Image above: Crafting at the Cleaners in Portland on September 25. A big thank you to Alexandra Hedin driving all the way from Seattle with a 7-week-old baby to provide us all with delicious snacks ! Grace and I have been traveling across the country for the past few weeks and wanted to share a…
I’m always really curious about why people choose the names they do — names for their children, their businesses and especially publications (I wish I’d thought my own through a little bit more. It’s weird to say “sponge” twenty times a day). So much is riding on that one singular choice, and it’s always interesting…
I’m always so thrilled to see students and designers go on to produce and sell collections they’ve shown or prototyped on Design*Sponge. Last week, I heard from Jason Jones who was our first-place winner in the D*S Font Contest last November. His design, Skunkling, was once an entry in the contest but is now a…
Tonight is the official launch party for Design*Sponge at Home (I hope you can join us- details are here) but I’m thrilled to announce we’ll also be having another local event with our fellow bloggers at Apartment Therapy. The team at AT invited me to be the their guest for their monthly Design Evenings taking…
I rarely take a moment to look back on the work we’ve done here at Design*Sponge. I’ve always been more of a “full steam ahead!” type of person. But this has been a summer worth spending a quick second looking back on. We hired our first full time team member, launched a major redesign, published…
Photo by Allison Nadeau This has been a week full of exciting announcements and events, but for me, nothing is more exciting than finally getting to announce our spur-of-the-moment summer project: The Design*Sponge Newspaper! Earlier this summer when Kate was visiting from San Francisco, we were all blown away by the gorgeous newspaper-style press releases…
Even though I appreciate that it’s far more efficient for us to fly everywhere for the D*S Book Tour (full dates and details coming next week), part of me wishes we could drive in a tour bus. Or, even better, an airstream trailer. I know Amy and I would probably want to punch each other…
Print by NDT photo Today, I’m packing up early and hopping on a flight out to Portland, Oregon, for an extended getaway. When I started looking at my book tour schedule for the fall, I felt a mild panic mode start to set in, so I decided to give myself a little time away from…
I don’t normally repost something that’s been around the web already, but this video is too cool to miss. Bryan Ku is a graphic design student in California who recreated the 2008 Wimbledon final between Nadal and Federer in paper form. The video flips back and forth between two hands holding notebook pages that show…
This morning Amy and I are hugging our favorite DIY girl goodbye (We’ll miss you, Kate!) and hopping on a plane up to Portland to finish our summer project and take some classes at the Ace. This week has been a blur of inspiration and new ideas, so I wanted to share a few quick…
The delicious cake and cake stand above are from Herriott Grace Design*Sponge turns seven years old this summer, but today, I’m officially 30. I was only 23 when I started this site, and in some ways, I can believe it’s been that long, and in others, it still feels like yesterday. I’m so lucky and…
SF Print by Marisa Seguin at Etsy Next week Amy and I are hopping on a plane and flying to San Francisco and Portland to work on a very last-minute passion project. We’re meeting up with our senior DIY editor, craft guru and Brimfield shopping buddy, Kate Pruitt to turn what started as a crazy…
Please excuse this quick morning interruption but we’re gathering homes for a limited-edition summer project here at D*S and I thought it would be fun to do a call out so we could include more readers’ homes! Amy, Kate and I were inspired by something we saw during design week at NYC and decided to…
After all of yesterday’s design magazine talk, it’s nice to keep the discussion going with another promising publication, Anthology. Anthology just released its third issue, which includes one of the most gorgeous event-styling ideas (courtesy of the talented Jordan Ferney) I’ve seen in a while. The rainbow-colored streamer scenes (above and below) are so beautiful,…
We’ve had a crazy few days here at D*S getting the redesign up and running (and de-bugging like crazy), so I couldn’t think of a better and happier way to kick off DIY day than by introducing our newest team member: our resident upholstery expert, Amanda Brown of Spruce Austin! I’ve been a massive, massive…
Good morning evening everyone and welcome to the new Design*Sponge! A year ago this month we started working on the redesign of the site with the design team at ALSO. Working with them has been one of the most inspiring and special parts of my job and I trust and admire them immensely. After several…
Yesterday was unseasonably warm and gorgeous in Brooklyn. The temperature topped 75 degrees, and there wasn’t a gray cloud in the sky. We spent a good chunk of our Sunday at the Brooklyn Flea, scarfing down pork-ragu pasta and bubble tea (I know that’s an odd combo, but both were delicious) while watching the boats…
This coming weekend there is a fantastic event taking place at Terrain — aka, my dream garden home. From 11am to 4pm on Saturday, Terrain will be celebrating all things Brooklyn with a huge range of events/demonstrations. There will be stenciling classes from Claudia Pearson; food events with Renato and Matt from Baked; Early Bird Granola; the authors…
Yesterday Amy and I started a new tradition of taking small inspiration-based trips around the city. I’m a firm believer that the best ideas come from looking, listening and allowing yourself to really absorb all the inspiring things around you. So we hopped on our bikes, rode around Williamsburg and got coffee while talking about…
Please pardon this mini-interruption with a little behind-the-scenes business, but I wanted to do a quick announcement that I’m looking for a Video Intern! You might have noticed that we’ve been trying to do a few more videos, and after pulling a few too many all-nighters trying to finish up recent videos, I’ve realized that I…
