TypeOh! Tuesday #54

Happy Tuesday, Y'all! I had the epiphany at the end of last week that I think in y'all's now, which I thought was kind of funny at first, then I realized it's sort of a big deal. I spent my first 20 years in upstate NY getting my long a's down (which just leads to rosy cheeks of embarrassment when I'm called out on it now), 2 extra long years spent in the great diversity of Savannah, which by the way yields not even the slightest southern twang on a northerner (just the thought of that twang contributed to my ambition to go) - then two years spent in a close suburb of atlanta and still nothing. I have been working in a very north georgia office for only 7 months now, and I'm thinking in y'alls. This is a big deal. I'm not sure how I feel about it just yet, or how often I'll let it slip on the phone calls back home with my family, but I think a decision is in order. How long can a northerner avoid y'all? Guess I'm going to find out.

Anyway, sorry to go off topic there. Today's type has nothing to do with that story, but here's some inspiration to get through the first half of this week!



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Thank You Cards

Another new graphic river item this week..a thank you card 5 pack! Also, for all of June, they reduced almost every tutorial to ONE DOLLAR (usually ranges around $3-$5 a piece)! I picked myself up 4 of em so far..pretty stoked! Got this, this, this, and this one. CSS Ninja? Don't mind if I do :)

listening to

these songs the past few days..

orange sky, Alexi Murdoch



sing again, Chris Walla



coin laundry, Lisa Mitchell

TypeOh! Tuesday #53

This week I'm rounding up a few of my favorite pieces of type found online. I love running across type that I have to stop and stare at, and really pull apart in my head. Finding so many great pieces just makes me love type that much more. Happy Tuesday!


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Vintage Celebration Kit

Happy Friday! Maybe it's just me but it took today foreverrrrr to get here this week. Got this little kit up on Graphic River earlier in the week; still playing around with vintage-y modern projects with some nice typography mixed in. I love the feeling you get when you can just tell you're getting better at something the more you do it. I think I'll stay in this little niche a tad bit longer before I move on to the next thing..still figuring out what that might be :) Anyway! I hope you have an AMAZING fun filled Memorial Day! I will be cleaning my apartment for good this time, hanging more things on my sad grey walls, and hopefully laying by a pool. See you next week!

Vintage Celebration Kit

TypeOh! Tuesday #52

Happy Tuesday!!! Today marks a full year of TypeOh!s. Pretty amazing. However long you've been along for the ride, thank you. It means a lot to be able to doodle my way to your computer screen each week. This week I've put together my favorites from the past year. If you're curious to see the evolution of my hand type from a year ago to today, check out my flickr. Kind of amazing how much you can improve on something so simple by sticking to it every week for a year :) The next year is going to be a little different than this past one with the typeohs. Since I've been working on (what seems like) a million different things on the side, I need to be smart about how/where I spread my time, as is probably the case with anything. I can't bring myself to throwing something together last minute when the weeks get longer than usual - because only the opposite of progress happens then. In an effort to maintain good quality of my work, I've decided to keep up with TypeOh! Tuesday every week, but some weeks it might be a post about great typography I find on the web, and others I'll throw something I draw in there. I hope you still stick around! Thanks again for hanging out :)

A year of TypeOh!s!


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new york city

The National Stationery Show + NYC

So I think I should warn you ahead of time how massive this post is. I guess you don't realize how much you actually experienced until you go through your capture-all-awesome-moments photo collection..which is what I ended up with. An amazing collection of amazing experiences elapsed over three unforgettable days.

After I arrived Saturday afternoon, we walked around the city, got some extra awesome ny pizza, then walked the brooklyn bridge later that night. It drizzled/misted a little, but just felt perfectly refreshing on such a cool night.











The next morning we got to Javits just before 730, just in time to get registered for the Seth Godin lecture and panel discussion! I was soooo stoked to see him speak, I had watched what seems like every talk he's done that have been put online. I never thought I'd be just a few rows back while he delivered one of his super inspirational talks! After the lecture, the show had gotten well underway and we went off to explore. One of the first things we came across was a paper runway, all of these dresses are made of paper!







And then it was off to the booths!













During the show, there was a 'recipe card scavenger hunt' with cards printed out of different paper stocks and processes. There were 15 in all scattered throughout the show, and of course I scavenged myself the full set!



Once we had a good first walk through of the stationery show, we headed over to the International Contemporary Furniture Fair, or ICFF. My friend Nina is an interior designer, so we went to check out some potential contacts for her. While she mingled, I guess I just took pictures of awesome lighting. Pretty funny, I didn't even realize that's what I was focusing on until I went through the photos!



(i love this little rain cloud)












..and it was all amazing because of my incredible friend, Nina. (That's her, on the left :)