Peter Vogel

A Portland artist + thing maker, Peter is a former creative director with a passion for typography and now furniture design. For a reasonable fee, he'll create (new) vintage signs or reproduce any old ones you might have your eye on. Else hearts Peter. Visit the Nutmegger Workshop >>

sent to me by my piece of chocolate cake of a husband, Ren Awesome Blake.

doyald young

Very sad to learn this morning that logotype designer Doyald Young has passed. He was 84. An advocate for craftsmanship and precision in typography, his work is beyond brilliant.

lynda.com has a couple of Doyald videos you must check out.
(thank you for sharing, Ralston, via "Nanners")

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more chalk ♥

I despise caramel (i'm going somewhere with this). And do you know why? Because I have the gift of "obsession until sick", is what my mother calls it. When Else Cake was 8ish, she spent an entire allowance on a giant bag of hard caramels, her favorite. I knew if I went home my mom was going to make me share them with my mean, mean brothers so instead, I climbed up my neighbor's tree and ate the entire bag. I got sick. The end.

Chalk lettering & drawing is becoming my caramels. I'm obsessing. I'm pretty sure I'll be sick of it before long and will feel ill at the sight of it. But for now? I'm up in the tree feeling nothing but love for it.

xoxo,

Else Pooh

PS: Oh, geez. By the way, this is Dana Tanamachi. She's a Brooklyn based letterer & graphic designer. I ♥ u, Dana.

will bryant

i would like to shake hands with will bryant some day. his site & blog are another rabbit hole.
check him out with his pants down (not really) >>

this is how you design a magazine cover

by will bryant, for bluetooth, via will bryant's blog

the most fun i had this morning

and it's not even 6am yet. wow. huge awesome time waster: sketch.odopod.com

jake teitelbaum

magnificent designer mr. jake teitelbaum and i worked together for a while and was always asking to keep "scraps" that fell off his table (sketches, drawings, napkin ideas). this is some of his work (above) and it makes me drool.

I hope Chicago is treating you alright, Jakey! :)

chalkboard kitchen wall

I did it. Took about 4 hours, a can of chalkboard paint, a jug of orange juice (not required, I was just craving it) and some chalk. Made that corner a little cozier (another word for smaller) but my dear daughter & husband have a space to doodle. Ta da!

PS: it was 11pm when I decided to do this and miss impatient me did not prep the wall correctly so if I dig in real hard with a nail, some paint may scratch off. boo-hoo. my fault. i'm sure i'll be posting a rant about it later... for now though? happy as pie. :)

doodle & draw

this reminds me of my meeting planner at work. I doodle & draw constantly. I should scan that crap & make a series out of it. LOVE doodling! :) found on Flickr >

blind countour

Mondays blow. And I have to go to the dentist today. Ugh. So here's a blind contour of my desk this morning - which looks just as sad as I feel right now. You can clearly tell I haven't had any caffeine AND haven't drawn in a looong time. Happy Monday!