vday inspired

Daily Candy Illustrations

I am loving these illustrations on Daily Candy.

Tortoise Shell Flatware

I'm obsessed with tortoise shell. I found these on a blog that I just recently discovered call Dose of Design and the flatware is from Carloyne Roehm.

First day of internship = snow day

Why I missed my first day of my internship...

Boulder, Colorado

I just took a trip to Boulder, Colorado with Susan and Colleen to visit our friend Jen who goes to school at CU. We went saki bombing, explored the mountains, saw Boulder falls (which was frozen), saw CU campus, had kitchen dance parties, went on a brewery tour and tasted lots of really good Boulder beer. Basically to sum up the trip, I am in love with my friends and I am in love with Boulder. It was one of the best weeks of my life, it had been about two years since we had all been reunited.

While I was there I also got to visit another love of my life, tda advertising & design. Tda was my first choice for an internship this winter, but unfortunately it wasn't able to work out because they already have 4 long term interns (there's only about a dozen people that work there anyways). It was one big (but not huge) open room where everyone had their desks, with a dog running around and a massage chair from one of their clients. I met with the senior designer Matt Ebbing and the junior designer Sylvia Suh. Sylvia had actually just graduated from MICA last year and started working for tda this past summer. It was nice to talk to her considering she had just recently come from my position (being a senior at college about to graduate and enter the "real world"). She also said she would help me out with some Baltimore connections, considering all the teachers at Delaware aren't big on the Baltimore scene I could use a little help if thats where I might want to end up. I got a glimpse of what it might be like to work in a small agency, which I think I liked. While Matt and Sylvia had a conference call, I got to bother some of the "interns." They had all graduated in the past year or two from CU. They were really nice and easy to talk to. I checked out a couple of books they had lying around and hung out some more. I was surprised that for how small of a company they are (doing both advertising and design) that it was relatively split up and separate from each other. After a lot of their one on one attention, it was time for them to actually do some work so I said my goodbyes and thank yous and left! I totally could have seen myself interning there for a month or anywhere in Boulder because I liked it so much! Maybe after graduation!??

whhhyyy?

I think I want to redo my website... I thought I would never say that. Yesterday it came over me, I'm thinking the color scheme will be browns, blacks, and greys. I'm looking for some pictures for inspiration.

Krink

Krink products are the finest quality inks and markers on the market today. They are permanent paint markers that bleed down the wall for a graffiti look.

From looking through their gallery, I thought that some of the more interesting uses were for interiors as an accent on a wall or the shirts that the bartenders are wearing.

Enjoy Responsibly

Double vision cans for Guinness, "enjoy responsibly"

happy holidays

I had a lot of fun with Tattoo Santa. It's a way to send an email greeting personalized, by picking where on the body of santa you want to tattoo and what you want it to say. There's one option that you can add a picture to be tattooed onto his back.

On another note, I haven't posted anything in about a month... and I keep saying "oh, I want to put that on my blog" to everything I see or think about, but being away from school I am more distant from my computer (which I like). So, hopefully I will get around to it, a lot of it was holiday stuff... better late then never, right?

teapot

Came across this teapot on NOTCOT.

“If Apple did housewares, this might be the iPot. Designer Joey Roth calls his baby the Sorapot. It’s a radically minimalist reinterpretation of the teapot — a vision transforming a familiar, everyday item into something more like modern art. And, unlike many conventional teapots, the Sorapot’s glass and metal components are fully recyclable.” -Snarfd