to accompany guster's new single from the album easy wonderful: "do you love me."

to those who stick it out, to my friends, i love you.

too much design!

I forgot to post this from Friday. Color board + a happy list.

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++ 100 colors & 100 days of writing (jennifer robichaux, this is your summer project.)

++ field notes, why are you so beautiful?

++ i'm totally in love with the t.25 car. it's designed to be recycled once it's life is up, and made into another car. it's gets 61 mpg and is smaller than a smart car, but fits 3 adults. smart redesign. i'm also loving the diorama photos.

Bruce Mau's Incomplete Manifesto.

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I'm (still) reading Glimmer, and I find Bruce Mau crazy and totally wonderful. His Incomplete Manifesto is full of inspiration "rules" for life/design. I'm going to make these on cards and try to lay out one a day, or at least a few a week.

friday morning i got downtown super super early, so i decided to get coffee from byrds and take a walk.

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it's been a very nice weekend.

some links:

++ luke beard. yes. please.

++ the beard's photostream

++ DIY picture frame tray (i'm doing this tomorrow)

++ DIY lamp (part of this is sitting on my desk!)

++ i have successfully cleaned off my $5 eames chair! CRAZY. (it's the bottom right.)

++ i would like this fabric to re-upholster a chair

:)

find a place to jump in to the blue

i couldn't get a good picture, but aren't these neons great? this place is now a bar.

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near the hobby center.

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at work, i take little breaks to stretch my brain, eyes, and pen.

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i really do believe that only boring people get bored. and inversely, i think i'm becoming boring because of all the boredom that occurs throughout the day. i think i now know that actually, i do need to interact with people. an office/workspace is great. but not for 8 hours. i do not want a 9-5 job my entire life, that i know for sure.

reading glimmer and the wisdom of bruce mau is so interesting, and really reframing my perspective on businesses and consumer goods/services in general. i'm trying to fit together a few different things, like how design can reach a broad amount of people, or how it can affect people... or working alongside the non-profit world.

i'm obsessed with poco-cocoa and abbytrysagain. thankgoodness for austin in two days.

i want you like coffee

(this one is my favorite.)

amazing public art project in philadelphia. a love letter for you.

so very young, were we

+ continuing my design sketching. top two are from jack kerouac's on the road (of which i am fighting to finish. 20 more pages!). last is from death cab's 'talking bird.' the open door ep version is so pretty and sad.

+ the fonts are new! myfont.com has really nice free fonts. museo, mimix, & coolvetica, in order.

+ noble beast is andrew bird's best, for sure.

+ today was a day of on-a-whim (driving, eating, buying, moving furniture,etc.)

+ coffeeshop count: three.

+ happy easter/passover!

oh mr eaves!

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1. Yes, I do realize it is no longer 2009, but I Love Typography's favorite fonts of 2009 is glorious.

2. And I am so excited, because one of my favorite typefaces, Mrs Eaves, has a companion! The sans serif Mr Eaves!

3. more later.