While I am a huge fan of clean, modern typography; I am also drawn to the free-flowing style of Nate Williams. His type and illustrations scream fun, chaos and disorder (with some MCM undertones).
Read more about Nate on his blog, here.
I often catch myself daydreaming about our next weekend getaway. I love to see new places and lucky for me, Washington State is full of gorgeous corners.
My brother told us about a place a couple hours outside of Seattle called Rolling Huts where you can stay in these MCM cabins in the middle of the woods. I love them and can’t wait to head out there!
They even have WIFI! Now that is my kind of roughing it.
Two of my favorite blogs- The Inspired Bride and Paper Crave have teamed up to create a new stylish online wedding magazine called Nonpareil. The first issue includes some invitation templates, DIY accessory projects and recipes. The magazine features some unique ideas and the photography is to die for!
(photo from Nonpareil mag online)
(Necklace on etsy by Alas del sur, Handbay on etsy
by Ilemi Paris)
I love these military-inspired laptop bags from Ally Capellino. I actually love all of Ally’s bags period but it helps when I can carry my laptop with me in a stylish bag.
These bags are from Ally Capellino’s AO line and come in a few earth tones.
We’ve survived another DIY project! I will look at this fence and smile for a long time because it is the first big project Jeremy & I have done together that required physical labor AND power tools. We built the fence on both sides of the house and now we have to make a couple of gates and the yard is ready for Petunia.
It has always been a dream of mine to have a big yard for my dog to run and play. I am so glad I can give that to Petunia because she has more than enough room to run, get muddy and be a dog.
I’ve been working on business cards this week for various clients and I came across this business card and LOVED IT! What a great design.
Click for more information on the design from Studio Kudos. (What an appropriate name! They deserve mad kudos for this one!)
A nice idea by FreshBump.
Enjoy the weekend and make something!
Jen
This amazing illustration by Amy Ruppell now comes in poster form and the proceeds to go the American Forest organization.
We had very little time to create our wedding invitations and I think the lack of time actually worked in our favor. Sometimes when you don’t have much time, you can’t agonize, you just have to go with your gut.
One of the many things I have in common with my husband is our love of posters and the crown-jewels of our collection are from Hatch Show Print. We wanted to incorporate the look of the old fashioned Hatch show posters into all of the pieces of our invitation. For the save-the-date, we created an old time postcard using wood type fonts and printed it digitally in our own studio on French Paper in Kraft. For the wedding invitation set, we wanted use the same feel with dark papers and incandescent inks. I loved the Tangy Orange and Hot Fudge colors by French Paper, so we used those shades. The invitation and response card were printed by Casey McGarr from Inky Lips Letterpress in Dallas, a friend of Jeremy. For the directions, Jeremy did a great map illustration and I wrote some fun copy on ‘things to do while in Seattle’ for our 40+ guests who were coming in from out of town. We folded all the direction sheets like maps which I thought was a great touch! We fastened together all the pieces with some brown twine. The envelopes were addressed with a wrap-around label.
To see more invitation photos, see Jeremy’s Flickr set.
