r.i.p maya angelou

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covering the classics

Shayna recently introduced me to Creative Action Network, "a marketplace for original, visual, meaningful work, crowdsourced from a passionate community of artists & designers around the world." She just finished a Muir Woods poster for their See America campaign.

They also have a Covering the Classics campaign, wherein designers can submit their cover interpretations of classic books; you can buy the book (printed by Harvard Bookstore) in paperback with the design you like, or buy it as a poster. Here are some standout choices:

Jack London's Call of the Wild; cover by Michael van Kekem

Bram Stoker's Dracula; cover by Steve St. Pierre

Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea; cover by Darrell Stevens

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes; cover by Ioannis Fetanis

Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels; cover by Naomi Sloman

Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter; cover by MrFurious

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tauba auerbach

Components in Order, 2005. By Tauba Auerbach.

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jessica hische drop caps

I'm loving these Jessica Hische drop cap iPhone cases:

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world type map

I'm liking this World Type Map.

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hipster branding

Hipster Branding via SwissMiss. Genius.

keep calm and, you know, carry on

I've never been a big fan of those Keep Calm and Carry On posters. I'm even less a fan of the various iterations (Keep Calm and Buy Shoes? Keep Calm and Eat a Cupcake?). However, I gained a new appreciation for the original World War II-era poster after watching this video. Did you know that the poster was discovered in 2000 by the owner of Barter Books? Which, by the way, is one on the list of the 20 most beautiful bookstores in the world...

Enjoy! 

 
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lost type co-op

When looking to freshen up the old blog I happened upon Lost Type Co-op, a "pay-what-you-want" type foundry. Take a look at some of the gorgeous type faces they have available for use: 

for ever.

I don't have any tattoos. It's really an issue with commitment. Don't get me wrong, some tattoos I like on some people. But I just don't know if I could ever commit to getting something inked on my body. For Ever.

I get that people look at their tattoos and think back to who they were at that pivotal time. Why they chose that thing or word or symbol or whatever they chose. But I look back at pictures of myself from 15 years ago and think what was I thinking about my outfits and my hair. Thankfully outfit choices from the late 90's don't last forever and hair grows out.

That's why I like Tattly tattoos: coolio designs (by awesome designers like Julia Rothman, James Victore, Chris Glass, and Jessi Arrington) and they don't last FOR EVER.

alphabet bags

 

 

Gold foil alphabet bags, you are fab.

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