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Top 10 gift guide for the design guy REUP

So it’s been suggested that I provide a 2011 edition to the not so subtle wish list de moi. Wish Granted!

Dec 9th

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Sep 8th

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Jul 26th

officialbeastieboys: Make Some Noise This...

Apr 16th

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Mar 25th

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Mar 24th

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Watch

@abigailwashburn and/or @masonjarmusic if you like!

Mar 24th

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Mar 16th

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Dec 29th

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1. Lomo Camera

Finishing up a bit late, which if you know me is par for the course, but better late than never (hey maybe you celebrate Christmas late or actually celebrate 12 days of Christmas) I bring to you the final installment of the designers’ other Christmas recommendation list (what he/she really wants). So chances are your designer significant other already has the best of the best, top of the...

Dec 29th

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Dec 24th

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Dec 24th

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2. Chewbacca T-Shirt Adidas Boots BEST JACKET...

So admittedly these are not necessarily in ascending or descending order, so i apologize in advance for any anticipation letdown as this really isn’t a designers most wanted thing, but I recently spied a choice Star Wars Chewbacca T-Shirt at the local TarGet, thought, dang, what self respecting designer wouldn’t show up to a fancy shindig with a nice sport coat with this one of a kind...

Dec 24th

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Dec 20th

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3. Garrison Keillor related things

Alright…so this one is probably also more personal than most, BUT it’s my assertion that all designers love to write, short of being able to have the dedication and organization to be a writer. Old school communication arts is what I call it! So, for me, being a northern midwest guy, the quintessential creative writer to aspire to be is the incomparable Mr. Keillor. I have great...

Dec 20th

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Dec 19th

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4. Typekit Subscription

As I draw close to the end of the Designer’s (real) Christmas Wish List I honestly am ashamed i have yet to talk about a designer’s best friend. Yes, significant others, you should start to get that jealous twinge when I mention this best friend of theirs! It’s something that a designer can’t live without, something that he or she dreams incessantly about, sketches about,...

Dec 19th

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Dec 19th

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5. CAaD Alma Mater Rep Shwag

This one is probably closer to my heart than others as my Alma Mater, VCU, is top 5 in the country in the area of expertise. It also helps if said Alma mater has a fairly decent basketball (or other athletics) program worth attending, post graduate, to rep for! Seasonal (yellow wooly at local RiteAid), Fun random kitch (link of plush thing), Basketball Tickets

Dec 19th

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Dec 14th

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6. Minimalistic Star Wars Lithos

Speaking of nostalgia, current day designer inspirational origins and a bit of, man I wish I did that, minimal envy! These amazing original pieces of art will immediately find a prominent wall space in his or her process space or if your not careful, the family room! And be warned! These will take your ‘creative other’ to a galaxy far far away…let’s just hope they come back...

Dec 14th

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Dec 12th

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7. Longboard

Secret or not, your designer ‘other’ has wanted to be, and maybe even tried to be, a skateboarder at one time or another. In fact their road to designerdom probably was influenced to some degree by the skateboard culture. Back then it was probably more to do with art applied to the underbelly of worn wooden planks and equally worn punk t-shirts, and, unofficially, pigment expressed on...

Dec 12th

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8. Kaweco Mechanical Pencil

So, chances are you are very aware how much your ‘designer’ ‘other’ loves his or her obsession with their sketchbooks and sketch processes! Sufficed to say, there is probably no shortage of stacks and stacks of sketch books lying around (see moleskin). So rather than adding to that insanity, it would show a little more creativity and thoughtfulness by finding a one of a...

Dec 10th

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Dec 10th

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Dec 7th

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9. iTunes Gift Cards

Number nine is another softball tossed up to you eagerly anticipating shopping Eaves’ fans elves. Let’s face it, gone are the endless collegiate days and sleepless nights of amassing copious amounts of ‘shared’ audiophilia -er knowledge! So now that your designers’ portfolio is seasoned with paid stock photography and officially licensed typography and all legitimate it’s time to assist in getting...

Dec 7th

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Dec 3rd

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10. Starbucks

Whether it’s the, cover your bases, gift card, or a pack of the game changing VIA, chances are filling his stocking with anything from this foundational fuel for his life you cannot go wrong!

Dec 3rd

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Top 10 gift guide for the design guy

So with the turkey carcass hopefully out of the bottom shelf of the fridge and the Black Friday Storm having past (hopefully with limbs intact), we are getting exceedingly close to that day we lived for as kids. If you are a designer’s wife or girlfriend, you probably already know you still have that expectant child to buy for, in man form, and you also probably didn’t find that...

Dec 3rd

“Technology is a big destroyer of emotion and truth… It doesn’t do anything for...”

– Jack White in “Its going to get loud”

Oct 4th

IBM ‘Outcomes’ Campaign →

cameronmoll: These print pieces are just brilliant. Objects and negative space combine to produce FedEx arrow-like visuals. Designed by Noma Bar (Dutch Uncle) to promote IBM’s “Smarter Planet” initiative. For related viewing, see Graphic Design Blog’s list of logos with hidden messages. Somebody who knows something about visual communication snuck into IBM’s headquarters!

Oct 3rd

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HardGraft →

If you have the hipness and moolah to drop on mac products then these fine products shouldn’t be far behind!

Jun 7th

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Jun 7th

“We never sit down and think of ideas - we’re lucky enough that they find...”

– via // Purveyors of fine lifestyle accessories (Hard Graft)

Jun 7th

My Best Friend - in memorandum

My best friend died today…in a rocky cave Him they will lay but the important interesting improbable thing is he will not stay! For in 3 days he will raise, rise ressurected not just revived, alive, survived the slings and arrows and whips and chains of man beaten and torn dried up twisted many a sharp thorn was worn, by Him. Wierd thing is all those things he endured was because of MY mess...

Apr 2nd

Humble Pied →

Small pieces of creative advice nuggets from the best in the biz!

Jan 23rd

Oct 29th

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Blogging taken to a whole new level →

This guy is taking what @jasonsantamaria is doing to a whole new level…designs could be tightened up just a touch!

Oct 29th

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Album of the Year - The Gabe Dixon Band

This is to be the first, of hopefully many, inspirado posts on one of my passions, music. It just so happens that this series of post happens to be for what in my humble view and realm of taste, album of the year, unexpectedly to say the least. Now I know, you say - album of the year? but I have never even heard of The Gabe Dixon Band…how can that be? Plus my Viva La Vida CD has a hold...

Nov 11th

“The countryside between us, Is fortunate indeed, To feel the love from me to...”

– Gabe Dixon - Five More Hours

Nov 11th

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Gabe Dixon Band - Find My Way, gets you grooving...

Nov 11th

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Fallin'

With a warm beverage in my hand, the prospect of a nip in the air, the 0 trans fat Mrs. Freshley’s Carrot Cake tickling my tastebuds, and an empty inbox I decided to freshen my workspace with a tribute of what is to come, the Fall Season and all that entails. Now a freshen up/change always is accompanied by inspirado by nature, but, more importantly when it comes to inspiration, nostalgia is...

Oct 21st

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Oct 21st

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Pretty up your mac →

Let me know if you need any help with applying this goodness!

Oct 21st

Colophon

For posteriors sake… This wonder tumblr has been conceived, designed, revived and made alive to you by the fine purveyors of the quaint design firm entitled matli!design, llc. More specifically, the lead park ranger, Mattigan (Matt McGhan) has been charged with conduiting inspirado from wence he derives his drive in this wonderful world. Quite plainly I, Matt McGhan, love the life that God...

Jul 17th

“Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every...”

– Thornton Wilder

Jul 17th

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