It’s a bit of a Green Week around here so far. Now that certain people have received their birthday gifts in the mail, I can finally unveil a project I am really excited about: my recycled notebook/sketchbook. If you like what you see, we’ve featured this project in our on-going Unemployment Project of the Week […]
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Think Green: Recycled Notebook
March 24th, 2009 · 2 Comments
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Wednesday’s Weekly Reader: Triple the Fun
January 30th, 2009 · No Comments
…and late. Well that was extremely annoying last night. I’ll attempt to remember everything as I had it written. And my apologies for the absence of this column the past several weeks: hopefully this triple-stuffed edition will make up for it. (On a side note, I’m paranoid that I’ll lose the post again, so […]
Tags: Animation · Book Design · Design Life · Illustration · Inspiration · Letterpress/Printmaking · New Work · Photography · Product Design · Think Green · Typography · Web Design
Wednesday’s Weekly Reader: Schmorgasborg of Design Links
November 13th, 2008 · 2 Comments
I’m all mixed up on my day’s tonight. I started to write another post before it hit me that it was Wednesday already! Eep. So I scoured my shared items for some goodies to share. Once again, this week’s don’t seem to have any rhyme or reason, but hopefully are fun nonetheless.
Excellent Light Doodles Animation
Tricia’s […]
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Wednesday’s Weekly Reader: Typography
November 6th, 2008 · 5 Comments
Welcome to blog post 1 of NaBloPoMo! (Yesterday’s doesn’t really count.) So as I combed through my feed-reader, from the past couple of weeks a lot of really great posts stood out. But since I need to narrow things down and generally like to group them into a theme, I’ve picked all of the great […]
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Wednesday’s Weekly Reader: Fall Booklist Part 2
October 9th, 2008 · No Comments
I’ve been overwhelmed with the number of great books that just keep popping up…that, and I realized I’d forgotten a few on last week’s list. Hence the continuation. But before I get going, an important announcement: It Came!
This past weekend, I got the book I won from Johno over at iLT: Designing Books. It’s marvelous! And […]
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Wednesday’s Weekly Reader: Fall Booklist
October 1st, 2008 · 2 Comments
It seems that with fall around the corner, everyone is wanting to turn over a new “leaf.” (get it? ha! erm…) Anyways, this past week I found my Reader full of great books to add to my reading list. But first a fun little site found via Johno’s Found Type this past week:
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Czech It Out: I Won!
September 22nd, 2008 · 7 Comments
John over at iLT just announced that I won the copy of Designing Books: practice and theory that he was giving away! I can’t wait to get it: I’m so excited! I’ll be sure to post more once it’s here.
Since this week’s Sunday Type was focused on Czech Type, it reminded me that I have been […]
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Wednesday’s Weekly Reader: How To’s
September 11th, 2008 · 1 Comment
This week there seemed to be a lot of really good how-to’s that I came across. The exciting thing? Many of these how-to’s were things I had been wishing for, but not necessarily looking for. Joy!
How To’s
Making a Repeat-able Pattern with Julia Rothman
Rothman’s guest post on Design*Sponge walks you through how to create your own repeat-able patterns […]
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Wednesday’s Weekly Reader: Wish List
August 28th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Well, this was an unusual week: usually I find several items to share that all relate to each other. This week, I had a hard time categorizing them. So I guess I’ll just have to group things the best I can:
Adding these to my wish list:
Neubau Berlin has put both of their popular books in one […]
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Wednesday’s Weekly Reader
August 20th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Another week’s worth of great stuff on the web, but first an Fantasy Olympics update: it seems that despite a good start, Austria has slipped to the bottom. Alas!
Re-visiting the Orphan Works Bill debate:
I first posted about this issue here and here, and now Etsy’s Storque puts the debate up to their readers.
Great Resources:
If you’re like me and […]
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