Every season Starbucks has some great campaigns and visual designs in their stores and in print. I think they always stay very current with their design in regards to pop culture and this helps keep their brand fresh, which leads to their success. I am particularly loving their new Frappuccino campaign which is the perfect amount of whimsy and summer fun that features scribbley doodles and a scrappy collage feeling. Check out my Pinterest Starbucks Design Board showcasing many other great designs from Starbucks.
As a designer and a visual person I am always drawn to striking patterns – I came across this the other day and it caught my eye. Love the pops of green with the black and white silhouettes. Very simple but eye catching and powerful!
One of the coolest sites I’ve been addicted to lately is Pinterest, which is a fabulous website to catalog the things you love from all around the web. You can follow people and pin things from their boards. It’s a great tool to find inspiration and to help you organize links you want to save for reference. I love to use it to catalog design inspiration of all kinds and lots of other random things too (pictures of Colin Firth – YUM). And now that they have their iPhone app it’s even more easy to use when you are on the go! Feel free to check out my boards and if you have any cool pins to share link me up in the comments! Pinterest is by invite, so if you are interested in starting your own boards let me know and I can send you an invite.
I love this tag line from Hallmark as well as the sentiment. It always makes me smile and I even posted it at work for inspiration.
I’ve been busy lately with the new job and very tired, so I haven’t been blogging much. I plan to schedule some posts over the long weekend. In case I don’t get back here till after the holiday weekend have a great and safe 3 day weekend!
Being a designer I am constantly inspired by prints, patterns and advertising I see. Recently I noticed the new Sweet’n Low ad campaign because of it’s use of bold and bright illustrations. The eye catching illustrations were crafted by illustrator Nate Duval. The pieces are fun, funky and retro. Thought I would share some of the key designs from the campaign to hopefully inspire you.
I would love to hear what is inspiring you these days!
I took an Inchies Galore class last week at my favorite little stamp store. Apparently inchie design is the hottest thing in crafting and stamping lately, so seems I’m trendy. LOL! Anyways, it was a great inspiration which helped kick start my creative mojo for creating things with my hands. And if you are asking yourself what is an inchies…well an inchie is a 1″ square of art. You can decorate it as you wish. Stamping, embellishing and coloring in any way you want to. You can then attach it to a mini 3 x 3 canvas to make your art stand out like the one I finished at my class. Only took me 2 hours to complete a 3 x 3 work of art! LOL. It was fun =)
Had a very lovely weekend. Friday I got out of work early, had a nice lunch with the hubby and then went for a pedicure. My package from Joann’s came which totally surprised me since I never even got a confirmation email from them. Saturday I started to clean my craft closet and stash and it was like shopping in my own store! I found so much stuff I didn’t know I had and I’m super excited about it. Sunday we enjoyed a winning Mets game against the Yankees. LET’S GO METS!
Looking forward to the long weekend and trying to get through the week. Hope all is well and enjoy the week.
Today I took a Back to Basic Stamping class that was given by a local rubber stamping store. I’ve always collected rubber stamps because they were cool but never really knew what to do with them. All the different inks and papers always overwhlemed me and I didn’t know what to use with what. So this class sounded perfect to go over the basic of rubber stamping. Well the class was great and now I want to stamp! We learned about dyes, inks, paper and the coolest technique – heat embossing. I came home tonight and bought online with a coupon a heating tool. LOL! I’m even thinking of taking another class this Thursday night to really apply what I learned because I know if I don’t do something with the knowledge I have I’ll forget it. Least this will put all the cool stamps I’ve been collecting over the years to good use and out of the boxes I’ve hid them in.
I’m going to try to do some more hands on crafts instead of all digital stuff. I was going through boxes this weekend and found lots of artwork I did in college and high school. So much of it was mixed media and really cool. I’m going to try to have some fun creating things and not stress over it. Well TRY is the key word.
Anyways, I’m off to bed now to get ready for Monday and the new week.
I’m going to be out of town this weekend but if you are in the NYC area there is the Renegade Craft Festival in Brooklyn. Seems like it will be fun and lots of vendors.
Cute banner ad too =)
Anyways, could it get any HOTTER on the East Coast? I think I’m seriously going to melt soon!
So after posting the other day about my wedding workshop being a disappointment I got an email from The Knot. Seems I wasn’t the only one disappointed with the workshop so as a result The Knot is offering a one year subscription to their magazine as well as a full refund. I was pleasantly surprised by this and quite happy.
We went to a family wedding yesterday and had a really good time. I took tons of cool pictures and ate lots of amazing food (too much probably). The reception had a mini tea garden and an asian flair to it which was pretty neat. We have been wanting to go to this big tea garden/park for awhile but haven’t made it there so this was a nice small substitute. I’ll post some photos this weekend hopefully.
Anyways, why is it when I have several days off “to do” nothing and finally have the time I don’t want to do ANYTHING! I’m not a person who can ever really relax. Even when I’m “relaxing” I’m thinking of all the things I should be doing or take care of. I have productivity issue but according this this list it’s neccassary to be artistic. So who I am to disagree? LOL! Anyways, here it is Memorial Day Weekend and I have several days off and have no motivation. Hopefully tomorrow I can kick start my creativity and get some things done. We’ll see…
