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5 Graphic Design Mistakes To Avoid
In broad daylight When I was younger I used to assume that if a sign was hanging up in a public space it must have passed a rigorous editing and testing phase before being let out the creative studio...
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A Collection of Hand-Painted Signs
The Art Of Sign Painting It’s no secret that David and I love hand-painted signs. We’ve been collecting images of our favorite lettering from our travels over the years. Below are a few of our...
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What’s New In the Studio?
Hand-Painted Signs Over the last month Laura has been working on a series of hand-painted signs. Though still in progress, we wanted to share the bright colors and fun typefaces incorporated into...
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Typography In Nature
Jenn Maine Spring Written In Green Spring is finally coming. The weather is warming and buds are beginning to bloom on the trees outside the studio window. To celebrate our excitement for the coming...
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How To Create Letterpress Type In Illustrator
Today I will show you how to create letterpress type in Illustrator. It’s easy to do and adds a nice pop of awesome to your creative project. Follow along with the simple instructions below. Step one...
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8 Typefaces Every Designer Should Have
Personality Type While recently searching through the popular online portfolio hosting site Behance I came across examples of what some famous corporate logos would look like rendered in a different...
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Inspiring Quotes From Inspiring People
Wise Words from Designers, Artists and Creatives Even the best artists and designers need a pep talk every once in a while to keep motivated, inspired and moving forward. This collection of quotes...
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How To Prevent The NSA From Spying On You
They’re Watching You With the recent news about the National Security Agency’s wide-spread illegal surveillance of American and foreign citizens you may be wondering how to reclaim your privacy. Laura...
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A Tutorial In Hand Lettering
Reviving A Lost Art Back in the 1950′s, practically every sign you saw was hand-lettered, each one painstakingly crafted by a highly trained sign painter. As the years rolled on and technology...
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North Korea Stamp Design
Art In The DPRK! North Korea exists in isolation. It is a mystery that rarely reveals itself to the outside world. Few Westerners have been allowed within its borders since a cease fire agreement was...
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Brimfield Antique Show September 2013
Vintage Delights Two weeks ago David and I made our annual visit to the Brimfield Antique Show, a famous flea market held three times a year in Brimfield, Massachusetts. We again found an assortment...
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Tutorial: Digitizing Hand Lettering
Make Your Hand Lettering Into A Vector Graphic A few weeks back we created a tutorial on hand lettering and had some requests for how to turn that hand lettering into a digital vector graphic. So...
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Philadelphia Punk Rock Flea Market 2014
A Little Bit Of Everything Last Saturday David and I set up shop at the Philadelphia Punk Rock Flea Market. We crowded together in an old warehouse with more than 100 inspiring artists and creatives...
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San Francisco Typography
Sweet Signs During our trip to San Francisco I collected several images of great shop sign, many vintage and hand-painted. The city’s typography is beautiful, eye-catching and sometimes quite funny. I...
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Signs Of Austin
Hand Lettering And Neon As you can probably tell, our trip to Austin provided endless amounts of inspiration. We packed as much as possible into just one week, but there’s so much more we want to...
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Brimfield Flea Market Spring 2014
Springtime Treasures This past weekend David and I headed to Brimfield, MA for the Brimfield Flea Market. As in our previous adventures, this time around we again found some interesting and inspiring...
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New Stuff In The Shop
Prints and Bags David and I have been busy getting ready for the Punk Rock Flea Market in Philadelphia and we’ve created some new items for the show and for our online shop, General Industry. The...
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$7 Mistake Prints Now Available
Perfectly Imperfect Not every print we do is perfect. It’s just the trial-and-error way of the creative process. In our run up to launching our original block print series last month we made several...
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Roadside America
Southern Kitchen Restaurant, Virginia The Road To Austin After five days of driving we arrived last week to our new home in Austin, Texas, safe and sound and we couldn’t be more excited! Along the way...
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Instagram For Hand Lettering Inspiration
Instagram Inspiration There are so many great hand letterers and typographers sharing their work on Instagram these days. For anyone needing inspiration for their next type project, here are five we...
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