Last week Kate Spade launched a new site, the new color of the month—yellow—and a new video collaboration, this time with Mother New York. Core77 announced a new awards competition. I came across two great sets of typographic photos: a…
Did you catch Brent Couchman’s posts on Friends of Type last week? A-maz-ing. If you’re a cat person you will love Meow Doodle, a “collection of drawings, doodles and sketches by designers and illustrators of their cats.” Explorations in Typography…
Yet another reason I neeeed an iPad: Suitcase Type’s new app, Type Specimen. Kyle Tezak released two pieces from his Four Icon Challenge series—The Life Aquatic and The Big Lebowski—as prints. Pick them up right here. In other poster news,…
Here’s a short and sweet edition of Quick Links for Presidents’ Day. If you’re lucky enough to have a day off today, enjoy! Check out this behind-the-scenes video of the production of the artwork for “Italian Design is Coming Home.”…
Up There is a lovely short documentary about the art of hand-painted advertising. This process amazes me; and I feel incredibly lucky that I’m able to witness some of the last examples of the art form in action here in…
For the next issue of Uppercase Magazine, over 40 letterpress printers have contributed samples of their work. Each issue will include one sample chosen at random, and a select few subscribers will receive a sampler pack of the whole set.…
Good Reads: The Typographic Monotony of American Retail, Should Designers’ Business Cards Be Designed?, Be Who You Are. I get asked how to find work relatively often, so I will now be referring all future inquiries to Jessica Hische’s How…
Good Reads: Whiteboard Accounting, Creative Workplace Safety, Lab Rat: Do Your “Most Important” Tast First. Pork and Jeans is a collection of random type drawings by Brad Simon. According to artist Karen Kurycki, Absurd Overheard—where she illustrates bits from overheard…
In case you missed it, Should I work for Free is a new—and useful—infographic by Jessica Hische. Loving the new sites for Creative Mornings and CSA Design. I will definitely be pre-ordering the new Live Now book by Eric Smith.…
Good Reads: 30 Steps to Mastery, How to Get Paid What You’re Worth, In-depth: Comedy Central Re-brand, The Six by André Mora. What do you think of Starbucks recent brand evolution? Last week PSFK published a great write-up on the…
Happy New Year everyone!! We had a nice relaxing break, so I hope you all got to enjoy some time off as well. Now that we’ve had some time to step away, we’re really excited to get back to work…
Have you seen Jeff Bridges’ site? If not, check it out. I was completely shocked and amazed by his hand-drawn type and illustrations. who knew? Krisatomic pulled together an amazing set of photos of Iceland that left me itching to…
Need some last minute gifts? Here are a few great guides: The 99 Percent, grain edit, Swiss Legacy, FormFiftyFive. Check out Skinny Ships’ Top Ten Albums of 2010. In case you missed it, idsgn recently featured interviews with eight of…
Good Reads: Getting Creative Things Done, Lernert & Sander: It’s Time to Leave Your Comfort Zone, 10: Time and Movement in Book Design, Grid Systems: Calculate grids for layouts in InDesign with the help of the Easy Grid Calculator. Helpful…
Normally this would be a light posting week since we have Thanksgiving on Thursday. However, because I didn’t get everything up as planned last week, you’ve lucked out. I have several posts scheduled to go up each day this week,…
Good reads: Inside Jonathan Safran Foers “Unmakeable” Interactive Book, Design Porn: Impressive Typographical Tattoos Matt Jacobs made a bookmarklet that will lead you to the colophon of any site using Typekit. Pretty awesome useful if you’re curious about which web…
Blockhead is a pixel-based drawing app for the iPhone. Quite possibly the coolest/cutest group costume ever. Really looking forward to seeing The Influencers. Taking Place is an interactive exhibit in Amsterdam that changes and develops by patrons marking their heights…
Self-explanatory: icantfindmyphone.com Myspace Goes Blank Good Reads: CMS’s Party in Front…, An Interview with Sagi Haviv, The Most Important Question in Any Creative Brief Get one of Marian Bantjes’s new prints, Now, on 20×200 before they sell out! Good Fucking…
