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Musings Of A Stationery Designer

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Design | Journal

Design | Journal

I love looking at other designers journals for ideas and inspiration….  this one is from sfgirlbybay. Victoria is such an inspiration on a daily basis for me!

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Moleskin | Inspiration

Moleskin | Inspiration

I am inspired by Anna Rusakova’s portfolio.. love the grouping called “My Moleskin”… fantastic!

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Hint | Color

Hint | Color

found on searching for beauty

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Inspire | Britain

Inspire | Britain

via iamreeh via carouselinparis via ellipsed via ellipsed via morethanoneword Inspired by all of the design around the Union Jack.

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Next | Week

Next | Week

Next week is letterpress week.. check out all the fantastic things going on at oh,hello,friend!

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Color | Whimsy

Color | Whimsy

via emmas designblog

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Simple | Silhouette

Simple | Silhouette

I love the element of silhouettes in design and decorating… via country living

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Love | Cities

Love | Cities

I am smitten with a series of screen prints by artsharksdesign of couples in love in different cities.. always featuring red umbrellas. Love these!

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Garamond | Game

Garamond | Game

I am working in black and white this morning. I think Ann-Sofie Donning’s Garamond concentration game is super nifty… great design and typography! via behance

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Matchbook | Design

Matchbook | Design

I love the graphic elements on these matchbooks. Via jekemp @flickr.

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Staple | Art

Staple | Art

French artist Baptiste Debombourg created these entirely out of staples! Amazing..

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Lilly Pulitzer | Animal Crackers

Lilly Pulitzer | Animal Crackers

Deliciously Designed! The classic red circus-train on the Nabisco Barnum’s Animal crackers have a new look! Lilly Pulitzer has teamed up with Nabisco to transform the boxes with her iconic bright pink and green! One million of these special-edition boxes are being produced! Check out the whole article on stylelist to see how Lilly and [...]

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Dainty | Pink

Dainty | Pink

I am designing with Pantone 190C and am enjoying the inspiration from the archives of {this is glamorous}. Following are some photographs from her delightful blog that capture the feminine quality of the stationery I am creating. Enjoy!

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Matryoshka Dolls | In Design

Matryoshka Dolls | In Design

I love these minimalist Pantone Matryoshkas by designer Yar Rassadin. Rassadin, an art-director and product designer out of Moscow, also has a set similar to these in shades of black called Ninja Matryoshka. Bit, byte, kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte and terabyte take shape of Matryoshkas to make the right sequence in white, available from Art. Lebedev [...]

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Yummy | Desktop Calendar

Yummy | Desktop Calendar

Chocolate & Zucchini is serving up delicious desktop calendars that she posts monthly for her fans. For April, she has featured sugar-studded brioches – the recipe is attached via that link also. Clotilde Dusoulier and her Parisian food musings are delightful!

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Huset | Savvy Design

Huset | Savvy Design

Huset is chock full of savvy and thoughtful products. I love the collection of unique pieces that they carry – these are some of my favorite finds: 1| Design House Stockholm Carrie Bicycle Basket 2| Allrum’s Decorative Tape 3| Allrum’s Tile Stickers 4| Design House Stockholm Poem Cup Saucer by Katarina Häll 5| Sagaform Porcelain [...]

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Falling in love | J.Crew Fall Lookbook for 2010

Falling in love | J.Crew Fall Lookbook for 2010

I am a J.Crew-junkie. I admit it… I bet they have some sort of therapy for people like me. I am a collector and find so much inspiration with their clothing. The new lookbook for Fall 2010 is gorgeous. I love the textures and patterns mixed with a hint of color. Jenna Lyons’, the creative [...]

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Do Ho Suh’s | Miniature House

Do Ho Suh's | Miniature House

This weekend I was reading Paper City while having a salad at Cafe Express and ran across a two page spread of Contemporary superstar Do Ho Suh’s remarkable miniature house installation which is on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. It is called Fallen Star 1/5, part of the traveling exhibition  “Your Bright [...]

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Fantastic Communal Art Project {Out of New Zealand}

Fantastic Communal Art Project {Out of New Zealand}

Check out this great communal paint-by-numbers project out of New Zealand! Fantastic idea – this one benefiting an art auction for a trust fund for an art charity! Watch This Wall posts often with updates on the project by clients & friends!

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Art with {Jell-o}

Art with {Jell-o}

My friend Kerry pointed me to a link of gabriella corter and her photography using Jell-o! I wanted to share it with you because it is so whimsical and .. unique.. and it is really interesting. I grew up in New Orleans where they have babies in king cakes – so somehow this is intriguing [...]

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Collage {Inspiration}

Collage {Inspiration}

Have you seen this beautiful collage work from a former security guard at the MET? It was created out of fine auction catalogs! Each one is unique and so amazing…. what interesting pieces of new art and what a great eye!  You can see the whole collection at Lowest Bidder. Thank you Design Sponge for [...]

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Papercuts {by Joe}

Papercuts {by Joe}

Papercuts by Joe is an amazing etsy shop that does custom silhouettes  hand-cut from a single piece of black paper and mounted to acid-free white mat board. I don’t think I even had skills like this in design school.. these are so intriciate and really neat… talent, I say!

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