Though this is the impulse shopping of a college-budget graphic designer, so it’s reasonable. Sort of. Finals stress induced impulse shopping. I already have three yellow olfa knives (two skinny one heavy duty) and four x-actos (two regular and two gripster) but the silver one is so pretty! It’s so sleek! Someone stole my 12″ metal ruler a while back, but I have at least 8 other rulers, (I’m definitely underestimating that) metal, clear, between 6 and 36″, T-squares and protractors. And you can never have too many fine-tipped black pens. Especially since the tips wear out. So, no, I’m not buying $400 shoes, I’m buying tools I don’t reeeeally need that I will enjoy and use anyway for a whopping $15 :) But they make me happy I guess. What do you collect?
YESSS!!! Best day ever! One of my favorite package designs, Fruita Blanch, designed by Atipus, a studio in Barcelona that produces gorgeous work (and just updated their website by the way), has made their font family, Blanch, available for free download (Download the TrueType font family zip file here). They made some beautiful prints on the Blanch typeface page, nice big images, and you get to see the studio.
Still have about fifty bajillion things to do but I’m workin’ on it. Final crit is a week from Thursday, so, no pressure, y’know?
well you decide. Reminiscent of the spinning wheel of death when your Mac freezes. Also, kinda nice and peaceful and hypnotizing and distracting me from finals stress. Here’s a rainbow spinny wheel for you to stare at for as long as you want :) enjoy. I don’t know why I posted this. I’ll post better stuff soon. (I found this on Swiss Miss.)
My friend Amanda showed me how to use her mechanical button maker! Check out the buttons I made :) Cool process.
stream of consciousness 