Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Sins of a Designer

Design & Inspiration

Type commandant #2 (#1 to me is proper kerning):
THOU SHALL NOT USE COMIC SANS.

Instead, here’s an alternative… Comic Jens!

Comic Jens

It’s not in English, but you can view a badly translated version of the page here.

Don’t you ever have an urge to fix the kerning on a poster you see on the streets or yell at the designer who made it? I know I do!! Look no further… print out these stickers and stick away. Check out Design-Police.org for more. Ahhh I love it.

Design Police

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Et-to-the-sy

Design & Inspiration

I was browsing through Etsy and came across a bunch of shops that I had to link.

The Toki Cafe. Since I was professing my undying love for dim sum in my last entry, check out Toki Café’s adorable little dim sum creations; I want one just so I can be reminded of Shui-Mai wherever I go. They also have sushi and 1-UP (OMGZBBQZ!!!). I loveee the 1-UP mushrooms. Check out their blog for latest project updates.

Candypop Creations. Just because I love everything to do with food.

BellatrixArt

Bella’s Gallery. I love her art; it’s very dark, gothic, moody and very mysterious in general. I needed paintings to hang around my room and I think I’m going to order some of hers to add to my already dark and gloomy room. You can see more of her art at bellas-playground.com.

Erinzam’s Shop. She has a billion awesome projects, especially some really cool bookmaking and binding projects. Definitely check this out if you are a designer! You can visit her blog at Vietnamese coffee on her blog and now I’m craving for it damnit. Vietnamese coffee is straight LOVE. Mmmmm.]

Carambatack Designs. Simply beautifully awesome illustrations and textures.

Spin Designs Inc. I’m so in love with the silhouettes embedded into their jewelry and mobile designs.

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Booti-ful Houses

Design & Inspiration

Inspired from one of my previous posts. Here is a collection of beautiful homes in the Garden District of New Orleans that I want to own some day…

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Wow today was probably the most exciting thing that’s ever happened to me. Having ANNE RICE comment on my blog is like having Justin Timberlake comment on other girls’ blog (I use that analogy because I don’t care much about JT). I’ll try my best not to but I’ll probably be blogging about this for days. Lol. Can you imagine if an author you totally admire and look up to takes their time to comment on something that you did? That feeling is so amazing and especially if you love love LOVE books like I do. My heart seriously skipped a beat when I read it and I just stared into my monitor for like 10 minutes not believing it. And not to mention that I was totally distracted from work for the rest of the day! :blush:

And no, I don’t think an “imposter” would be capable of writing like that unless it was just someone whose really determined to crush my hopes! If so, I would still like to think otherwise, thank you very much. Kidding.

I feel like a… teenybopper in a… ummm… Backstreet Boys concert.

But thank YOU for making my day. :)

But anyway, now I have no clue on what to blog about anymore. If Anne ever stumbles back here again, my words are soo unworthy for her eyes to read!

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