What We Write About +

What We Write About.


What we have on our wish list.


have on our wish list.

2012 Designer’s Wish List — Ten creative and "well-branded" items I want this year.

Each year, I have my eye on a few items I am really inter­ested in acquir­ing, whether they are tech-y or just plain cool. Call it brand mon­i­tor­ing, if you will. Last year, my list was more tech-inspired with the iPad and Apple TV at the top. This year, my list ranges from weekly cod­ing lessons to the highly unat­tain­able iPhone-controlled Cof­fee Faucet. Regard­less, most of the items I find inter­est­ing typ­i­cally revolve around well-branded prod­ucts or services.

My list is sorted by most attain­able (start­ing with one) to most unat­tain­able (end­ing with ten). It is also sort of in the order I plan on pur­chas­ing these items. Enjoy this year’s eclec­tic list and maybe some of these things will end up at the top of your list, as well.

Read More +

have on our wish list.

A Book of Inspiration — 'I Wonder' by Marian Bantjes is now available to purchase.

I Wonder

One of the great things about study­ing graphic design at Bowl­ing Green was the won­der­ful guest lec­tur­ers our pro­fes­sors brought in for “ARTalks.” When I was a junior, they invited Vancouver-based graphic artist Mar­ian Ban­t­jes to cam­pus. I did not know much about her then, but as she started shar­ing her work with us, I was imme­di­ately drawn to her elab­o­rate and orna­men­tal designs and cus­tom type. Not only was it dif­fer­ent from my style, but it was dif­fer­ent than any­thing I’d ever seen before. Since then, I’ve fol­lowed her work and recent projects, and she has only grown in pop­u­lar­ity. She has done beau­ti­ful work for Saks Fifth Avenue, Wired Mag­a­zine and Maharam wall­pa­pers, as well projects for some big names in design, like Pen­ta­gram, Ste­fan Sag­meis­ter and Deb­bie Mill­man. Most recently, she released a new book called I Won­der, and it’s been on my wish list since I first heard about it.

Read More +