Now that the first round of finalist voting for the Design Your Own Alphabet contest has finished, it’s time to start with group two! You’ll have one day to choose your favorite from this talented group of 10 artists and then tomorrow we’ll vote on the last group of winners. Details on the voting process…
Today I am THRILLED to post the first 10 of our top 30 finalists for the Design Your Own Alphabet contest! I can’t even begin to describe how blown away I was by everyone’s entries. You guys went above and beyond to create amazing alphabets and I am so excited to share the finalists here…
Images above, clockwise from top left: Striped cocktail napkins, $4.95 for 20; Wire baskets, $98–$125; Float martini glasses, $100 for 2; Iomoi lucite tray, $100; Hendricks Gin, $29.99 Over the last few months I’ve been cursing my cell phone to anyone who will listen. It keeps dropping calls, taking what feels like three hours to…
Well, after two days and over 400 emails, I’ve finally narrowed down our Design Your Own Alphabet Contest winners . . . to 30. There was NO way for me to get it lower than that because you guys seriously went above and beyond to design amazing alphabets! So rather than one day of voting,…
I’m thrilled to wrap up our font-themed day with a fantastic contest! I’ve been interested in font design for years, but after speaking with experts over the past few weeks, I realized that designing a fully functioning font would be too complicated for most of us. So I thought we’d break things down to the…
my love for the deep south is hard to put into words. having grown up on what felt like the outer fringes of the south, i’ve always felt a desire to spend more time in the heart of the low country, soaking up all of that amazing culture, food, and hospitality. so when i heard…
hi guys! i hope this post finds you all back safe and sound from the holiday weekend. three days away from the laptop definitely did me some good and it was great to indulge in my once-a-year flag cake obsession. to kick off this morning i wanted to share some beautiful letterpress stationery from a…
last year i posted about miriam rosenbloom’s beautiful book cover designs for faber’s classic poetry selection, so i was thrilled to hear from her about a new collection of artist-designed book covers. miriam worked with six british printmakers to create covers that were more colorful and specially commissioned endpapers. the talented group includes: jonathan gibbs,…
i had such a blast looking through the entries you guys sent in for the design on a dime contest- so many of you have gotten seriously creative with thrift store goods in your home! thank you to everyone who took the time to enter, and thank you again to housing works for donating 5…
this thursday marks the beginning of housing works‘ sixth annual design on a dime event. every year housing works puts together a beautiful event where all sorts of amazing designers (including my favorite- the housing works in-house design team) create vignettes that are auctioned off piece by piece to provide lifesaving services to homeless and…
i’ve been officially blown away and speechless after reading through the nearly 600 comments left under ashley’s new book + contest post from wednesday. i’ve always looked up to and admired ashley’s homesteading and green living efforts and was so thrilled to hear that SO many of you are composting, keeping chickens, living off of…
today i am overjoyed to congratulate writer, urban home-steader, and d*s editor ashley english on the release of not one- but TWO books! yesterday the first two installments of ashley’s homemade living series hit the shelves: canning & preserving and keeping chickens. ashley has been working so hard on these books and to say that…
to say that this contest was a battle to the end well, just wouldn’t be accurate. from the second our ugliest pillow finalists went live there was a clear winner from start to finish. almost 5,000 of you voted and today we have our winners. so congrats to the following entrants who will receive new…
alright! after wading through so many ugly pillows i was starting to lose my faith in pillow designers, i’ve narrowed down our ugliest pillow contestants to a top 10. and now it’s your turn to vote! who has the ugliest pillow of them all and deserves new thomas paul pillows from pillows and throws to…
just a quick reminder: today (at 10pm EST) is the last day to turn in your entries for the lena corwin “printing by hand” contest at d*s. if you have a cool space in your home that uses print and pattern well, send us a photo (via email right here- title: lena corwin contest) and…
to say that i am thrilled and honored to be posting a sneak peek into lena corwin‘s long-awaited first book: printing by hand (STC Craft/August 2008/27.50) would be a massive understatement. i’ve been a huge fan of lena’s since the moment i first saw her work and could not be happier to see that her…
