inspiration and great bookmarks.

Vintage typography inspiration.
free online mags, more great inspiration.
typography for web designers.
it’s like space, geeky, computer-mouse driven space, or maybe more like making art without thought or effort.
always interesting reading. thinking for a living.

speak with conviction

Love this poem, love this typography video, and the article in which I found it was pretty good too.

sweet style

Discovered Kelly Kirk today, wonderfully fun patterns and letterpress joy! Check out her distinct high contrast style in her porfolio. And her and hubby’s design team eighthourday
These two seem to know how to combine work and play seamlessly into their designs.

letter heady

As a graphic designer in these TET’s (tough economic times) it’s easy to feel under appreciated. So to cheer myself up, sometimes I revel in snooping around the web for extremely ugly designs, and better yet beautiful print pieces. So to inspire and for a chuckle or two visit letterheady. That’s right; a collection of [...]

new work

Here’s a little peak at what I’ve been designing lately. The logo and brochure are for a client who has worked as a florist for most of her professional life, and is now branching out with her own business. She partnered up with a funeral home and is offering her services through them (talk about [...]

letterpress

I’ve been looking into letterpress printing for a client project recently and found a great site with a ton of downloadable caps letters, ornaments, ends, birds, beasts…pretty much any decorative element you could print on a letterpress! Briarpress is a great place to get inspired and definitley helped with the vintage-sign themed brochure I’ve been working [...]