obviously…
I need to recreate my Wordle after the Duggar post falls off the page…
Add comment August 5th, 2008
Posts filed under 'design'
Font Conference…
Ok, so this Font Conference clip was mildly amusing… until Comic Sans came in to save the day.
Add comment August 4th, 2008
imaginary friends…
So my imaginary bench will need some company and I think I’ve found him a perfect friend in this planter.
Ok, so maybe it’s a ways down on the “actually purchase” list, but I love it nonetheless. In fact, go look through the Architectural Pottery site — they have tons of cool MCM pottery, including the ubiquitous bullet planter. But I have my heart set on this little dude. And, as a bonus, I was thinking maybe I could dress it up as a spaceship for Halloween!
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Add comment July 3rd, 2008
benched…
We’ve been oh-so-slooooowly renovating the exterior of the house. We’ve added one metric f-ton of mulch (and by we, I mean the hubby). Lots o’ plants. And, a couple of weeks ago, we finally installed the new storm door (that’s been sitting in the front hall for four months). And by “we,” I, again, mean someone else — mostly my dad.
So now that the major hardware in front is looking halfway presentable, it’s time to look at the rest. And, honestly, the front stoop (man, I love that word) just bores me to tears. We have a cool mailbox, and a really cool doorbell which, apparently, attracts toddler fingers with a force similar to that of the North Pole). The avocado green door will be painted, just as soon as we can figure out a color (so, eh, maybe October). On my wish list is slate tile to cover the ugly slick concrete and a bench. I didn’t even know I wanted a bench because, hey, we’ve got giant buckets of sidewalk chalk and various wiffle balls and plastic golf clubs for ornamentation. Then I saw this bench.
Now, I am not usually a big fan of benches — eh, a bench is a bench — but I’m lusting after this one. Alas, it’s $300. For a plastic bench. I’m thinking maybe the design is simple enough that I can manage this one as a DIY. And when I say “DIY,” I, of course, mean “Oh, Daaaaaaad!”
1 comment June 25th, 2008
yoo-hoo! you, in the city of angels…
So, any of you loyal readers in LA? If so, please make a mental note about the Modernica Warehouse Sale on June 7.
Do you understand the plan? Let’s review, just to be clear: Wait for June 7 (or perhaps the day before if you want to camp out and really impress me), head to this big ol’ warehouse sale, grab any and all light blue and/or orange and/or white Eames shell chairs that you can find, then ship them all to me.
Mission accomplished.
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Add comment May 29th, 2008
I’m completely floored…
by this unbelievably all-white space featured in NY Magazine. Â
In the words of my hero Ralph Wiggum… “That’s unpossible.”Â
2 comments May 16th, 2008
here, amuse yourselves…
with the rather difficult Font Game. I scored 27. I’d be embarrassed by that score except for two things. One, some of them were weird, off-the-wall, you’d-never-use-in-a-million-years-unless-some-client’s-wife-loved-it faces. Two, my head is full of snot and, at the moment, my sleep-deprived self is doing good to differentiate between Futura and Times New Roman (eh, it’s Times — it doesn’t rate a link).Â
Hey, at least they didn’t ask about Comic Sans… Â
Add comment May 6th, 2008
purrrrrrrr…
So let’s just start with the fact that I *heart*Â Pantone books. There’s just something about ALL OF THOSE COLORS! ALL THE POSSIBILITIES! that makes me downright giddy. I have a set of books that I’ve owned since graduation (where we did, in fact, have Pantone colors taped to the tops of our mortarboards), in it’s handy little case, safely stored away in a dark drawer so as not to fade my precious colors.Â
A few weeks ago, I ran across this house on Flickr that honestly just blew me away. I swear, if I had super high ceilings, massive amounts of time and painter’s tape and a willing husband, I’d totally go for this look.  But I don’t. So, alas, no Pantonization of the house. Â
Until yesterday, when I spied these stairs over on Apartment Therapy. Oh yeah. I’ve been trying to figure out what to do with our basement stairs — they desperately need work and we were thinking of painting but hadn’t settled on anything yet. There are tearsheets laying around the house of various painted staircases, some of which I really liked, but nothing that I lurved. The main problem was that most of these had the treads painted, some in white (ack!) and I just couldn’t see that working for this five-person, two-cat, minimal-cleaning household. The Pantone stairs will work. Ok, so we won’t use the actual Pantone paint because we’re not bazillionaires, but I’ll break out my trusty swatch book and start picking colors now. For 13 risers. Egads… that should take, oh, three or four months. Anyone have any requests?Â
1 comment April 24th, 2008
C + M = I CAN-D…
I, for one, am glad that Corian Loves Missoni because the love child of that union is a color explosion, the likes of which you have never seen…Â
1 comment April 23rd, 2008
there’s only one thing wrong…
with this Push It! shirt from Threadless and it is most definitely NOT the fact that there are tiny tubes of paint pooping all over the place. That is the BEST thing about it. But the colors suck. I mean, really SUPER suck. The look on that yellow paint’s face though… man, that more than makes up for it!
1 comment April 21st, 2008