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...
Courtney • 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...
Bumble & Bumble
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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...
Leesa Leeva
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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 ...
iPhone eye candy
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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 sh...
Hello Hello
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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*Spon...
Shameless Self (sort of)-Promotion
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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 sa...
We tell stories
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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...
Speaking of Penguin…
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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...
2008 Logo Trends
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Logo Lounge recently published their annual round up of current logo trends. Two of the overarching themes they noticed include the overall move towar...
Eames Stamps!
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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...
Hiphop-potamus vs. Rhymenocerous
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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 th...
Dream In Color
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This book—the first monograph on artist Lulu de Kwiatkowski—looks gorgeous. de Kwiatkowski is more well-known for her designer textile line, LULU ...
Progress
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In honor of Barack Obama claiming the Democratic nomination, but without getting into too much political commentary, I thought I’d share this po...
Gmund updates?
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Not sure how recently this happened, but I’m definitely psyched about it—Gmund paper finally has a brand new website. I had unsuccessfully att...
Chris Rubino
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By way of the Post Expose blog I heard about what sounds like a really cool exhibition by Chris Rubino, called “The Center of Something”. ...
It’s That Time Again…
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I love Threadless. (They’re on the cover of this month’s Inc. Magazine, by the way.) Even though their shirts aren’t always my style...
Post Expose
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I’ve been pretty excited about Post Expose since it opened, even though I’ve unfortunately not had a chance to get there yet. They’r...
Tall Tales
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Like I’ve said before, Duffy & Partners consistently produces great work. So I was excited to learn yesterday that they recently completed a...
Making the Impossible Possible
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Fortunately I got a chance to see Bill Strickland speak as the closing keynote for the HOW Conference. As a speaker and a person, he is truly inspirat...
Type Love 2: Parry and Parry Grotesque
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I subscribe to quite a few email newsletters, some of which are dedicated entirely to type. Yesterday I received the Font Shop newsletter highlighting...
Rumplo
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If you like well-designed t-shirts you should know about Rumplo. The description on their site reads as follows: Rumplo is a place to find brilliant a...
Ampersandland
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Full poster can be seen below I love working with ampersands whenever I get the chance. So when I came across this blog dedicated entirely to the glyp...
So Close…
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Last night I almost got into the Sex and the City premiere at Radio City Music Hall. Almost. By the time they told us they were out of seats I was pro...
Type Galore
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One of the highlights of the conference was the Type Director’s Club exhibit (TDC54) at the conference. I love the books cataloging these compet...
Marketing Mentor
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Another HOW Conference session I attended was “What it Takes to be Your Own Boss”, given by Ilise Benun of Marketing Mentor. I had previou...
Charles S. Anderson Design
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Another presenter I was really excited about was Charles Anderson. I love the look and feel of all the work that comes out of their studio, and I real...
The Design Catch 22
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Another session I was excited about was the one given by David Schimmel of And Partners here in New York. I’ve always admired their work so I wa...
A little Conference break for Font Bots
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These fun typographic illustrations from INVDR made the blog rounds a couple of weeks ago but I thought they’re still worth mentioning. I love t...
Another HOW Blog
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Just came across this blog via the Daily Monster. It covers a bunch of the sessions I didn’t get to see, so take a look....
Daily Monster
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Designer and Illustrator Stefan Bucher, of Daily Monster fame, gave a talk along with John Foster called “Arriving at Creativity”. The mos...
Behance
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Another one of Monday’s sessions I really enjoyed was given by Scott Belsky of Behance. For those of you that don’t know about the company...
Helpful Business Resources
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In Monday’s second session I attended “Financial Planning for Solo Designers” given by Shel Perkins, the author of Talent is Not Eno...
Joe Duffy: A Designed Life
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Monday morning’s session presented by Joe Duffy was one I was really looking forward to. I love the work that comes out of Duffy and Partners an...
Opening Night
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This past Sunday I headed into the Hynes for the opening Keynote address, given by Jeremy Gutsche of Trend Hunter Magazine, entitled “Creating a...
Apologies for the Slowness
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Well, I really did mean to have my HOW recaps up long before now, but I didn’t realize how much being at the conference would take out of me. It...
Inspiration Overload
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Well, the first full day of the HOW conference is over and it’s been awesome so far. I went to 4 really great sessions today and got my hands on...
Time for HOW!
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I’m currently back home in Boston, which is exciting because I haven’t been able to get here since Christmas. And as much as I love New Yo...
Type Love
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I have a bit of an obsession with type, and as a result keep a mile-long wishlist of typefaces I’d like to buy. If money were no object, I’...
Delicious Packaging
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Recently I was flipping through the latest Crate & Barrel catalog, and although I love their furniture and accessories, what stood out to me the m...
Hello!
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This blog has been in the works for quite awhile, so I’m really excited to be up and running. (Thanks to B for his web expertise!) To give you a...