One Click Leads to Another
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The other day I was pointed to the Flickr account of Alejandro Paul by simple song. Paul is the type designer behind Feel Script and one of the founde...
Courtney • Helen Dardik
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I’ve been following Hellen Dardik’s blog for a little while now, so that I can keep up with her bright, playful pattern designs. She defin...
Color Happy
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I first saw this piece by Damien Correll—Number One Fanclub—quite awhile ago, but was reminded again recently when I was alerted to his site updat...
Great Ideas Volume III
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Yet another beautiful set of book designs from Penguin’s Great Ideas series, many of them by David Pearson. It reminds you how much can be done ...
Obama Buttons
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Fun buttons from type foundry, village. Pick up a set right here for $10....
Critter Quest
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San Francisco Zoo. According to the Zoo’s site, posters are scattered around the city that allow you to transform yourself into 10 different ani...
A Little Letterpress Goodness
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Back when I worked at Boxcar, I used to make the plates for Studio on Fire, a Minneapolis-based letterpress shop. I really liked their work, so over t...
Type Love 9: Village
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Spotlight on village, and a couple of the typefaces they’ve released so far this year. Giorgio Stag...
T-shirt Wednesdays
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A couple of type tees coming a little bit late today… Make it Happen, $16 at Oath Threadline via Rumplo Sad Songs Make Me Happy, $25 at The Quie...
My Dream House
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Some good family friends recently had their newly finished house published as the cover story in the July/August issue of New England Home. I haven...
Little Friends of Printmaking
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Poster artists, LFOP, have a unique style that’s instantly recognizable. Their website is in the process of being updated, but for now you can b...
Motivate Prints
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I need a couple of these for my office. 4 print series by Orange Beautiful, available right here for $12 individually or $40 for the set....
John Dilnot
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While at the Curiosity Shoppe last month I purchased a couple of cards by John Dilnot, who I hadn’t heard of before. He has a lot of other great...
Agency Rush
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Creative Visual Agency, Agency Rush, (formerly Zeegan Rush), is a really great place to browse. Here a few of the artists I really enjoyed. Crush Akar...
Be Kind, Design
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I know it’s not Wednesday but I meant to post this link last week. The latest from Design is Mine‘s Summer is available in her new etsy sh...
Starbucks Vivanno
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I’m a bit of a Starbucks addict—when it comes to their drinks and their design. I’m always tempted to buy a bag of their coffee just for...
Design Freebies
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Summer, of Design is Mine, just started a new blog that will compile all of the great design freebies available online in one place. Such an awesome i...
Insound 20
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Jason Munn of the Small Stakes—one of my favorite poster designers—just completed a collaboration with Insound consisting of 20 images for 20 diff...
Type Love 8: YWFT
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You Work For Them has some display typefaces, that would be great if you had the right project… Paul Bunyan Tapscott Flirt...
Madwell 1937
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I really like the site design for Madewell 1937, J. Crew’s sister brand. The clothes are displayed in a fun way, but what I really enjoy is the ...
New Audrey Kawasaki Print
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“If Only You Were Here”, a new print by Audrey Kawasaki, will go on sale July 19th at 1pm PST. Move fast if you’re interested, they ...
T-shirt Wednesdays
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A couple of DBH favorites for the week: Gimme gimme gimme, $20 at Design by Humans Robocycle, $20 at Design by Humans...
Thanks MStetson!
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I just found out that dwl was added to MStetson’s blog accomplices section (in the right sidebar)! I’m completely flattered—we are in ex...
Vernacular Typography Polaroids
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Douglas Wilson takes polaroids of various found typography—mostly hand-painted signage. Click here to see the full (huge) set. via TypeNeu...
New and Improved Veer
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I recently received an email from Veer announcing all sorts of improvements they’ve made to their Ideas section. On top of being a prime source ...
The Process Behind the Poster
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Awhile ago I wrote about this poster designed for Barack Obama by Scott Hansen of ISO50. Here he outlines the complicated process in detail. Pretty co...
Kehinde Wiley
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I read about extremely talented painter, Kehinde Wiley, in a recent issue of Time Out New York, which you can check out right here. And I immediately ...
Smock
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Several years ago while at Syracuse, I was lucky enough to work part time at Boxcar Press. If you know letterpress at all, you know Boxcar. In additio...
Old School
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“The “Old School” theme will celebrate the aesthetics of twentieth century education through an art exhibition and companion book, a...
Alberto Seveso
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The work of Italian designer and illustrator, Alberto Seveso, completely blew me away. His style is very different from my own, so the layering in his...
Helvetica Hoodies!
