grain edit posted a post about another poster (person) who posted about the travel posters (wall art) of daphne padden, a british illustrator and designer. in the 50's and 60's, padden created posters for Royal Blue Coach Services (a UK bus company) which make up the majority of the collection shown. the rest of padden's posters are just as whimsical.
and you can see the collection here.
haven't posted for a while. but saw this online and thought it was cool. am shopping for a new apple product, and link leads to link and i found this little wonder: the earBuddy.
it carries your earbuds, in a tiny little case. now if i could only shrink my 3G ipod.
who's there? knock knock - a "semi-spanking new design company with aspirations to greatness" (so says their homepage banner).
knock knock is not a "store" but they do sell a bunch of cool items from to-do pads, library kits, to party banners that say, "mad props" and personal library kits for the books, movies, and music you might lend out. all the goods are fun and nicely designed - clean - sharp - funny - same stuff you can find at urban outfitters, without the jacked-up price.
"... i hope to find these under thee..."
so, to counter the upping of my dork factor with this post title and lead-in line, i'm offering the special little tid-bits i learned from an email newsletter sent to me by daily candy:
alpha, gear for gents is selling $50.00 lomography fisheye cameras for $37.50 with the check out code: ALPHDC. enter that code to recieve 25% off everything on that site.
DEALS is the code to recieve 25% off items at shop intuition (everything is pretty pricey to begin with, so you'd still be spending a lot of dough, but if you like a good deal, and that deal means saving 80 bucks off a dress that starts at 240, then go for it!).
and last of the deals i'm willing to tout is 25% off of bongenre.com items by entering the code: DCPLATES. the site is worth checking out even if you're not going to take advantage of the discount. it's full of cool melamine tableware in distinct patterns to rival your ikea shopping arch nemesis.
emigre's last issue, issue 69 - 10 years ago, i would giggle at the number, and now, the number in this context makes me nothing but sad. sad that the era of emigre is coming to a close.
yes, the fonts and posters will still be available, but ever since i read the print (or was it commarts?) article last year with rudy vanderlans, talking about his decision to end the magazine's 21 year run (the first issue was put together in 1984 in a 11.5" by 17" format) - i've been saddened. my subscription to the magazine had been halted after graduation, when they started charging for issues, and my constant moving every year had me hesitant to subscribe, my loss of packages both at work and home(s) had me hesitant to order, and did i forget to mention i'm a designer and have a designer's salary?
but i thought emigre'd be around forever. why wouldn't it? here was the reason i'd wanted to get into publication design and my first influence to pursue writing about design. emigre was my first publication design project - and the work and passion i put into helped me get into the good graces of my publication design teacher - who years later called me and said, "hey, i'm the creative director at my shop now, come bring in your book." it's been almost 5 years now since i graduated, and he's been my creative director ever since. i'm throwing a little of that credit (if not for also giving me the inspiration to continue in design rather than throwing it all out the window to become a professional waitress) towards emigre.
i thought emigre'd be around for other starry-eyed design students. but alas it's not. issue #69 is slated to come out late october. that's this month. i have nothing charming to say about this at all. i am presently throwing a temper tantrum. it's like the last episode of my so called life. except rudy vanderlans is jordan catalano, and i'm angela, and i have no closure here. no closure at all.
i got a cool sample from my clampitt rep the other day. one of the perks of listening to her talk about paper is getting cool paper samples. (and i'm not complaining - who doesn't like to talk about paper, right, especially when the talk is accompanied with swatchbooks and breakfast tacos)
this last time was payday - she brought me the latest issue of The Nose, pushpin's "publication designed to draw attention to relevant social issues as well as trivial ones."
each issue is 24 pages - all designed and illustrated by seymour chwast - and my hero, stephen heller, is the editor. for some reason, i'd not seen or heard of an issue before this last one. maybe it's bc i've been buried at work, buried in design lit that i felt i had to catch up with, or i became jaded after hearing about rudy vanderlan's retirement of emigre.
or maybe - and this is a good thing - the design world is finally so full of good stuff to read and look at, that we actually have too much to hear about, and therefore can miss hearing about cool pubs like The Nose. i remember when emigre was free. i was still in design school - and it was only after i graduated in 2001 that they started having to charge for issues bc of the demand for the issues.
it's also this plethora of wantable design materials that gives me reason to start a new category on desidiom. bc i'm a designer. and i need the presents of good design reading, posters, and fonts in my life.
and yes, i spelled presents correctly...
