Filed under: Craft Biz, Design, Feedsacks, Handmade Revolution | Tags: Design Sponge, Design*Sponge, fabric, Formspring, Grace Bonney, Kokka, Spoonflower, Textiles, True Up
I was surprised a couple of weeks ago to read on Formspring that Grace Bonney {design*sponge} is wondering where all the great new fabric designs are, comparing textiles to the recent boom of wallpaper. I guess she would be in the know as far as the design world goes, so maybe the fabric I have been discovering a lot of lately are actually old, but new to me? Anywhoo, I thought I would render a shortlist here of some textile designers I am a fan of:
- Repeat Studio
- Daisy Janie
- Cicada Studio & Cloud9 Fabrics
- Heather Moore/Skinny Laminx
- Etsuko Furuya
- Anna Maria Horner
- Kokka
- Jessica Levitt
And some great online shops to find get such fabric:
- The Fabric Bar
- Sew Mama Sew
- Fabricworm
- Pink Chalk
- Fabric Shoppe
- Purl Soho
- and of course Etsy
I personally love reading True Up – Kim can keep us all informed of all things fabric. There are also several services, including Spoonflower that will allow you to upload your own designs for print on fabric, which is quite exciting. There are many designs from experienced Spoonflowers for sale as well, I am amassing a list of favorites over there as well. At any rate, I think there are a lot of really great textiles out there to be had and wanted to share my sources. At the end of the day, my all time favorite fabric will always be vintage feedsacks!
Filed under: Design, Inspirations, Letterpress | Tags: Bethany Heck, End Grain, typography, wood type, woodtype
I love typography and woodtype, Bethany Heck and her End Grain blog, fulfills a void for me where I want to run out and spend my entire life savings on all the gorgeous wood type I can find, but realistically shouldn’t. It is a wonderful exploration of letterforms and letterpress. End Grain found a niche and I love to fall right in it everyday.
ps. I am thinking of changing up what I blog on Thursdays, obviously I love typography and letters, but I am also currently over inspired by the others out there doing handmade. Etsy has stolen my heart again lately and I am finding a lot of things that I would love to chat about … we’ll see where it goes … it may turn into oTHURsday around here for a while.
Filed under: BirdDog Press, Bozeman Collaborative, Craft Biz, Design, Feedsacks, Handmade Revolution, Letterpress | Tags: Depression, Julia Vandenoever Photography, media kit, press kit, Recession
After two photoshoots at the end of last summer, a pow wow or three with my wonderfully smart entrepreneurial woman-friends, a test-market run to my marvelously smart media professional friends, and countless hours the think tank, at the sewing machine, glued to the computer, among piles of crafty ephemera, on the press, … I am finally ready to send out my first batch of press/media kits – Recession got you down? Let the Depression cheer you up! These feedsack inspired bags of goodness are far from gloomy even though the vintage fabric comes from that era. They are pattern filled, colorful, overflowing with flattering photography {by Julia Vandenoever} and best of all they tell a story, the tale of my greatest inspiration and what makes the BirdDog Press tick.
Filed under: BirdDog Press, Design, Friends, Letterpress | Tags: Baby Announcement, Julie Afflerbaugh
I really needed that two-week hiatus from the blog, and now I’m back in full-swing folks! So much In Progress to share. My photographer friend Julie who is doing the photo session this weekend that I mentioned yesterday, just had a little one herself. Here is his announcement as it was in production and here is his finished hello to the world!
I despise being ignorant of foreign language. I wish I could read Korean, … whatever it would take to buy these awesome ABC paper cups. Aren’t they delightful?
Filed under: BirdDog Press, Design, Inspirations | Tags: alphabet, letters, montessori, reading, typography
C is really taking notice of letters these days. Letters, sounds, words, reading, uppercase, lowercase, reading, writing – it is a LOT to take in now that I’m immersed in it. I am noticing with C that he really recognizes letters by their pure shape. He will mistake a U for a C – and really if you look at it sideways … it is! or W for M, L for 7, A for V, u for n, 2 for Z … I am fascinated by the way children learn, especially my own. Do all children see letters this way? How do you keep this ability to see things in their purest form and still function in society to read & write? Some days I would love to see the letters for what they really are. To not have too much meaning, sound, label or correct/incorrect attached to them, ahhhh, but then a lot of that is the beauty – typography, books, language …
Apartment Therapy’s Ohdeedoh blog recently posted this Montessori alphabet and received some really interesting comments on the subject of teaching the alphabet to children.
Filed under: BirdDog Press, Design, Inspirations | Tags: color trends, colorscheme, Pantone, puma, purple
What inspires your color choices? Hues that amuse you? I wouldn’t ordinarily call myself a “purple person” but I do own these shoes and was drawn to this color-scheme for printing this week.
Filed under: Design, Inspirations, Life | Tags: Concert for Cash, Denver, Railbenders, SMA, Spinal Muscular Atrophy, The Children's Hospital, vintage postcards
I have a thing for vintage postcards. Finally getting to use this inspiration in a little project happening now. Lucky to work with great brides with great style and great ideas!
ps. Greetings from Colorado! If you are in the Denver/Boulder area, don’t forget Concert for Cash THIS Saturday!! Featuring the Railbenders, Benefiting The Children’s Hospital all in honor of celebrating a little boy who died of SMA {the #1 genetic killer of infants}
Filed under: BirdDog Press, Design, Inspirations | Tags: Carol Ann Wachter, fashion, Millinery
Who could resist a little collaboration and a letterpress project involving hats like these? Introducing Carol Ann Wachter, marvelous millinery {and much more}, the nautilus cashmere sweater number adorning my head may have to be surgically removed. LOVE.
