i’m working on going full-time with live from bklyn, so i’ve not had the time to devote to blogging. when i escape this hi-rise and settle into williamsburg, i promise i’ll be back.

the public theater in new york have placed these ads (click header) all over the subway and buses and other places in the city and for that i am very glad. obviously a great concept with the ornamental hair on the skull and a dandy bit of execution too. i don’t know who designed them though. if anyone has any information on that subject please comment.

michelle and i picked up a couple of nice greeting cards from print icon. two things went through my head when i saw these; 1. these are awesome. 2. i want to design greeting cards. so hanna werning, you are awesome, and beaumonde cards, please let me do some work for you.

i’m gonna have to ask designers everywhere not to stoop to this. i rarely, if ever, write about designer causes on this blog, but this one really gets under my skin. it cheapens you and it cheapens your industry.

imagine if i did this with burgers. so there i am in line at the shake shack in madison square park. i’ve just ordered my burger and the cashier says “$7.00″ or whatever. and i say, “well, let me just taste the burger first, and if it’s better than the burger i just tasted at dumont, then i’ll pay for it and eat the whole thing. if not, i’m gonna go back to dumont and eat that whole burger and only pay for that one.” they’d knock me into the middle of central park for that.

my wife is too modest to post about her own etsy treasury on her blog, so leave the shameless click-pandering to me. please click here and click on every item on the page and also leave a nice comment. if you have an etsy account it would probably be best to be logged in to clickify.

i’m classifying this one as type, though what i really like about this ad is the concept. i think it’s funny, mostly ’cause i’ve been there once or twice. click to see.

this is nice. the type at the bottom has a nice rhythm. by jack crossing. i just used nice twice, no three times in as many sentences. i am not very descriptive. i will now go to bed.

has it really been since may 8th that i’ve spoken to you all? let’s break the silence in a big way. this smell the flowers print from monkey powered is nothing short of awesome. i think hot pink is my favorite color right now. i know boys aren’t supposed to like hot pink, but if loving pink is wrong, i don’t wanna be right.

nate duval’s gocco bird is awesome.

free fonts are generally a thing to be avoided, but this liberation serif has got it going on. love the taper on the serifs, four weights, pretty good auto kerning and a very extensive glyphs palette. this is definitely worth the download.

decoylab have some fine clocks and what not at their etsy store, but i would like to bring some attention to their shipping label (click header). magnifico.

i wrote this post about brezinka design a while back. wayne has since updated with some dandy new work.

i was looking on the web for some used letterpress equipment for sale. i soon discovered that i have neither the money nor the room for letterpress at the time, but i also discovered that just my type letterpress have some nifty greeting cards. i especially dig the retro sport series.

appetite engineers have a nice piecy, collagy style. and a strange penchant for cats.

thanks to chantel ingram of BCIT’s school of computing and academic studies for bringing to my attention the work of orgut cayli. orgut pulls off the “maximalist” look with minimal clutter.

brad surcey via the ever-fresh serif. so very beautiful, i’m gettin’ misty-eyed just looking at it. this one made it into all three categories; print, ornament, and type.

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normally i’m not a big fan of digital prints, but this one from still dottie in seattle really does the trick. nice rhythm.

gary taxali has so much great work that i had a hard time choosing which image to use for the header. it’s all very fine.

otterball have some fine specimens in their print & branding section.

like this.

my header is still messed up if your on a subpage of this site, but only in firefox. i’m working on it (sort of). sorry if it’s driving you crazy, it certainly is me. also, sorry for accidentally switching the comments off. they’re back on now.

while i’m still going to have a narrow focus, i’d like to expand it a bit. i’m adding two new categories; type and ornament. i’m focusing my studies in design to the medium of print, with motifs of type and ornament, so i want to explore those a little more on this site as well.

on to the main event. this is one of the more awesome things that i’ve seen on the web lately (thank you stumbleupon).

some rock’n'roll print design from josh kenyon.

not much time today, so just linking to notcot. check out this awesome printedness when you have a moment. also, sorry if my header is a tad jacked-up. i’ll fix it soon.

the only way i know how to describe this work by barral fabien is graphic brilliance.

the dieline, “the leading package design blog,” does indeed have some fine package design specimen offerings. take this post on these nusa kitchen soup containers. brilliant concept, great execution.

so, i’m back blogging again, but my portfolio page won’t be back up for a little while. i’m still figuring some stuff out. think of it as a preemptive april fool’s joke.

i do have some eye candy for you. from madethought, a uk based firm, comes this lovely yauatcha packaging. click on the header above, or browse to recent projects/yauatacha on the madethought site.

i’m taking a short timeout from blogging while i do a re-stage of my web assets. be sure to check back on april 1st when the graphic style comes back live from bklyn.

what could be better than one spot + black printed on matte stock? not many printed pieces that i can think of. the abstract flower made out of articles of clothing is a nice concept. and that. . . that pantone orange color. . . it’s, it’s intoxicating. i must know what it is. (click header to view more images.)

and with all the money that banana republic is gonna be raking in with the lowest interest rate being 14%, they can afford to have a credit card application this fancy.

tim french sends a link to this red hook sugar refinery remains print by artist greg lindquist in collaboration with kingsland printing.