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hey everybody. it is july, and this month we’ll be giving away an “i’mmaterial” print + notebook to one of our newsletter subscribers. as always, alls ya gotta do to enter is sign up for the newsletter in the footer below. good luck everyone!
i know it’s hard to convey the true feel of an event through a blog post, but i was super-geeked when i arrived at the adc paper expo. i loaded up on new paper sample books and all kinds of other printed goodies. there’s a few more pictures here.
ya know, for all of the grief that UO gets for stealing people’s artwork, it’s super cool of them to use their clout to promote artists in this way. way to be, urban outfitters.
the demise of print is topic that has had at least somewhat broad discussion among graphic designers since the web continues to grow and grow. yes, print is shrinking/will shrink more in it’s use, but it’s not going away, and i think we may even see a digital “backlash” to a certain extent. following are [...]
here are a couple of pieces i’ve been wanting to show for while but are unpublished as of right now anyway. you can go see ‘em nice and big and read about ‘em on flickr.
if you ever wondered how to do block printing, or how dorky the guy that writes this blog is, then you should watch the following video. thanks to the awesome meg from threadbanger.com for featuring me on decor it yourself!
live from bklyn would like to know your take on this thank you card design that we are working on. cool? lame? let us know what you think.
every once in a while one comes a cross a designer that makes one say, “oh NO! i’m gonna have to stay up late every night for the next month and a half to improve my design skills.” jessica hische is that designer. oh look, she also has a blog. super. it’s gonna be a [...]
last weekend i attended the wedding of melissa and brannon mcallister. as a gift for the guests, they had these fine, fine letterpress posters created by hatch show print.
friends of live from bklyn, i’m pleased to announce that we have opened a live from bklyn etsy shop (livefrombklyn.etsy.com). you can purchase fine art friday prints, as well as other prints of buildings in williamsburg, brooklyn and ornamental letterforms.
a dandy of an ad from our good friends over at hello health. it needs no explanation. and, if you live in the nyc area and are sans health insurance, do look into hello health. they are truly the future of health care.
tdba has updated with a site re-design and some fine new work. be sure to check out “superman vs. darth vader.” shut-upsicle. . . brilliant.
i’m always a tad jealous of this guy and all of the awesome vintage design pieces that he possesses, but i’m getting a turn now. a couple of weeks ago, my grandmother, the indomitable marguerite dailey (evans) crafton (from whom my name comes), passed away after complications from hip surgery. she left a legacy of [...]
and what better way to package then with packing tape? brilliant album packaging from brussels’ pleaseletmedesign.
paste magazine has a hot design for their new-music sampler this issue.
another beauty from jim hargreaves. jim is currently working as a graphic designer at barnhart communications in denver, co. writes jim about this invitation, “this project was done in the spring on behalf of studio pattern, also in denver. the invitation was for a VIP champagne party hosted by casenet at the bubble lounge, san [...]
christopher koelle, or “chris,” as his close friends call him, has a fine piece of art-parrel for sale right this very moment at teefury.com. but you must hurry if you want one of your very own. for you see, at the time of this posting, there are only 14:52:59 left before the t-shirt is no [...]
i saw the siglins’ wedding invitation hanging on my fridge yesterday, and thought, “that deserves a blog post.” so here it is. i would post a link to dave’s portfolio site, but he doesn’t have one. . . still. . . in 2008.
my friend christin sends tidings of this (orange)beautiful calendar. sweet idea to have the perforations to be able to save the typography as an art print. check out the rest of orangebeautiful’s offerings while you’re on their etsy page. the holiday card is just magnificent.
mark wagner is making his money work for him. check out his extensive collection of dollar bill cut and paste art. he’s also got some other great art mixed in. like this booklyn chapbook cover design. i just got that new york city poems book a week or so ago, and had planned on making [...]
oh starbucks, what a quandary you’ve put me in. so many reasons to hate you (like your quest for coffee hegemony), so many reasons to love you. like this tub that your perfect oatmeal comes in. simple, yet ornate. modern in design, classic in production. not only are the ornaments perfect in execution, but you [...]
i usually fancy myself a design purest, meaning that i think it better to achieve a certain processed look by actually using that process, rather than simulate it digitally. but i must say, i am quite taken with the effects of the mr. retro permanent press filters. i don’t like digital simulations because it’s usually [...]
so i’m bending my own rules a bit to discuss some great new music that i came across, but they are my rules, so i suppose i can do what i want with them. so gileah and the ghost train. if i had to sum up gileah’s music with one word, it would be haunting. [...]
i remember the days when i was a just grunt designer at bju creative services and bryan rees was an even gruntier grad assistant. now bryan is a big shot creating things like this mean-lean-clean-needs-to-be-seen operational standards workbook. no, i have no idea how i ended up such a dork, but i guess that’s one [...]
today we have an interview with marco suarez, whose work has been featured on this blog, and whom you may know from websites like “marcosuarez.com,” “marco suarez’s behance profile,” and “marco suarez’s facebook profile.” i know i know, but basically what i’m sayin’ is that marco is a killer designer that deserves more press than [...]
joshua smith of hydro74 has created a brilliant poster for the smashing pumpkins. joshua nails the hand-lettering and ornament, going so far as to include the wave pattern within the type. stellar.