Citizen's guide to fancy pants coffee drinks

Cute.

VIA

Need to Want Less

Saw this popping up around FFFFound, which eventually brought me to the flickr page. There are tons of these things! Some profound, some just silly.

Recovering Lazyholic. <--This lady has a terrific and thorough portfolio besides!

And she also has a SHOP!!!

Lost Valentines

So, the new season of LOST is so far pretty swell, but I have to say I'm a tad more enthralled by the recent Lost-related design cropping up on the internets. There were yesterday's Lost posters and just now I've come across (two days too late) these nifty little illustrated Lost-themed Valentines. I really lol'd at the bottom one. Oh, just classic.

BEAVOTRON

iPhone wallpapers

CUUUUUUTE.

BEN SCHLITTER

Beatles Flow Chat

Ah, flow charts. Like Venn Diagrams, they're provide and excellent template for cheeky design. I saw this on ffffound this morning, then just now and felt like I had to post it. It's a very nicely done chart, with clean lines and a simple monochromatic color scheme.

via SWISSMISS

Stylish Forecast

I love this minimal and elegant way of reporting the weather. I especially love the image they use for a rainy day. As they don't have Minneapolis available (yet), I have London bookmarked... I'm just all too wistful for the city.

HOW'S THE WEATHER

Wallpaper* City Guides

I was at Barnes & Noble the other day with my sister, who's traveling to Europe next week. We were looking in the international guidebook sections and kept finding these little Wallpaper* City Guides wedged between books. They're so small and cute! We kept looking around for other ones and it was fun to find them in different colors. They're so wonderfully minimalist and convenient. You can get them for $10 each. Next time I travel I have to get me one of these.

(from Wallpaper* magazine)

PHAIDON

The "Save" bookmark

Take a look at this. For computer geeks everywhere, the save bookmark, for when you don't want to dog ear every page in a magazine.

DOWNLOAD the PDF

(via SWISSMISS)

The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over the Lazy Dog

Self-promotion annual gift limited to 300 numbered copies. Intending to share with clients and friends some of the graphic design universe, a typographic Concentration Game was created. It's comprised of 20 pairs of cards, each one presenting a different type family. Extra cards bring a typographical glossary with main terms and the explanation of the sentence witch names the gift: "the quick brown fox jumps to over the lazy dog". The package also contains a text about the evolution of type design, locating in history each font used in the cards.

PS.2 ARQUITETURA

Wishlist- "T" towel

I was just thinking this evening how I wanted some new tea towels. And then I go on a browsing frenzy with KCG and this is what happens. They have other nice tea towels, but this one is simplicity at its most divine.

BUY (YAY)
(I'm going to be really embarrassed when one day this blog starts getting readers and they see how many times a day I updated, fully knowing that I'm the only one getting anything out of it)

Best thing ever- My Helvetica Moleskine

I actually got this on my birthday, which was more than a month ago. I thought I should talk about it a little on here. Let me see. First, it's absolutely precious. I like holding it and running my fingers over the imprinted cross in front and type on the back. I kept the outside label on just so it's all in one place. There's a cute little file folder in the back and a red cloth bookmark. And best of all, it comes with a brief history of Helvetica.

Currently it sits atop a stack of design books on my desk. <3

The Journal of Popular Noise

I was just perusing through my July issue of NYLON and spotted this tucked away in a small blurb:

If you ever wished that Andrew W.K.--after a career spent making operatic, uplifting rock--would go into the world of infomercials, then you need to hear and read the latest issue of The Journal of Popular Noise. This audio zine, curated by graphic designer Byron Kalet, aims to blend "traditions of pop music, printed periodicals, and the delight of a finely crafted artifact." The journal comes with three 45s (pop), each slotted into origami cardstock (artifact). Carefully unfold the letter-pressed package, and you will find a summary of each recording artist. Kalet grew up making music in Seattle before moving to New York City to study design at Parsons. He founded the journal in his spare time "as sort of a reconciliation between music and magazines," he says. "it was an exploration into the crossover between sound and vision." In addition to W.K., the next issue will feature contributions from former Make=Up front man Ian Scenonius and the sketch-comedy duo of Sarah Walker and Jessie Cantrell.

How cool is that? It's absolutely gorgeous. Each issue, there is a limited edition of 100 letterpress, which is $30. Or, you can get the plain ole version for $15. I don't even need to think about that one.

GET YOUR COPY TODAY

Anyone Can Swiss

The gloves are off. It has been suggested that our environment is over-saturated with use of Helvetica. Some have even suggested that Helvetica is a complete design cop-out. Others would say that Helvetica and associated signage are beautiful works of art that requires hours at the computer, slaving over letter spacing. This project suggest that perhaps Helvetica posters are so extremely formulaic that perhaps a monkey (or a computer) could do it? This is an experiment in design discourse.

The jury is still out.

Oh dear. This is definitely brilliant, but dammit, Helvetica is not a design cop-out!

ANYONE CAN SWISS

Wishlist- French Stripe T-Shirt

Woww. I love me some striped t-shirts (seriously, a lot). You can buy this (for me) over at RUMPLO for $35.

London Design Festival 2009

This is a really cool yet simple campaign for the London Design Festival coming up in September. Sigh.. I wish I could go.

Check out the rest of the campaign HERE

Working the field

It's so true..

HOW TO BE HAPPY IN BUSINESS

Oh you sonuva....

If anyone tries to pull this on me, I'll hit you. Hard.

Accuracy

I feel slightly less than intelligent posting this, but it really makes me giggle.

Helvetica Forever

I'm not having such a great day, so I'm posting about stuff that makes me happy. This is a fun little site about an exhibition in Germany about Helvetica. They also have some amazing fabric bags available (very limited edition, and for how much I do not know). Anyway, check it out yourself HERE.

Totally Ingenious

via FFFFOUND