OH. MY. GOD.

if this came out when i was 7 years old, i would have been the youngest person to have a coronary.

this. is. amazing.

JONATHAN ADLER BARBIE!

JONATHAN ADLER BARBIE COUCH!

there is also a SLEW of other, grownup items designed for Barbie-lovers.

holy friggin crap.

jonathanadler

work in progress

so my bedroom is still a little dry. although i painted the walls and got the linens and the curtains and the rug, it's lacking something. beyond a headboard and "perfect" art on the walls, there is an element that I needed to replace and now I know what it is!

My side table!
at present, it's a plexiglass nesting table which i love but lacks the
heart to be a part of my bedroom.

I'm gonna order this adorable hand crocheted pouf from le souk and put my silver Moroccan tray on top of it.
verrrry excited.

lesouk

holy moly

this woman will never ever cease to amaze me.

i may be crafty, but i would NEVER think of this.

this DIY is truly truly GENIUS.

click here for project from justsomethingimade

AMAZING!

before.after

one of my favorite things is product/brand re-design before's and after's. i love seeing how something that has such a presence can get re imagined by someone. that is not my strong suit, creatively, at all. I am sometimes a fan of evolutionary re-design, where something is similar ad is a step away from what it was, but i LOVE revolutionary designs where things are just like crazy different. i would love to know how to take something SO familiar to people but competely re-do it without losing the character and integrity of the product or brand.

my favorite revolutionary re-design of ALL time is the Good Housekeeping seal by my favorite branding/graphic designer Louis Fili.



here are some more of my favorite before and afters from TheDieline.


i think in the 90s, packaging got a little busy.
people wanted to know more about the contents and benefits of their purchases, coupled with mass amounts of competition, leads to TMI. I love how clean things have become, and how the shelves of the supermarkets - AND the supermarkets themselves - are just lookin' so zipped up.

Of course, people will get bored of this "everyone's a graphic designer" stuff - look around - EVERYTHING is getting re-designed. i passed an irish pub with faux capital sans serif fixed width wording on their window. it was kind of a little much. however, i do appreciate the sentiment.

people respond to pretty.

speak now

this is in honor of the atrocity that is phil spector's mugshot.

what an effing creepoid!


here are some badass respectable mugshots of some badass respectable people.

up up and away!

UP WAS GREAT!
RUN, don't walk to the theatre!

and if you can see it in 3-D, like we did, you SHOULD!!

my girls and i had a wonderful time watching it.


i think one of the things we enjoyed the ABSOLUTE MOST was the Short right before it, called "Partly Cloudy".

It managed to break all of our hearts in 6 minutes.

UPDATE! DANG IT WAS DISABLED! well go see UP so you can see "Partly Cloudy"!

so great.

this kind of broke my heart in the best possible way .


thisamericanlife #223: theclassifiedz