Source: Yellow Heart Art These words are all too familiar. You know how they says girls never stop thinking? Well that definitely rings true to me. In my case I’m am constantly thinking about design. Mostly, projects I’m working on. I know that sounds silly, but it’s true. I can’t seem to turn it off. Jake is off in a blissful sleep as soon …
It’s August, my favorite month. Can you guess why? It’s my birthday month! This month for “Face of Type” we chose Bureau Grotesque. It is a wonderful, more condensed, san serif font perfect for display. Font Fun Fact: Bureau Grotesque is one of the fonts we use for A Pear of Pears’ Identity. Notice the word “Pears” in our blog’s header. Yep, that’s …
Source: Uncommon Goods Sailboats! Rockets! Robots! Popsicles are such a wonderful treat in the summertime. And what could be better then these? The possibilities of flavors are endless and a set of 6 is only $10 at Uncommon Goods.
This poster wonderfully illustrates it’s message with only the use of type. It’s such a simple solution for this piece. So simple in fact, it’s brilliant. Today make an effort to go beyond the obvious. It makes like a little more interesting. Wouldn’t you say? Source: Me and This To “think outside the box” is to look further and try to not think of the obvious things, but to …
London is, well… quite lovely if you ask me. I love the culture, the accents, and the history of city. While studying there on a college summer trip, I had a project where I was assigned to design a mind map illustrating what I did over the weekend. It was a fun personal project that always brings back fond memories …
Source: Oh Crafts If you haven’t already noticed, I would much rather make things then buy them from a store. It’s fun, cheaper and it makes me feel accomplished. I’m definitely making these sometime. They would be a perfect present for kids, Hmmm, 3 nieces and 2 nephews, I think that’s a good excuse don’t you?
I love Porcelain. It’s clean, simple, and chic. For wedding presents we got a lot of porcelain kitchen items: a butter dish, gravy boat, and my forever favorite elephant tea pot (from my sister). Last weekend we were shopping at Ross (which we do quite often since it is in walking distance from our apartment) and I came across a porcelain rhinoceros. It was love at first sight. We …
Today is the first day in two weeks that I have been home during the day for work. Last week I worked with Jake on his show Who Knew that he animates for. It was nice being with him during the day. But today I am home which will give me a chance to catch up on some work. I can’t say …
Happy July everybody! Can you believe it’s already July? This year is flying by. Today I’m excited to announce a new feature on our blog called The Face of Type. Each month Jake and I are going to pick one of our favorite typefaces, tell you a little about it and spruce up a letter from that face. We will be doing this …
Source: Judy the Jazz Cat Our first apartment lease is coming to an end. We got a letter in the mail a few days ago from management that so kindly told us, if we don’t tell them we are moving in the next few weeks that our lease will automatically be renewed for another year. Jake and I weren’t planing on moving …
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