Archive for December, 2009
Happy New Year!
New Year’s Eve, Times Square, 1907 image via Vintage Culture
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Hommu
I Love the packaging design by Gloria Joven for Spanish home accessories company, Hommu. Images and tip via The Dieline.
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Changes: New American Paintings
At New American Paintings we are very excited about the year ahead. We have hired a new editor-at-large, Evan J. Garza, and now have yours truly 100% at the helm of design and production. With Evan’s new energy, the staff’s ideas and my new duties I have a renewed sense of pride and excitement around […]
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Best Movie Posters of the Decade
Check out The Auteurs list for the best movie posters of the decade. I think they did a great job of carefully selecting only elegant, well-designed pieces. The Auteurs is also an incredibly cool website that is, essentially, a rotating online film festival. They feature new films you can watch on your computer every week […]
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Happy Holidays to All
A few years ago I lamented to my mother about my inability to get my act together and send out holiday cards like a grown up. Her reply was that I would “be more organized about that once I was married…” Well, we are almost finished with year one and still it hasn’t happened…So, for […]
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A Love Letter for You.
Love Letter is a project by Stephen Powers with the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program. As of the 19th (during the blizzard no less) the Love Letter project came to an end with their 50th wall complete. The Phili Mural Arts Program is to be congratulated for supporting these artists (Lord knows, in Boston this would never […]
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Surely, I am the last to know…
I know this will be one of those post where everyone thinks, ‘duh, yeah, I know…’ OR if you’re like me, you’re about to be psyched by Need Supply Co. Apparently, this little company based in Richmond, VA started in 1996 selling vintage denim. They have now expanded to include contemporary denim brands and an […]
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Perhaps next year I’ll get my act together and design my own calendar, but for now I’ll recommend this one from Brooklyn based designer, Antonio Carusone/ AisleOne. A lover of minimalism, grid systems and typography, his work is clean, classic—the small details: perfect. As described on his website: The print features a calendar with the year […]
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Modern Day Santa
This weekend, my family got on the topic about the origins of Christmas and the development of the image of the modern-day Santa. I always assumed it was largely due to the illustrations of Norman Rockwell, but my mother asserted that it was much earlier with Harper’s illustrator, Thomas Nast, so I did some research […]
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Pattern Design: Zeixs Book
I love pattern and am constantly drawing inspiration from fabrics and wallpaper for my own invitation designs. Thanks to Design Work Life, I was introduced to this fantastic new book from Zeixs books in Germany. This will surely be added to my stacks soon…
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