Monday Quick Links: 11.28.11
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Happy Monday readers! I hope everyone in the States had a great holiday! I know I’m feeling reenergized and ready to make the next month an extr...
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Courtney • Etsy Finds: Wrap Round-up
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Without a doubt, the minute I launch the gift guide every year I come across more items I would have loved to include, so I’ll be sharing them h...
Monday Quick Links: 11.21.11
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Shoebox by 1000 Memories presents How to Go Home, A Survival Guide to Life During the Holidays, featuring illustrations by Patrick Long. Alan Segama j...
2011 Holiday Gift Guide
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Open publication – Free publishing – More design Without further adieu, I present to you the 2011 Holiday Gift Guide—better late then ne...
2011 Gift Guide Update
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Hi readers! Just wanted to give you all a quick update on the 2011 DWL Gift Guide. The Guide will launch a bit earlier this year, on this Friday, Nove...
Hello! Lucky Holiday Card Collaborations
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Along with a newly designed website, San Francisco-based stationery design shop Hello! Lucky recently launched a series of fantastic custom holiday ca...
Sharon Montrose: Menagerie
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Feast your eyes on Menagerie, a new book from animal portrait extraordinaire Sharon Montrose. A collection of Sharon’s photographs and design v...
Amanda Jane Jones: Year in Review
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I’m always waiting way too late in the year to start planning out my holiday cards and gifts. This year though, I’m determined to start wa...
Tom Froese: Kaldor Greeting Cards
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Another one of Tom‘s projects I am loving is the holiday gifts he’s developed for Kaldor (one, two). Each Christmas the branding agency se...
Collection: Rose Gold
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FOUND: 1. Wrap photo by Max Kim-Bee in Traditional Home Holiday magazine via designsgirl, 2. Bronze Age Flatware from Anthropologie, 3. Ocean Blue Aqu...
Color Happy 125
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Daffodils scream Easter to me, so this sunny photo by Kalle Wahlstedt seemed appropriate for today. If you happen to celebrate the upcoming holiday, e...
Color Happy 120
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In the spirit of yesterday’s holiday, I thought a primarily green palette was most appropriate. This hyper-saturated image was taken by Vince Al...
Color Happy 115
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Looking at this photo from this Flickr set, by Tomo Kohsaka, really makes me want to step up my breakfast game. Plus, the color palette seems perfectl...
Dowling | Duncan: Future Designs
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This modern, geometric identity was designed by Dowling | Duncan for Future Designs, a bespoke lighting systems company. Since its creation Dowling | ...
Christine Wisnieski
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I love everything in Cleveland-based designer, Christine Wisnieski’s portfolio. The works include both personal and professional projects that s...
Marx Design Holiday Gift
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For this year’s holiday gift, Marx Design chose to create a wine bottle design. The series of three bottles play off the founder’s last na...
Happy Holidays from dwl
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Starting today, we are taking a much-needed break to relax with friends and family over the holidays. If you have any time off in the next week, enjoy...
onepointoh
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This is perhaps more appropriate for Valentine’s Day than Christmas, but I’m loving this typographic screenprint by UK-based studio onepoi...
Holiday Happy Hour by Dribbble
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I don’t have a dribbble account (hint hint readers with extra invites :)), but it’s always fun to pop over there and catch a glimpse of wh...
bluepoolroad holiday goodie box
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Exciting news—Peggy of bluepoolroad has decided to offer her holiday goodie box once again this year! This fun little package offers a variety of ne...
Monday Quick Links: 12.20.10
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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? ...
Calendar Madness
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I realize some of you may be completely spent on 2011 calendars at this point, as we’ve been flooded with them since October. However, I’v...
12 Beards of Christmas Cards
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It’s no secret that I am not a huge fan of the whole facial hair trend (when it comes to design, not people). I never really got the appeal of i...
W+K Studio Holiday
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I’m always a fan of holiday items that use atypical color palettes, so I was immediately drawn to w+k studio’s typographic Jackpot Card Se...
Holiday Symbolisms
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Most of you are probably familiar with Erin Hanson of Recovering Lazyholic. Her work is simple, smart and witty; and she hasn’t made a piece I d...
Monday Quick Links: 12.13.10
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Need some last minute gifts? Here are a few great guides: The 99 Percent, grain edit, Swiss Legacy, FormFiftyFive. Check out Skinny Ships’ Top T...
Tad Carpenter Christmas
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Each year Tad Carpenter does a great job of coming up with a unique set of Christmas cards. He always uses a slightly offbeat, atypical palette for ho...
Kelli Anderson for 20×200
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Unfortunately, all of the pieces of this packaging design suite for 20×200 by Kelli Anderson weren’t produced this year—hopefully they...
Gift Guide 2010: Happy Holidays
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1. Sparkling Ornament Wreath, $65.00 / 2. No Kid Hungry Holiday Cards, $35.00 donation and up / 3. Two-sided Wrap, $20.00 / 4. To You, From Me Gift Ta...
