Winter Village

I have never really wanted to start collecting my own christmas village, until I saw these at Target yesterday. My grandma had ones just like these! Now, I want to collect them all! Also, Martha Stewart has a tutorial on how to make them, so I think this would be a great project do do with my mom. I would love to be able to make little houses of all the buildings that are important to me, our house, my parents house, the place we got married, etc. It would be the cutest village! <3






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Wha????

I can barely find the words to express my feelings for seeing this on my google reader:




Really Chrysler? How can it be that in the same day, the news went from BBDO closing their Detroit Office because Chrysler is breaking up with them, to an article about how Chrysler is going to spend more money than they ever have to market themselves. Reading this as a designer and a lifelong Detroiter makes me furious.

Looks like Chrysler is sending their business over to other states. There are a ton of Michigan companies that go outside of Michigan for design work, but this one makes me so mad just because it directly led to the closing of BBDO Detroit offices.

Way to go, Chrysler.

cyan

I just came across the website for the amazing Berlin based design studio, cyan. A couple years ago, I was fortunate enough to visit their studio and hear them talk about their work. Their posters are like candy for any designer, but they have got to be my favorite book designers. On their site, they display each spread of their book, which is why I love them.

Life Clippings

I just found a new favorite site! Not sure if you can really call it a site, but google has archived a bunch of LIFE magazines. I own a few of old LIFE magazines that I found at estate sales, but this is even better! It makes me wonder how long it will take until every physical form of media can be accessible online. Will we even need to collect magazines? or will they all just be something we browse online. I don't hate that idea, but I do still love having the physical pieces. These magazines are rich with type samples and amazing illustrations. I have started to collect my favorites, here are some of the ones I have so far:

Color Theory

Below are some color studies I made with a sketch for a friend. for each set, the color of the letters CG are exactly the same, but because of their background, they look different. I forgot how much I love color theory :)

TEDxDetroit

I am SO excited, I just got my boarding pass for the TEDxDetroit conference for tomorrow. Out of 350+ applicants, somehow I managed to get accepted! I know this is a local event, with our own local celebrities, but I am so excited to hear and meet the people around town that share the same mind set as me.

My list of presenters that I really, really want to meet:
• Dan Izzo, Training Leader at Bizdom U
• PJ Jacokes, Producer/Lead Instructor at Go Comedy!
• Terry Bean, Author, Speaker and Founder of Networked, Inc
• Terry Barclay, President and Chief Executive Officer of Inforum Michigan
• And of course all the people who organized this event!

I think by the end of it, I will want to meet EVERY presenter. I'm interested to see if I know any other attendees. If not, I guess I will have to make new friends, which is always good!

Blog in a blog!

I'm excited to launch yet another blog, Moving Beauty. This blog will be a collection of all my lettering and typography work. Here is a little preview: