Decisions Decisions
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, I didn’t really know where to start. Hopefully I will get to…
Weekend Plans
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 handmade and vintage items. Food vendors—including The Treats Truck!—will be there to provide snacks while…
Pattern Art & Julia Rothman
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 around with. I have not, however, mastered an easy way to…
Type Love 3: Scripts
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—at least for me, I have about 10 coming up—here are some scripts I’m currently…
Area 2
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 gallery show in book form, profiling the work of 100…
Lab Partners
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, which I love. They recently set up an etsy shop where they’ve been selling…
T-shirt Wednesdays
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… Ticket to Ride at Threadless, $20 Sixpack France via Rumplo, $50
Bumble & Bumble
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. I had initially thought it was the same across the whole brand but when I…
Leesa Leeva
I’m not sure how I came across Leesa Leva’s work initially, but I was recently reintroduced to it through Behance. She primarily works in watercolor and pencil which is something I haven’t seen very much of, especially not used in…
iPhone eye candy
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’t be difficult to find something you like. And they upload new designs every couple…
Hello Hello
Let’s start Monday off with the fun and colorful work of artist and illustrator Stephen Crowhurst. See more work at Hello Hello. via Design*Sponge
Shameless Self (sort of)-Promotion
If you haven’t heard of Woot, it’s a site that follows the “deal-a-day” format, where every day they put one product up for sale until it sells out. The success of this inital site led to the creation of wine.woot,…
We tell stories
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 well, such is life. Here’s the original post… This website is amazing. I heard…
Speaking of Penguin…
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 purchase. I’m also obsessively drawn to things designed in sets or collections that…
2008 Logo Trends
Logo Lounge recently published their annual round up of current logo trends. Two of the overarching themes they noticed include the overall move toward more cleanliness as well as a “less is more” approach. Sounds good to me. Check out…
Eames Stamps!
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 up here to keep up with any relevant news.
Hiphop-potamus vs. Rhymenocerous
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 new posters may tide me over. (Click the image for a larger view.)…
Dream In Color
This book—the first monograph on artist Lulu de Kwiatkowski—looks gorgeous. de Kwiatkowski is more well-known for her designer textile line, LULU DK; but this book features her colorful multimedia collages. See more of the book and/or purchase here or here.