I promise I am not obsessed with Frank Chimero. He is just so talented. And funny. It is a good thing to have a sense of humor ...
Frank and Ben Barry have set up a website called Questionable Characters where people can ask them questions. A large majority of the questions are about graphic design, but there are also some random ones thrown in there. It feels like an entertaining conversation.
These slides are just gorgeous. I hope we look back at the digital age and find as much beauty in it as I see in this stuff.
via: PinkShirtsAndCarWrecks
... this poster. I might give it to someone in my family just so I can have it. Another great one by Aesthetic Apparatus.
I had to actually look up the word advent. We know this to be the Advent Season, but what exactly does that mean? The first definition is: a coming into place, view, or being; arrival. This year we are truly celebrating a new arrival of our baby girl. And my Dad's brain, making it's way back into place. And of course the advent of the holiday season and a new birth, giving us a clean slate for the coming year (no matter what your beliefs are!).
D is just now understanding Christmas. I created an Advent Calender out of gift bags from Target. He is loving it! And when you ask him who gave him the presents he'll answer "Christmas gave them to me".
I am NOT a trend finder, but it seems that my obsession with small people photography is all over the place. I know that this is how trends happen. It's why there are so many babies with the same names, why we all start liking the color yellow about the same time and why Birkenstocks came to be a "normal" looking shoe. You see or hear something once and your brain mulls over it until you become obsessed.
Oh Dee Doh recently featured Matthew Carden. You can buy his magical prints at Fawn and Forest. And I stumbled onto Vincent Bousserez's Flickr set via Happy Cavalier's blog.
Tasty Suite is a vinyl studio on Etsy. They create fabulous self-adhesive wall decals. Every order is custom. You choose your colors. And they are super affordable.
via: Oh Happy Day
I horded my Communication Arts for years. I even managed to score other people's old outdated books for my collection, only to see them sit in boxes in the basement. This past Saturday, T and I went through 25 boxes of books and filled ten boxes with "giveaways". Included in those were almost all of our CAs (I had to keep a few Design Annuals).
I have realized that the internet has filled the void that I used to fill with the eye candy from the glossy pages of those super heavy magazines. The AIGA website is one of the most comprehensive libraries of graphic design on the web. I forget about it from time to time and then waste hours sifting through all of the amazing design work.
I should also note that the CommArts website is great too. I won't forget my first love.
Binth has been everywhere. From Design*Sponge to Blueprint to Cookie to Domino. Their baby book is beautiful ... a rare find among the overly written and "cutesy" books of other publishers. Their posters are gorgeous.
Chronicle Books has mass produced a couple of Binth products that you can buy at a MUCH discounted rate. Consider it "Binth for ALL". Some cheap frames from Target and you've got yourself some designer wall art!
I remember going to birthday parties as a little girl. A gift was always in hand and attached to it was a little card with my full name. I never understood why it was there. But now, as a mom, I get the convenience and tradition of "calling cards". I used those same calling cards well into my teen years. Probably from the same box that my Mom had ordered when I was an infant.
My Fairy Godmother, Jackye Lanham, just commissioned us to do calling cards for her grand-niece. Jackye is amazingly creative and one of the top interior designers in the South (to see some of her work: article here and blog posting here). Being that her grand-niece lives in Hawaii she wanted the design to convey a "Hawaiian quilt feel". I love quilts and had no idea there were so many beautiful patterns out of the islands. It was such a fun research project.
Here were some of her choices. Typical baby pastels felt all wrong with these bold patterns. Jackye and her niece landed on the pink card at the top of this post. We also did folded note cards with the same pattern.
Photographer Callie Shell met Obama while covering presidential candidate John Kerry in 2004. She returned to her editor with more pictures of Obama than of Kerry. Upon being asked why, Callie replied, "I do not know. I just have a feeling about him. I think he will be important down the road.".
Check out her gallery of photos from over the past two and a half years. They are awesome. It was hard not to post them all here.
There are also some beautiful pics (by other photographers) here. Thanks, Sarah.
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