The Noun Project

Posted: September 2nd, 2011 | Filed under: art/design | No Comments »

I love sim­ple, clean icons, and com­ing across this site via swiss-miss makes me really happy! The Noun Project’s mis­sion is “shar­ing, cel­e­brat­ing and enhanc­ing the world’s visual lan­guage”, which they accom­plish through shar­ing free symbols.

It’s not clear where this col­lec­tion of sym­bols comes from exactly, but the they do an excel­lent job at main­tain­ing con­sis­tency of scale and style.

This is sure to be a great resource when con­cept­ing logos or identities.

Good Infographics

Posted: August 6th, 2011 | Filed under: art/design | 1 Comment »

I love me a good info-graphic, and wouldn’t you know, this site has a whole lot of excel­lent ones.

Ned Wenlock: “Apache” for Danger Beach

Posted: August 1st, 2011 | Filed under: art/design | No Comments »

Awe­some lit­tle motion graph­ics piece.

adele philinda slayton

Posted: January 21st, 2011 | Filed under: art/design, family/friends | No Comments »

Hot off the presses! Adele is mak­ing her big debut with her own cus­tom birth announce­ments! I just fin­ished these up, com­plete with use of my cur­rent fav font, Adelle.

my obsession with antlers

Posted: November 30th, 2010 | Filed under: art/design, house | No Comments »

I recently learned about about some­thing called shed hunt­ing. It’s the prac­tice of “hunt­ing” for antlers that some of our four-legged friends shed every year. This all started when I dis­cov­ered The Antler Lady, who cre­ates long-lasting chew toys for dogs out of shed antlers. As the owner of a dog who can make quick work of toys that tout them­selves as “inde­struc­tible”, I was intrigued by the promise of a chew toy that would last for months. And, although the antler only lasted a week, it by far out­lasted any­thing else I’ve bought for dis­tructo dog­gie. I’m hooked.

Sud­denly I’m see­ing antlers every­where! I came across these charm­ing antler hooks from Antler & Co today on apartmenttherapy.com and I’m set on mak­ing one! So, back to shed hunt­ing. Must find antlers… The sea­son is typ­i­cally from December-February which means I have a few weeks to find some­one who knows where to look for the antlers. I’m on the case.

Doggies painting

Posted: November 29th, 2010 | Filed under: art/design | No Comments »

I fin­ished this paint­ing a cou­ple months ago and have been want­ing to share it. All I have at the moment is a cell phone pic­ture, so I have to admit I doc­tored it in PS a lit­tle. I used reg­u­lar inte­rior paint on a 3/4″ piece of wood, then coated the whole thing with epoxy which gives it a won­der­ful thick gloss (like a bar top).

DIY Wall Garden

Posted: September 23rd, 2010 | Filed under: art/design, gardening, house | No Comments »

Here’s another idea is ver­ti­cal gar­den­ing. This time, it’s of the DIY persuasion…

Tuto­r­ial by Martha McQuade of Uni­form Natural

Fresh World Map

Posted: September 13th, 2010 | Filed under: art/design | No Comments »

Love this map. Col­ors of course are a win for me, and the lay­out has a great mod­ern feel, with an antique, old world nod. Designed by thesearethings.com.

understanding the cloud

Posted: August 3rd, 2010 | Filed under: art/design, misc | No Comments »

I’ve been research­ing cloud com­put­ing for a free­lance project, and came across these info graph­ics which both do a great job of explain­ing the devel­op­ment and growth of the cloud.

modern a-frame

Posted: May 12th, 2010 | Filed under: art/design | 2 Comments »

It’s been a lit­tle while since I’ve posted about A-frames. I love the asym­me­try of this mod­ern sleek A-frame cabin. Some­times I think there is some­thing mys­te­ri­ous and a tad spooky about old rus­tic A-frames tucked away in the woods. This one feels airy and light. A grace­ful com­pli­ment to the sur­round­ing white birch trees.

The Allan­dale vaca­tion house was designed by Cam­bridge, Massachusetts-based archi­tect William O’Brien Jr.

Via: Buzz Beast | Allan­dale House | A Cre­ative Out­door Hide­away.