New Favorite Website

Light Locations, a location agency in the UK, has some absolutely gorgeous houses, apartments, and shops featured on their site. Their clients include Vogue, GQ, Domino (RIP), Boden, and so many more…

After seeing a few of their locations pop up on one of my daily reads, I headed over to their site and just fell in love. The three pictured above are just a few of my many favs.

* New dream in life: to live in one of these places.

Seattle, here we come!

As much as I try to keep this semi design-related, I have to give a big shout out to my new marathon partner! Somehow I roped this beautiful lady into running with me (ok - she kind of roped me into it, too). Let's hope we have better luck than we did the last time we ran together: that's right, I'm talking about sophomore year, HVCHS student council presidential race. Sue and Brew for 2002! Still a little bitter about that loss.

Kareem Rizk

I'm working on some collages for one of my classes - while searching for some visual inspiration/motivation, I came across the work of Kareem Rizk, an Melbourne-based collage artist and designer. I just love the simple layouts in his pieces; the colors, vintage type, and bold shapes work so nicely together.

Check out more of his work on his website or at his etsy shop (Good news: 20% off his work until March 15. Bad news: still have to pay for international shipping.)

Working Girl

I did some serious spring (er, late winter) cleaning yesterday and came across a stockpile of my Paper Source business cards. They might be lacking points on the design-scale, but I think the letterpress makes up for it:


I kind of have a thing for business cards and have seemed to amass quite the collection - I've found that, more often than not, my favorites tend to be letterpressed. I think it's such an appropriate printing method for business cards - it just makes sense that something passed from one hand to another have such a tactile quality. Perhaps I'll post a few of my favorites later this week?

* Finding these makes me miss PS…well, mostly just the glory days of receiving a paycheck.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Wish list

Ever at a loss for a birthday/Christmas/Valentine's/general appreciation gift for me? This Japanese colored masking tape would be just fine, thank you.


Unfortunately sold-out in the States here /originally seen here and here / image via here

Jamie Oliver

I don't know what I love more - Jamie Oliver's voice, or the packaging for his new product line. Both are pretty gorgeous.

Designed by Pearlfisher, I am head over heels for the colors and type used in the packaging (particularly the hand-drawn type, done by illustrator Marion Deuchars). Sigh, if only my handwriting was that fabulous…

* Need a romantic Valentine's Day idea? Check out Jamie's Valentine's Day competition. Seems like the perfect way to procrastinate…