white space is nice space. ♥

LONG BREAK

2011-11-03T04:29:00.002-05:00

Sorry for the long break.

This blog will return in the summer of 2012.

XOXO,

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Felix Sockwell | creative process

2011-10-24T02:04:00.000-05:00

always cool to see how someone solves a problem or gets from point A to point B. Felix Sockwell shares his sketches for the iTunes logo. thanks, Cooks. Read about it on Felix's blog >>

social media shoes

2011-10-20T19:48:00.002-05:00

while researching products for a client tonight I ran into these bad boys.

they're only conceptual. Sigh... I love them.

by Lumen Bigott

white space is nice space

2011-10-20T19:35:00.001-05:00

honk if you like this as much as I do. via @copyranter

a pack of rats!

2011-10-19T08:19:00.000-05:00

rat pack via coolisacolor

simplesong calendars

2011-10-19T08:01:00.001-05:00

totally in love with these calendars, 3 months at a time displayed with great color choices. buy it here >>

(hmm... or if you're an artist, you can just make one for yourself, really. Sorry, Simplesong)

around the blake house

2011-10-19T07:51:00.001-05:00

his legacy lives on

2011-10-18T19:59:00.000-05:00

Sprint ad on back cover of Rolling Stones mag - via @gruber

steve jobs legacy rolling stones magazine sprint ad 1955 to i love you steve jobs apple mac imac

DIY anthropologie zinc letters

2011-10-17T08:19:00.000-05:00

I've been drooling over Anthropologie's Zinc letters for a while now and was so flippin' excited when I found a little down & dirty tutorial on how to make your own | see full tutorial on GardenBerger >>

(Anthropologie's orginal)

(Becca's version)

fun furniture

2011-10-17T08:05:00.000-05:00

from my own board on Pinterest >>

letterpress goodness

2011-10-14T10:03:00.000-05:00

could this be any prettier? No. No, it couldn't. found here

Talk To Your Kids About Star Wars | PSA

2011-10-13T13:19:00.000-05:00

one of the funniest videos I've seen in a long time.

Caution: this is ONLY funny IF you're a Star Wars fan/fanatic.

Thank you, Zoe Morelock Miller.

dancers among us | jordan matter

2011-10-12T10:40:00.000-05:00

Dancers Among Us by Jordan Matter.
I love the ones using a camera as a prop, you can see the full gallery here >>

white space in packaging

2011-10-11T21:39:00.001-05:00

by GOOD agency via The Dieline

i wish i was the moon tonight

2011-10-11T20:38:00.001-05:00

obsessing over this song these days.

eric sookie have sex for the first time - theme song true blood

wayfinding typography

2011-10-11T20:33:00.001-05:00

rad.

avontull.tumblr.com

1970's southwest flight attendant

2011-10-11T10:03:00.000-05:00

via archshrk

farmers market | overland park

2011-10-10T09:56:00.001-05:00

love all the colors I find at the market!

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...and sprinkle a little guilt

2011-10-08T07:08:00.000-05:00

saw this on Pinterest. Decided NOT to skip the morning jog. Feel better. :)

nice reminders

2011-10-08T06:36:00.003-05:00

woke up stupid early this saturday to do chores and get a head start on a very busy weekend. As I'm sitting at the computer reading the news, sipping on tea to nurse this sore throat, I was trying to talk myself into going back to bed. But one look around the house and I know I can't ignore work and the obvious joys of owning a home. Sigh. But you know what? Another look around and I see a few loving gifts that remind me to choose the challenge, not the comfy bed. So here I go. :)

Happy Saturday, everyone!

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ps: thanks for the gifts, friends.

thanks, Mary

thanks, Mr. Bryant.

thanks, mãe

hello again

2011-10-05T21:37:00.001-05:00

long time no post.

i hope all is well with you all.

I'm doing fine, blessed to have a wonderful husband & daughter,

that's all that matters

i'll be posting as deadlines allow it (props to amc for that one)

♥

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steve jobs has passed

2011-10-05T20:02:00.000-05:00

what a disturbing loss.

creepy

2011-09-01T10:57:00.002-05:00

creepy people are creepy. the end.

THIS BLOG WILL RETURN ON: 10.01.11

another reason i ♥ steve jobs

2011-08-25T08:21:00.003-05:00

Some of his best quotes, shared by a coworker, via The Wall Street Journal

We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn’t build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren’t going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.

When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.”

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“Look at the design of a lot of consumer products — they’re really complicated surfaces. We tried to make something much more holistic and simple. When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can often times arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions. Most people just don’t put in the time or energy to get there. We believe that customers are smart, and want objects which are well thought through.

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“Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it’s really how it works. The design of the Mac wasn’t what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it’s all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it. Most people don’t take the time to do that.

“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they’ve had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people.

“Unfortunately, that’s too rare a commodity. A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.”
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“This is what customers pay us for–to sweat all these details so it’s easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We’re supposed to be really good at this. That doesn’t mean we don’t listen to customers, but it’s hard for them to tell you what they want when they’ve never seen anything remotely like it. Take desktop video editing. I never got one request from someone who wanted to edit movies on his computer. Yet now that people see it, they say, ‘Oh my God, that’s great!"
steve jobs quotes on design and technology mac apple ceo

kings of leon doc

2011-08-20T16:37:00.003-05:00

I cannot wait.