And a Holiday Card

Duh.

Thank You Cards

It's Christmas, which means lots of Thank You cards are coming up. I tried my hand at a few variations.










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society6

So I rarely find graphic design poster stores that I like (call me picky), but society6 has some great options. Most of their products come in posters, stretched canvases, framed art prints, laptop and ipod skins & covers, t-shirts, and hoodies.








from society6, originally found from a list of the internet's 10 best ron swanson tributes

advice on job seeking

1. Have a brilliant portfolio. Sounds obvious, but, you know…

2. Have a website. A Flickr page. A blog. A zine. Anything that shows that you’re a proper design nut.

3. Find out who to contact: Letters that start ‘Dear Sir / To Whom it may concern’ suggest you haven’t done even the basic research.

4. Don’t spend ages telling them why you’d benefit from a placement, but do spend a while telling them why they’d benefit from having you as a placement.

5. Be flexible on your timings.

6. Proof read your email / CV / portfolio. Then do it again. And again. Then get someone else to do it a couple of times too



from we made this

Creating a new Chiquita Banana Font

This is so cute and fun. Nothing like the real product as inspiration for the Chiquita Banana label.

watch the making at http://vimeo.com/27727577


By the way, sorry with the ugly posts so far, i'm not sure why but blogspot has taken away their post prettyfication options.

vintage godzilla posters.

from designer-daily



wow. i can dig it.

Quilling

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=q9HdkxIfyFE#!

Sweet video of a little quill pen at work by Niels Shoe Meulman. Could watch this all day.

originally from booooooom

Say Something Posters

great swipe, love these posters. positive messages too!

from saysomething

attention designerds

typography galore on this site, ugmonk. some fun stuff, maybe christmas gifts. they have a 20% discount November 25-28, so hit that up as well.

gingerbread

So I was looking at Leckerlee, a German gingerbread company (why not, we're officially in the Holidays)'s website, beautifully designed by UPPERQUAD. The cakes look absolutely delicious and even cuter are the traditionally custom designed tins!

and not to mention the vintage advertising.

damn, daugherty.

SO realistic. I wonder if he used a grid...?

http://www.buzzfeed.com/catesish/hyperrealistic-hand-drawn-portraits

more more more inspiration

These are crazy!
http://www.booooooom.com/2011/11/07/intricately-cut-paintings-by-artist-painter-resa-blatman/

http://www.resablatman.com/

a print a day

tryna get an invite to this girl's blogspot...

Occupy Oakland

Last wednesday I went to Occupy Oakland to take pictures for class. It being the scene of one of the most violent protests in the country , I was extremely hesitant but this ended up being very peaceful. People are definitely still angry but for the most part it reminded me of Bonnaroo but with speeches instead of artists.

extreme.

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