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Penguin Classics inspiration

admin — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:48:24 +0000

I’m a lifelong pattern lover and wrapping-paper collector, and I’ve been amassing snapshots of tile patterns over the years; lately I realized I’ve also been getting inspired by the images and patterns from Penguin Classics and Penguin Scores that I keep seeing all over the internet. Today I’m brainstorming some ideas for new card designs and I started collecting jpegs of Penguin cover patterns from around the internet… in the interest of documenting my inspiration I thought I’d collect some favorites here. If I manage to turn this into a great card design or pattern idea, of course I will post that here too!

Penguin Scores Brandenburg Concertos from For the Love of…

Penguin Scores Brandenburg Concertos from Zoo in the Head

Penguin Scores Coriolan and Egmont design by Jan Tschichold from St. Bride Foundation

Penguin Scores design from Ace Jet 170

The King Penguin Series from underdesign

Penguin spines from bandelle.com

Penguin spines from ffffound.com

Penguin Scores pattern from An Aesthete’s Lament

pattern from Prjct.com

pattern from flickr

Penguin spines designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith, image from bandelle.com

Penguin spines designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith, image from design*sponge

Penguin Classics designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith, image from design*sponge

craft fair saturday

admin — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:35:00 +0000

had a table at a really cute craft fair in Colegiales on Sunday.
it was sponsored by this shop: www.ca-nas-ta.org
it was tons of fun, gorgeous weather, met lots of nice new people, sold lots of cards!

i’m working on…

admin — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:30:00 +0000

new card designs! updating my website! organizing my hard drive!
i don’t have any freelance projects right now :/ which is something that i kinda always want – because i love having creative time to myself!! – but also scary because i need the paychecks, ya know. and i don’t know when i’ll have work again. freelance life is such a constant roller-coaster. anyway, this down-time is filling my mind with lots of fun project ideas. but for now, i’m trying to focus on Morris & Essex. I’ve made some sweet new card designs (see above!) and i am now updating my website with the new designs, and thinking about how I can sell more cards! publicity is the hardest part, but it’s also probably the most important. of course, i’ll post all the new stuff when it’s ready to share.