It’s Gift Guide Time
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If you had any time off last week for Thanksgiving, I hope you enjoyed it! This week will be a little bit different as it will mostly be devoted to th...
Minted Winners
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Good morning readers! First task of the day is to announce the winners of last week’s Minted Giveaway. The three lucky ladies below were chosen ...
Élie Monge
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I’m starting to get in the holiday spirit—gift guides will be coming up in the next few weeks! So I’m loving this New Year’s card ...
A Minted Giveaway!
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I know, two giveaways in one week—it’s definitely a first! You may remember that I was a guest judge for the Minted holiday card challenge a f...
Knit
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Knit is a new series of vector pattern designs from You Work for Them. The two sets of pattens “hijacked off sweater vests from long forgotten c...
Monday Quick Links: 10.04.10
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Hello all! I have a few new links for you this morning. I’ll also be guest posting over at Hard Feelings this week while Dylan is off on his hon...
Monday Quick Links: 09.20.10
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Good read: Life’s Missing White Space (via swissmiss) The Scoop is The New York Times’ iPhone app that promises an inside guide to New Yor...
Minted Holiday Challenge Favorites
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If you’ve been following the Minted Holiday Card Challenge at all, you’re well aware that the number of submissions—over 1300—was reco...
I’m a Minted Judge!
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I am a huge fan of Minted, an online community, resource and marketplace for all things stationery. As a paper goods fanatic, I feel like so much of t...
Color Happy 74
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Today these bright springy colors are getting me into the spirit of the upcoming holiday. This beautiful photo is by he incredibly talented Abby Powel...
Monday Quick Links: 02.15.10
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Today’s quick links are brought to you a bit late on account of today’s holiday. We’ll be back tomorrow with regular posting. Enjoy ...
A Quick Valentine Freebie
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In the spirit of the upcoming holiday, I thought I’d offer a quick DIY freebie: 4 cards, 4 different designs. I’m not hugely into Valentin...
So Long 2009
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Happy New Year everyone! It’s good to be back after a long and relaxing break. I realize 2009 was a challenging year in a lot of ways. But I can...
Tad Carpenter holiday
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It’s no secret that I’m a big fan of Tad Carpenter’s work, as I’ve posted about it more than once. However, I had to share his...
A Last Minute DIY
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Two freebies in one week, I know. Looking forward to 2010, I hope to offer more of these on a regular basis. But if you’re looking for a last mi...
Holiday Freebies
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Ever since I started this blog I had intended to offer some freebies from time to time, and I’ve finally gotten around to it. So for the first e...
Monday Quick Links: 12.21.09
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I’ve got a rather large list of links for you this morning, a good start to a bit of a different week. We’ll be taking off on Thursday for...
Toast Its
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This is such a great idea for the holidays. Created by Imagehaus, Toast Its are greeting cards that wrap around wine bottles. Check the entire—well-...
Last Minute Calendars
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If you’re still in the market for a new calendar for the upcoming year, I’ve come across a couple recently that you might catch your eye&#...
Gift Guide 2009: Happy Holidays
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Here is a guide featuring some favorite holiday items, including gift wrap, cards and decor. This brings the week of Gift Guides to an end, so I hope ...
Welcome Back!
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If you had any time off last week for Thanksgiving, I hope you enjoyed it! This week will be a little bit different as it will mostly be devoted to th...
Holiday Favorites
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We’re almost a month away from Christmas and, since I haven’t done a thing to prepare, I’m starting to panic a bit. Every year I tel...
Last Call
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Just wanted to let everyone know that if you were planning on submitting your work (email us here) for the Holiday gift guides, we will need to receiv...
Holiday Goodie Bags
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I’m starting to get geared up to put together this year’s gift guides, so I was excited to see that bluepoolroads’s holiday goodie b...
Steph Says Hello
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Today is a holiday here in the States so I’m taking it off. So I’ll leave you with the incredible typography of Steph Baxter from Steph Sa...
Holiday Type
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FLAT-IT, an independent type foundry based in Japan, produces a whole range of various display faces. I previously wrote about one of their fonts, HT ...
Celebrate
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Image of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Landmark Memorial in West Palm Beach, Florida is from wallyg’s photostream I hope all of you get to take a ...
12.25.08
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Merry Christmas to all of you who celebrate the holiday! And to those of you who don’t, hopefully you’re at least getting a vacation day o...
No Days Off Christmas Cards
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I meant to post these a long time ago…Clever idea for holiday cards based on the 12 Days of Christmas, by No Days Off. Check out their portfolio...
For Next Year
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I’m picking up this Gift List Book by Russell + Hazel. It looks just as beautifully-designed as the rest of their products, and super useful—I...
Numbers
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A fun and educational holiday project from Pentagram. In their words: Each year Pentagram issues a small holiday book as a greeting to its friends, cl...