pretty

Design Sponge is celebrating their 5 year anniversary with pretty wallpaper giveaways. It's the gift that keeps on giving, because they will also be doing a wallpaper giveaway each month featuring different artists and designers. So keep checking back!

I always love getting a nice wallpaper every now and then to spruce up my background and rejuvenate my computers appearance.

5 year anniversary

analog!

There's a cute little stationary site based out of San Francisco called Yellow Owl Workshop that is offering up odes to all things analog in this crazy digital age. Love this postcard set and all the Polaroid kitsch!

reverse graffiti

The idea of cleaning grime to create street art is a new one for me, and I have to say I like it. 

fonts, free fonts

Hello there :)
Everybody likes free fonts right?

So I've been following Fontfabric for awhile. And I'm always waiting, watching and anticipating their next font, and quite often it's a free one. Even the fonts that aren't free are decently priced.
The free ones are always a little funky, not 'exactly' legible, but definitely fun.
It's worth checking out and their designs for promoting the fonts are nice eye candy as well :)

Free fonts!

letterpress workshops?

I want to letterpress. I want to create a design, typeset it and see the actual letterpressed goodness after a run through the 'ole printing press. I want to spend a weekend geeking out with other graphic design nerds about typefaces and ink combinations. I want to get my hands dirty.

So periodically I sit down alone with my MacBook Pro and I type in search queries designed to elicit the ultimately cool letterpress workshop taking place next weekend at some yet-to-be-located letterpress studio (which, in my crazy fantasies, is located just down the street from my little apartment). I have not had success in this quest to date. As you might have guessed, either by noting that question mark in the title of this post or by observing the whiny tone to this blog entry.

Anyway, enough about me. The point here is to mention that while conducting a sad and lonely letterpress workshop google search tonight I stumbled across a website that includes classified ads for all things letterpress. No LA workshops on there at the moment, but maybe I'll find that elusive perfect weekend workshop someday. It must be out there somewhere!

new addition to the color library

Really interesting color site that was sent to me yesterday, Colorate.org.
You can learn about color, put together color palettes, work with colors 3 dimensionally and see how they relate to each other. Pretty cool!

http://www.colorotate.org/

compost modern

What an adorable ad was created for AIGA's Maine edition of Compost Modern Conference!  For more information about the clever people behind the clip, see the Design Sponge item that introduced me to it.