuring 3 months each—purchase yours for $85 right here. via Design You Trust...
T-shirt Wednesdays
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Here are a couple of fun shirt designs from La Fraise. Not sure how crazy I am about the dogs modeling the shirts but I love the designs. Creativity W...
T-shirt Wednesdays
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Here to Make Friends, about $40.25 at A Number of Small Things...
Egg Press Sale
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In case you we’rent aware Egg Press is having sale on their 2009 calendars. Get 25% off both the letterpress and offset versions right here....
I Took the Handmade Pledge
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Yet Another Calendar to Add to the List
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Check out this 2009 wall calendar designed by Mar Hernández, otherwise known as Malota. You can purchase your own copy right here for €15 plus s...
T-shirt Wednesdays
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Not necessarily a shirt I would wear, but definitely one that led to another illustrator discovery. Check out a couple more examples below and/or the ...
Tragic Sunshine
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I’m loving these poster designs by illustrator Kevin Tong....
T-shirt Wednesdays
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If you haven’t heard of TeeFury, you’re missing out. The way it works is similar to Shirt.Woot. They sell one limited edition t-shirt per ...
A Few Paper n Stitch Favorites
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Paper n Stitch is an online exhibition that is curated monthly and features a wide variety of handmade items from artists all over the world. It’...
Encore
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I loved Stuart Kolakovic’s work so much that I had to share a bit more… Check out these awesome nickel cufflinks. A bargain at $30 a set, they...
A Year of Hand-drawn Type
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I immediately bought this Beau Ideal 2009 calendar when I saw it on Oatmeal and Cinnamon. Screenprinted in a limited edition of 50, each month depicts...
T-shirt Wednesdays
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The Ampersand Shoppe has made the blog rounds over the last couple of weeks but I couldn’t not mention it. You can choose your ampersand from 10...
new Eclectonotes!
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I have always been a fan of the Eclecto series by Janine Vangool of Uppercase, so it’s no surprise that I love the new versions she released las...
The Design Entrepreneur
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I came across this book while browsing in Barnes and Noble a few weeks ago, but wasn’t able to find any information about it online. So I was ex...
Design + Babies
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I have seen so much great design for babies lately. Well, I guess it’s all really geared towards their modern parents, but everything baby-relat...
Hoefler for America
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Over the summer Jonathan Hoefler was comissioned to create a poster for the Obama campaign, and it is now available on the beautifully designed Obama ...
H is for Hannah
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I love this collection that ceramic designer Hannah Morrow recently wrote to tell me about. The playful and fun stickers collection is available in th...
T-shirt Wednesdays
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It’s been a little while since I posted anything from Threadless and I really like this recent design. Seems sort of apropos considering we̵...
T-shirt Wednesdays
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I’m not really a huge fan of American Apparel, mostly because of their ridiculous advertising, but I have to admit these new shirts are pretty c...
Nina Chakrabarti & Cowshed
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Nina Chakrabarti is the artist behind the beautiful pattern designs of Cowshed products’ packaging. I wish I had the room to display the entire ...
T-shirt Wednesdays
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Here are a couple of shirts that caught my eye in the Graniph new arrivals. Unfortunately, they cannot ship outside of Japan at the moment due to site...
Studs
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I wear small stud earrings pretty much daily, so lately I’ve been on an etsy mission to find some new and different ones. I was overwhelmed with...
Nonsek
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I read on LogoLounge yesterday that well-known design firm, Planet Propaganda, just launched an online shop, Nonsek. Selling two lines of designer tee...
Lou and Lee
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If only I could wear these ridiculously adorable items from Lou and Lee myself… Carnival hydrangea headband, $13 Rosemary red and felt cameo one...
A Guide to Fifty-nine Fields
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Tiny Showcase released the second print in their learning series last night. This time, artist Nigel Peake created an oversized poster featuring highl...
T-shirt Wednesdays
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Common Threadz offers limited edition, artist-designed t-shirts that make a difference. For every shirt you buy, they will donate a school uniform to ...
Tavis Coburn
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According to Telegramme Prints, Tavis Coburn’s unique retro-looking work is influenced by 1940s comic book art, the Russian avant-garde movement...
2009 Calendar Wishlist Part 2
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For some reason the calendar selection seems to be better than ever this year. (And starting earlier than ever, as well.) So here are a few more IR...
Giants!
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Love this series (especially the color palette) by Pietari Posti, an ongoing personal project that currently includes 11 images. Hopefully he will eve...
T-shirt Wednesdays
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For some reason I’ve never set foot inside a Brooklyn Industries store, but I might have to make a point to now that I’ve discovered these...
Solid Gold
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This fallish weather is putting in the mood for warm metallics. So here are a few favorites I found on etsy recently. substudio Hinge Series, $12 for ...
Target in the City!
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Image from Apartment Therapy Maybe this is old news, but I just found out—Target will be opening a few “Bullseye Bodegas” around the cit...
T-shirt Wednesdays
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This week I came across Ugmonk, a new site whose mission is “to provide high-quality products with simple, yet fresh graphics”. They curre...
Opposites Attract
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I’m definitely putting these geometric notecard sets from Sycamore Street Press on my wishlist. Aside from the fun line drawings adorning each c...
T-shirt Wednesdays
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A couple of miscellaneous shirts I’ve seen in the last week or so (coming a little late today). Not much of a theme this time around, but fun sh...
L2 Test Prints
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Here are some really cool test prints by L/2 Design Collective. As with all test prints, the design is random, but you can choose the final layer imag...
Yet another thing to add to my Etsy wishlist…
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The typography geek in me is in love with these paper products from Peep Paper. They have such a perfect tagline: “Handmade stuff for letter lov...
2009 Calendar Wishlist
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Lately I’ve seen quite a few posts about 2009 calendar options. And although I mostly feel it’s a little bit early, I can’t help but...
Life of Mystery
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I absolutely love this idea: “Tiny Showcase Presents the first in a new series of mildly factual, mostly fictitious, educational posters — Our...
Old School Favorites
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Check out more gallery images on Flickr Uppercase Gallery’s Old School exhibition finally opened last week in Calgary. If you’re like me a...
T-shirt Wednesdays
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A couple Threadless faves for the week. They’re also have a massive back to school sale—all shirts are $12. Check out what’s available r...
2009 IKEA Picks
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I just (excitedly) received my copy of the 2009 IKEA catalog the other day. So here are my picks from their new offerings. Hopefully I’ll be pic...
Wow.
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I’ve always been inspired by the work of Why Not Associates. But these two recent projects blew me away. I’ve definitely never seen a scho...
Mike Perry for Studio Nommo
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This may be old news, but I love this wallpaper designed by Mike Perry for Studio Nommo. It looks amazing in that dining room....
Grow House, Grow!
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I came across these really fun hand-printed wallpaper designs, by Grow House, Grow!, in a recent issue of Time Out New York. I love that each of the d...
Wexner Center Totes
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I found these eco-friendly totes in the latest issue of Readymade. Handmade from banners used to promote previous Wexner Center exhibitions, all of th...
Mary
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New ASG edition print from Art School Girl for August, by Molly Carter. In case you haven’t heard of ASG editions, they produce a new limited ed...
Who Doesn’t Love an &?
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I know it’s not Wednesday but I couldn’t resist. Ampersand Tee, $26 from House Industries...
Over & Over
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I read about this new book from Mike Perry yesterday on Treasuring, and immediately placed an order. “Over & Over” follows the same fo...
T-Shirt Wednesdays
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This week I came across new t-shirt site built on the Threadless model, itself. All of their shirts are printed in limited edition, with a maximum of ...