Our Little Lincoln is Famous

Check it out! Someone I don't know posted a picture of our dog on f*yeahbostonterriers

Here is the pic, taken by Christine Edwards.

Library Treasures

I love love love love virtual libraries! Especially when I find wonderful type specimens and manuscripts like the ones below! These are found from the Cincinnati Virtual Library. This site was a gold mine to me, and I downloaded a ton of pdfs but only featured a couple here. If you want to see more, visit my flickr set or visit the virtual library for yourself! They have WW2 posters, maps, children's books, manuscripts, and more!

Peter Bilak

While doing some research on Modern Dance for a project coming up, I started to think about Peter Bilak. A couple years ago, I was fortunate enough to visit Peter Bilak's studio in The Hague with some friends of mine. While we were there, he showed us some performance based design projects he was working on. I was blown away! It was new to me, at the time, to see a designer collaborating with a dance studio to create a performance. I was so excited to see he has the videos up on his site!

He partnered up with a modern dance studio, and worked with them to design a few highly conceptual performances. One performance, Twenty, has a countdown clock behind the dancers. The clock starts at 20 min, and counts down. It speeds up and slows down according to the tempo of the dance beat, but the whole performance is still 20 minutes long.

Here are some pics from a performance where the dancers shadow is delayed a couple seconds. Be sure to check out the video too.



And of course, some pictures of us visiting Peter in his studio. (photos taken by Curtis Flanagan)

Stamps!

Every now and then, I think about starting a stamp collection. I have a few from the Netherlands that are so beautiful. While the U.S. post office isn't really known for having the best stamps to choose from, I found these that were not super terrible. I really love the King & Queen stamps. I wish they had this when we sent our wedding invitations.

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.