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I love this hoodie! (Especially the black one with pink letters, super girly I know.) And it’s even cooler that all the letters are individually...
Some Packaging Eye Candy
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Here’s some smart, clean and functional packaging from BVD out of Stockholm. They also have some great identity work, see that here. I also real...
Harmonie interieure Prints
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I became obsessed with these typographic designs when I saw them on the Graphic Exchange last fall. And I hadn’t visited the main site in awhile...
My Secret Playlist
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Next Tuesday Lost at E Minor will be launching what promises to be a really cool email newsletter. Every week a different guest musician will compile ...
Handwritten Typographers
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Cameron Adams over at The Man in Blue put together a really fun post that showcases the handwriting of several prominent typographers. See Sebastian L...
Type Love 7: Tisa and Atma
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FontShop does it again, with another great newsletter this week. I’m always on the lookout for a friendly text weight serif family, so here are ...
New from Thomas Paul
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I caught these new Thomas Paul stationery products via the See Jane Work newsletter last night. Fun. Check out everything that’s available right...
San Francisco Shops: What I found, Part 2/2
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While I was checking out some of the shops I had on my list I ended up stumbling upon a few others that are definitely worth visiting when in the area...
T-shirt Wednesdays
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Spotlight on Campfire Goods From the 50 States series, $20 right here From the City series, $20 right here...
San Francisco: Vaillancourt Fountain
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After checking out the Ferry Building we stumbled upon this really amazing public artwork at the Embarcadero Center. After doing a little bit of resea...
I Wish I Had More Wall Space
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Yesterday I discovered another blog (via Uppercase) dedicated solely to posters and prints. Not that I need another blog to add to my list, but from w...
San Francisco Shops: What I Found, Part 1/2
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While I was checking out some of the shops I had on my list I ended up stumbling upon a few others that are definitely worth visiting when in the area...
The Heads of State Site Redesign
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One of the many growing collections in my apartment is screen-printed show posters. We have quite a few of them, designed by various artists for sever...
Apologies for the Down Time
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Unfortunately you may have noticed this site has been in and out today. As a result (of this and several other problems we’ve been having with a...
The Daily Heller
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For awhile now, design aficionado Steven Heller has been writing a column for the online version of Print Magazine where he posts short design-related...
San Francisco Shops: What I Saw
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For quite awhile I had been compiling a list of the San Francisco shops that I wanted to visit. I didn’t get to all of them, unfortunately, but ...
HOW Conference mp3s Available
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The HOW Conference site has posted mp3s of most of the 2008 sessions. You can download single sessions for $15 and workshops for $19, or you can get t...
A Little Housekeeping
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Just wanted to give a quick update on a few small changes that were made around here over the weekend—nothing drastic, mainly small organizational c...
Dee and Lala
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Here’s some really fun letterpressed stationery from Dee and Lala. Love the illustrations, especially the whales....
Happy Weekend and Updates
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Hope everyone has a great fourth of July. I’ll be at Yankee Stadium tomorrow cheering on the Red Sox. (Yeah yeah, I know, I live in New York. Bu...
Fabric Goodness
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I’ve mentioned before how much I love pattern art, so naturally I’m drawn to patterned fabrics. I’m definitely not an expert, but on...
Type Love 6: Freight and Omnes
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Freight Display by Joshua Darden (Love the italic forms in particular, shown below.) Omnes also by Joshua Darden (I’m especially a fan of these ...
AIGA/Aquent Salary Survey
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AIGA has released the results of their 2008 Salary Survey. Download your copy here. Or you can also find more details and a salary calculator right he...
In the Heights
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This is not entirely design-related but this past weekend I got to see the Broadway show, “In the Heights”, which just won four Tony Award...
T-shirt Wednesdays
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I couldn’t decide on just two this week… Field Study, $20 at Threadless Le Romantique, $20 at Threadless colorstorm, $20 at Design By Huma...
New-to-me Design Conferences
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I had such a good experience at the HOW Conference this year, that I’d like to try to attend conferences more often. And I recently read about a...
San Francisco: Cornerstone Place
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While driving up to Napa and looking for something to eat we stumbled upon Cornerstone Place in Sonoma. It turned out that their cafe was undergoing r...
5 Questions with Wayne Geyer
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One of the HOW Conference presentations I really enjoyed was “Write More Good: Copywriting for Visual Thinkers” with Wayne Geyer. A design...
Leesa Leva shop open!
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Check it out here....
Present & Correct
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I’ve seen these letterpress Dish of the Day cards from Present & Correct around quite a bit lately, especially in the National Stationery Sh...