The year I discovered Sagmeister

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London Design Festival – 2

Although the festival is now over for another year, here is some of the promotional collateral that Pentagram designed. 2nd post on the LDF, love this work though. Pics via Pentagram.

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Jeannie Jeannie

Jeannie Jeannie blog coming out of  NYC. ‘Lovingly curated by Jeannie Huang’. Seen via geekheartsaday thank you B.

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Thelma + Louise

Fab new blog. Thelma + Louise. Went to their first ‘crafternoon’ event last month, so am very pleased to see their blog now up and running…’This is a space they’ve created to share their ideas, show you the stuff they’ve been making and inviting you to the craft events they organise.’

Words and pic Thelma + Louise

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The Dø – Too Insistent

The Dø, heard via Dermot O’Leary’s Radio 2 show on Saturday. This track is absolutely amazing, also has been remixed by the supreme Trentmøller. They play Hoxton Bar and Grill on Nov 23rd. Anyone fancy it?

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Johanna Basford

Johanna Basford, scottish illustrator ‘and ink evangelist who prefers pens and pencils to pixels’. Rather lovely work on her site. Pics and words from her site.

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Stay hungry, stay foolish

Steve Jobs’ Commencement address delivered to Stanford University on 12 June 2005. A wonderful speech, so much insight and learning.

Thank you Heather for sharing on your site.

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Animal note cards – Melanie Kimmett

Cards by Melanie Kimmett,  (a fab designer from Vancouver with a fab blog).
You can buy them via Etsy‘s shop.

“A happy maker of cute paperie things here in Vancouver, Canada. I’m heavily influenced by clean, modern design and illustration but take many inspired cues from the quirky urban world around me. Every one of my greeting cards are printed on 100% recycled, FSC-certified paper.”

Words from the Etsy site, pics from Melanie Kimmett.

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Poppytalk

A wonderful blog called Poppytalk. Found via the wonderful Melanie Kimmett.

“Poppytalk is a Canadian (Vancouver-based) design blog collecting inspiration and dedicated to promoting emerging design talent” founded and run by husband and wife Jan and Earl.

They also run an “online street market (Poppytalk Handmade) to showcase, buy and sell handmade goods of emerging design talent from around the world.” Words and pic from Poppytalk.

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Samantha Hahn

Seen via the fab What Makes Us

Samantha Hahn, illustrator out of Brooklyn NYC. Too tired to write a full para but she also has a blog which has got some great work with new work, thoughts and links (kind of like a blog really!). Pics taken from What Makes Us and Samatha Hahn. Samatha’s blog

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