Saturday Book Review: Emily Giffin

Today's book review is about author Emily Giffin. I've read 3 of her 5 books and I'm on the latest right now, Heart of the Matter. The first one, Something Borrowed is my favorite still and now a feature film. All five books have the characters intertwined somehow. They are about relationships (friends, family and significant others).

Born in the Sky: Poems by Pediatric Patients

These photos document a collaboration between Writers in the Schools, Children's Hospital, and the letterpress artists of the School of Visual Concepts to beautifully present poems written by patients in the palliative care program. Poems were written with the guidance of WITS writer-in-residence Sierra Nelson. 

Typeface Film

Request a screening in Seattle! Go here.

50 Things every graphic design student should know

Not just for students-good advice in general. Click here.

Jesse LeDoux

Local (Seattle) designer/illustrator Jesse LeDoux. Also teaching at School of Visual Concepts. Some pieces for Bumbershoot, 2011.

About Jesse:
Born in Portland, Oregon, Jesse LeDoux worked for many years as an art director for Seattle-based Sub Pop Records where he created iconic album and poster artwork for such artists as the Shins ('Best album packaging' Grammy nominee for Chutes Too Narrow), Iron and Wine and Death Cab for Cutie before leaving in 2004 to focus on his client-based and personal work at LeDouxville. Parallel to working on commercial illustration and collaborative projects for such clients as Nike, Kidrobot, Giro, Penguin UK, Rome Snowboards and Target, he has exhibited internationally. His work was included in the Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial (2007) and an installation at the University of Maryland (2008). A large-scale mural of his work can currently be seen in downtown Denver, Colorado. He currently lives and works in Seattle, WA. 

Adrian Forrow Promotional piece

I like this promotional piece by Adrian Forrow. It's nice to see newspaper being used in an interesting way. As long as we recycle after we are done with it! :)

Things Organized Neatly

Boy do I love when things are organized (the rare Type A part of me). Hence, why I love this site. Austin Radcliffe is the creator and Imprint did an interview with him you can read here.

Ad only visible when it rains

Great idea from Fresh Green Ads. The ad for Sea Life aquarium in Scheveningen, Holland only appears when it rains. This would be great to do in Seattle-people would see it all the time. Although it's beautiful out today. Via AdFreak.

Ramiro Chaves

Interesting photography by Ramiro Chaves. Via designworklife and becauseitsawesome.

Happy Easter!

I'll be on vacation for a couple days. If I don't get a chance to post, everyone have a Happy Easter! Now this is an Easter bunny! Read more about him here.

Letterpress Friday: Two Paperdolls

Two Paperdolls is an amazing letterpress/design studio in Pennsylvania. Their blog is amazing as well. Some of their work below. I really want one of these clocks.

Happy Earth Day!

No plastic water bottles for me today. Actually, I haven't used a plastic bottle since my post back in February. Here is a cool interactive flash animation put out by GOOD about America's energy use. Click here.

Manifestos of great designers

Great book of manifestos by elite international designers. Read more about it here. Purchase here, but they are sold out. :( You can view them though. Makes me think, what would my manifesto be?

4/20

Check out all the crazy stuff that happened on 4/20. Can't wait for Amsterdam in September! :)


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Posters of Fortune

Via designworklife. What a great idea! Here are some of my faves...

Posters of Fortune is a cur­rent ini­tia­tive of The Type Directors Club and Cardon Copy. Twenty inter­na­tion­ally renowned design­ers were each sent a for­tune cookie, and then charged with the task of cre­at­ing a typo­graphic poster inspired by, and fea­tur­ing, their own dis­tinct for­tune. The result­ing posters will be
on dis­play at TDC, and avail­able for bid­ding, through May 12^th, with all pro­ceeds going to the Type Directors Club Scholarship Fund.

Abby Low

David Pearson

JongeMeesters

ilovedust

F8 Conference Badges

I love when innovative thinking is put into mundane things you see all the time. These are interesting, well thought out and very nicely designed by the in-house team at Facebook. Via fonts in use.

The conference badge is a challenging design conundrum. John D. Berry duly likens them to highway signs in this Font magazine article. How do we create a template for names which vary widely in length, while making each one legible enough to reduce the chances of an awkward chest gaze?
The in-house design team at Facebook, including Ben Barry and Everett Katigbak, engineered one of the more innovative solutions in their tags for last year’s f8, the Facebook developer conference.

“When we were first talking about the booklets and badges we had a bunch of Field Notes journals laying around that our friends at Gowalla had sent over. We immediately thought it would be a good booklet size and thought too it was a good size for a badge. Never wanting to take the easy way out we decided to go for it and make the badge and booklet one piece.” — Ben Barry

The typeface is the Narrow width of Facebook’s identity face, Vista Sans. Xavier Dupré’s informal design sets a friendly tone for the event, and its open aperture and extra large lowercase let names be read at a quick glance from a distance before resorting to the ol’ now who am I talking to here? stare at close range. Be sure to check out the rest of Ben’s work. He does nice things with type.

Photographer Corey Arnold

A while back I stumbled upon Portland based photographer, Corey Arnold. I recently saw a write-up on his work in GOOD.

Saturday Book Review: GOOD Magazine

OK, so not a book, but a fantastic magazine. The price of a subscription is up to you and the money goes to a charity of your choosing. The magazine is very well designed and packed full of information that's all good. Subscribe here.

New Skittles spots

Love! By TBWA\Chiat\Day NY. You can see the other two spots here.

Friday Cute overload

A site my friend sent along-cute roulette. Just click and get more cuteness. Here is one example.

A Print Handbook for Designers

I bought this last night. Can't wait to leaf through it. Available for purchase here.