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...
Courtney • 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,...
Jordan Domont
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I first came across the illustration work of Jordon Domont in the current issue of HOW. I noticed his portraits in the table of contents and immediate...
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 r...
Apologies
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So sorry for the slow posting the last few days—I’ve been in San Francisco on vacation. I have lots to catch up on and plenty of posts to put ...
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...
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 real...
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...
“Air Travel Sucks, or Why I Love New York”
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Considering I am 1) a New Yorker, and 2) leaving for a trip to San Francisco tomorrow morning, I found this article especially amusing and appropriate...
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...
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...
Bonjour Mon Coussin
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Really fun pillow designs from Bonjour Mon Coussin, out of—where else—France. 1. Windy, 2. Papier, 3. Macarons, 4. Plan, 5. Numero, 6. Alphakids, ...
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. He...
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 org...
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 ...
Evgeny Parfenov Illustration
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I really love the style of this work. A Moscow-based illustrator, Parfenov uses a highly stylized technique that still lends itself to pretty realisti...
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....
Renegade Update
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So unfortunately I don’t really have any pictures from Renegade on Sunday. The weather was not so great—glad I remembered an umbrella—but th...
Animal Print Madness
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Fun, whimsical animal prints from photographer, Catherine Ledner. Of course, I especially love them because of the vibrant wallpaper backdrops. There ...
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 woo...
Sete Dias
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There isn’t really any background information on this visual blog so I’m not entirely sure about the thought behind it; but the work is re...
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 ba...
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 ...
Weekend Plans
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This weekend I’ll be hitting up the 4th annual Renegade Craft Fair at the McCarren Park Pool in Brooklyn. Over 200 vendors will be selling handm...
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 pl...
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 s...
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 ...
Lab Partners
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I’ve been following the work of San Francisco-based Lab Partners for a few months now. Their style is both modern and retro at the same time, wh...
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 Wedne...