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Space Fashion Mid 1900’s to Now

Even if you don’t believe the space program is real, the people over at BrainPickings have unravelled something interesting…as always. Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo is “a fascinating voyage into the sartorial history of space flight through the parallel history of one of its key technologies: the spacesuit.” It mixes some awesome

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Save the Date

I have had the great privilege of designing save the dates and a wedding set for my good friend, Joe, and his fiancé. I’m trying to decide between some nice paper choices for them and keeping the cost down, but here is a sneak peak.

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Apple iCam

Number 16253 on why I LOVE industrial designers, yet can never be one myself. I stumbled across this visionary work from designer Antonio DeRosa and his concept for the iCam–somewhat of a supplement to the up and coming iPhone 5. From the site petapixel: Smartphones have already invaded the compact

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LittleLipsum

One of my co-workers at Topic caught me onto this little gem in the App Store called LittleLipsum. If you’ve heard of it, it’s amazing; if you haven’t need to get it. Basically, if you design layouts (print or web) and use greek/dummy text this app let’s you pull as

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Introducing Lytro

I stumbled across this article on Fast Company’s page reveling about the new Lytro camera. What is so cool about this camera is the fact that not only do you not need to focus the lens causing no lag for the shutter, but also a sleek design and only 1

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Moveable Type

I was surfin’ the ‘net the other day and I came across this awesome idea from designer and letterpress enthusiast Kyle Durrie. She has a unique idea on how to take all her beloved passions and mash it into one sweet idea. Enter a bread truck, some antique letterpress machines,

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Cinemagraphs

There seems to be a fad going around in the design circuits that I really enjoy. Closely related to cinematography, this is the act of incorporating subtle motion within still photographs via a gif file. There’s a majority out there online that show fire moving, or hair blowing in the

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OFFF Cincinnati

Have you ever heard of the OFFF Festival that has taken the world by storm? I haven’t either, mostly because it was over seas and not int he states. Well, on their 2011 tour this year, they are making it to my home city of Cincinnati. OFFF Cincinnati will be

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Photography Day

Man, I can really make my studio room look like something straight from Saw…

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Good Fucking Design Advice

Do you ever need a little extra oomph in your day to make it through? Or really just need to hear those words that someone should tell you about design? Well, Good Fucking Design Advice is what the doctor ordered. Started as a side project while in graduate school, GFDA

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