tiny bubbles

has anyone noticed the amazingness that is pop cans as of late (diet coke, coke, pepsi)? Here are some people who have:

+jon berry
+amnesia blog

compositions

The other day at a little gallery opening, bill started taking pictures of "compositions" - snippets of what you're wearing that make a pleasing picture. I've actually been doing this awhile since I started documenting what I wear from day to day, so I thought it might be interesting to put some together.

color block

i was going to write about my most favorite house in minneapolis (if not the whole universe) today, but it turns out that street view doesn't even get near it - who knew Linden Hills was not good enough for street view? I'll have to take a picture of it later.

But then, low and behold, what lays on my desk at work but the new JCREW CREW CATALOG? I like JCrew because their clothing is mostly too expensive for me and looks boring in store, but whoever designs, art directs, and styles their catalogs are all geniuses. They play with color very well, and the type is so hot I would prefer not to even talk about it. Let's just look, shall we? You can see all the pages here. Some are great, although once it gets into the guy's stuff it's kind of boring.

stoli?

When my parents came and visited me last they brought me a few little goodies, including a little plastic bag from Expo 67 - from the USSR booth! ohoho how funny. All historical references aside, check out the color blocks on this thing! I love how strong each design looks, very solid. My favorite is probably the can on the bottom - I like the intersecting colors and all the different kinds of type. Very very wonderful.

Also, saw the new Bond film over the weekend and really liked it. Thought the whole "revenge" plot line was mildly unnecessary, but who really cares? The action was frantic and tots awesome and the TYPOGRAPHY. woah. I am not an expert in type, but in myyyy opinion I thought all the location cards were really wonderful. You can look at screencaps from them here and look at more work from Tomato, the always impressive people who did them, here.

a winner is me!

So this morning I took a shower real quick-like, threw on some clothes and hopped on over to Spyhouse. I didn't check my e-mail since I was in a hurry - my landlord's helper was going to be in our apartment, and recently he has become just friendly enough that I get really awkward and have to pretend like there's something else I need to be doing just so that I don't have to make small talk whilst he's looking at our broken toilet. Yes, this is how my brain works sometimes.

Anyway, I get to Spyhouse, and LO AND BEHOLD WHAT DOTH AWAIT ME IN MY E-MAIL INBOX?! Yes, oh joy, an e-mail from weardrobe.com informing me that I had won their "scarves are the new black" contest and would I please give them my address so I could perhaps receive my totally sweet giftcard to H&M? YES PLEASE! This was exactly what I needed to start my week off, given last week was fairly typical of an art school student who has recently graduated (worrying about: job,student loans,money,work,creativity,talent,etc). HOORAY!


also, this marks the first time I have ever been interviewed via e-mail (they'll be posting the interview later). a new day dawns.

p.s. AND TO TOP IT OFF, the wonderful Alli-san featured me during her stint as guest blogger over at The Minneapoline. Sweet!

ohhh heyyyy

I spy with my little eye a real life usage of my Trihart font! Seems as though the very talented Johnathon McNicol or Never Mind That Now used my one and only real font for a little Kurt Vonnegut project. If you want to see all of it, and golly it looks nice, it's ready for download on the blog!. This makes me excited! I always wanted to see something I did at YWFT put into use.... I just wonder if there's anything else out there.....

oh what our eyeballs do

Forced perspective is hilarious! There's a good flickr group for it that I would spend all day looking at if I didn't have to go to work.