I had the pleasure of spending the evening last night at Scampo for this month’s Boston Bloggers meetup, catching up with friends, meeting some in the flesh for the first time and making a few completely new acquaintances. Alison and Kate did a lovely job planning, as always! As I was chatting with Elizabeth and […]
Category Archives: Art + Design
Of the many ludicrous apps I have on my phone, one that I have mixed feelings about is Timehop. What started out as a daily email showing your posts on various social media one year ago, is a now an app complete with social element, sharing capabilities and seven years of online history. I don’t […]
Not since Jessica Hische’s Daily Drop Cap project began in 2009 have we been so captivated with a recurring project – but Lauren Hom’s Daily Dishonesty series is taking the internet by storm, and the combination of hand lettering, digital editing and a dash of humor and wit is right up our alley. Lauren explores […]
It’s by no means new, but I’ve only just discovered the sequel to Western Spaghetti by PES, and after watching both this morning it seemed a fitting bit of fun for a Friday. In 2009, Western Spaghetti – a stop-motion short featuring iconic toys as components in a marinara – made solo artist PES a […]
We’re not big Valentine’s Day celebrators – on the docket tonight, laundry! – but we do love a good nerdy card, especially one with puns, and this holiday seems to offer plenty of both. Enjoy a few that caught our eye this year, and click through for more from each stationer.
From time to time, we find ourselves smitten with a font that we find in the wild; great type turns up in theater programs, museum wall captions and grocery packaging. One of the tools I turn to time and again to identify finds like these so that we can incorporate them into a project is […]
It’s funny how things come together sometimes, like finding a jigsaw piece under the table that suddenly brings the rest of the puzzle into focus. (Everyone else also did endless puzzles with their grandmothers and great aunts as a child, right?) I’ve been working on a stripey bachelorette invite – a fun, low-stress project, as it’s pro bono for […]
Jack and I are suckers for a good making-of video (better yet, a live tour!). One of our favorite weekends this summer was spent exploring the processes and machinery at Streamline Press in Connecticut. (Spoiler alert: we designed and developed the Streamline site.) As designers, there is nothing better to educate our own processes and considerations […]
Happy Monday! video credit: Stephen Meierding
As time flying has become the new normal, I’ve tried to keep from commenting on it – but this week really did get away from us. For the moment, wedding invitations and two authors’ websites are keeping us occupied, and our next two weekends involve 36+ hours of car travel. (Here’s to adventures!) We recently gave […]