March 25th, 2009 by samanthatroy 
I came across Gretchen Nash‘s work last night, and was basically blown away by (and pretty envious of) her book Dear Gretchen,. I haven’t seen the actual book, but it looks pretty fabulous — I am a big fan of art that catalogs fairly mundane life events, old letters, and interesting charts and graphs (in this case, charts made of paper).



This is what she has to say about her book:
An extensive book that investigates letters that I have kept inside a luggage case since my childhood. The process of the book included finding the word and phrase frequency of the letters, categorizing them by sender, by date, and finally writing personal reflections about each of the senders. Graphs were constructed to reveal the word frequency and each of the 187 letters were thoroughly documented inside of the book.
Gretchen is a recent graduate of California Institute of the Arts, and her book Dear Gretchen, was selected as a finalist in the 2008 Adobe Design Achievement Awards.
via Quipsologies
March 20th, 2009 by samanthatroy 
On Fridays, we thought it would be fun to feature something relating to typography. Today’s “Font-y Friday” is the Muni logo. It was designed by Walter Landor in the mid-seventies and is still in use. Aside from liking it formally, I also think it is great that they haven’t felt it necessary to modernize it with gradients or something.
March 18th, 2009 by samanthatroy 
Three Potato Four is a great online shop that has a really cool, very well curated mix of design-y and vintage products. On their blog, I ran across this fantastic paper sample from 1966. I love the use of color and am pretty much always a fan of wood type.
March 17th, 2009 by samanthatroy 
We’ve just added some new Mother’s Day card to our Etsy shop. We’ve been having a lot of fun with hand-drawn type lately, and while there is a lot going on on the card, but we are pretty happy with the results.

Click here for a few other Mom’s Day appropriate cards.
Mother’s Day is May 10th (in the US and Canada, at least).

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