Helpful Things
A handy page full of people, places, and things that I love.
- 99u
- AIGA Eye on Design
- Art of the Menu
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Bella Figura
Send all brides-to-be here. Beautiful letterpress invitation designs by yours truly and dozens of other designers
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Boxcar Press
Where everyone on the east coast buys letterpress plates
- Brand New
Showcasing beautiful logo work, an Under Consideration site
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Briar Press
Great site for keeping up with Letterpress news and to peruse / post classifieds for buying and selling type and presses
- Design Matters
Insightful conversations with designers and creatives of all types by Debbie Millman
- Design Milk
- Design Observer
- Design Sponge
- The Dieline
Packaging design inspiration
- FastCo Design
- FPO
A showcase of beautiful printed work
- The Great Discontent
Insanely well done and well curated interviews
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Inker Linker
A resource I created to help find printers—you can sort based on method, price, location, popularity, and more
- It’s Nice That
- Like Knows Like
Short documentaries of creatives pursuing passion projects
- Lovely Package
- Paperless Post
Beautiful greeting cards (including many by me!) for sending online or the old fashioned way
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Swiss Miss
Tina Roth Eisenberg’s smile-making blog of design and gift-giving inspiration
- TED Talks: Design
- This is Colossal
- Quipsologies
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Women Who Draw
An amazing site for finding female-identifying illustrators
General
Type-centric
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Alphabettes
The power ladies of typography share projects, thoughts, etc.
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Art of the Title
A behind the scenes look at contemporary movie title design
- Chromeography
- FontFeed
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Fonts in Use
Real fonts spotted in the wild plus articles and commentary by some very nerdy folks
- Glyphs App
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IAMPETH
The International Association of Master Penmen, Engrossers, and Teachers of Handwriting
- I Love Typography
- ILT Book Recommendations
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Letterform Archive
An amazing library of type/lettering/calligraphy related books, posters, and ephemera in San Francisco
- The Lubalin Center
- Ministry of Type
- The Movie Title Stills Collection
- MyFonts’s Newsletters
- Nice Web Type
- RoboFont
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Type@Cooper
Continuing education workshops and full courses in type design, lettering, and calligraphy. Locations in San Francisco and New York
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Type Cooker
Sets parameters to work with so you have a good starting point to practice drawing type
- TDC Book Recommendations
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Type Directors Club
Promoting excellence in typography for over 65 years. The TDC offers excellent type related events, educational workshops, and a beautiful annual
- Typedia
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TypeKit Practice
Lessons on best typography practices for the web by the team at TypeKit
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Typographica
Stephen Coles’ outstanding blog of type reviews, books and commentary
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Web Typography
Bringhurst’s Elements of Typographic Style applied to the web
Web-centric
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A List Apart
A wonderful site covering all things relating to the web with well-written articles by the field’s top practitioners
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Awwwards
Pure web candy
- Codecademy
- Code Pen
A playground for the front end web—find example design patterns and inspiration for projects
- CSS Tricks
Chris Coyier’s excellent and extremely helpful site with articles, code snippets, and other goodies.
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Don’t Fear the Internet
A site I created with Russ Maschmeyer to teach basic HTML and CSS to Non-Web Designers.
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Kirby CMS
I use Kirby as the content management system for my website. It’s amazing.
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Method and Craft
Web-centric interviews and articles “exploring the creative mind and beauty within each pixel”
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Microformats
A resource for semantic HTML in general and microformats
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Mozilla Developers Network
An open community of developers building resources for a better web, regardless of brand, browser or platform. Top online documentation for HTML, CSS, JS, DOM
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Site Inspire
A showcase of beautiful web and interactive design
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Site Point
SitePoint is a hub for web developers to share their passion for building incredible Internet things
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Smashing Magazine
An extensive resource on web design and development
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Treehouse
An online resource of tutorials for learning to code, build apps, websites, and more
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WordPress Codex
A massive site full of articles and forums as well as extensive documentation of all Wordpress features that is relatively easy to read and learn from
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Zeldman
Web Design news and information since 1995
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Website Setup
A guide for beginners of how to set up a website (not code, just set up) including buying domains, setting up hosting, etc. It's definitely not comprehensive in terms of showing you all of the CMS options out there, but does a good job (if you're a total n00b) getting you started.
Compatriots
Friends and colleagues or just folks I admire.
Highlight POC, Black, Womxn
Design
- Kelli Anderson
- Lindsay Ballant
- Ben Barry
- Jessica Bellamy
- Kim Bost
- Tad Carpenter
- Frank Chimero
- Lizania Cruz
- Data Lands
- Keetra Dean Dixon
- Arem Duplessis
- Eight Hour Day
- Nick Felton
- Firebrand
- Fuzzco
- Geist
- Rob Giampietro
- Tim Goodman
- Jonathan Gray
- Holly Gressley
- Tina Hardison
- The Heads of State
- Ash Huang
- Michael Jeter
- Everett Katigbak
- Justin Thomas Kay
- Louise Fili Ltd.
- Math x Joy
- Oddfellows
- Olly Moss
- Mucca Design
- Moniker
- Open
- Richard Perez
- Jessica Pettaway
- Mig Reyes
- Paul Sahre
- Joe Shouldice
- Elizabeth Carey Smith
- James Victore
- Workshop
- Young Jerks
Type
- Jos Buivenga
- Nadine Chahine
- Commercial Type
- Darden Studio
- Michael Dorett
- Dunwich Type
- Font Bureau
- FontHaus
- FontShop
- Future Fonts
- Tobias Frere-Jones
- Hoefler & Co.
- House Industries
- Jung-Lee
- Just Another Foundry
- Henrik Kubel
- League of Moveable Type
- Laura Meseguer
- Jeremy Mickel
- OhNo Type Co.
- Okay Type
- Jim Parkinson
- Alejandro Paul
- Process Type Foundry
- Jesse Ragan
- Victoria Rushton
- Mark Simonson
- Kris Sowersby
- Erik Spiekermann
- Nina Stössinger
- Type Jockeys
- Type Together
- Type Trust
- Undercase Type
- Underware
- Village
- Hannes von Döhren
- Mark van Bronkorst
- Webtype
- Laura Worthington
Lettering
- Marian Bantjes
- Ken Barber
- Darren Booth
- Kevin Cantrell
- Alison Carmichael
- Becca Clason
- John Contino
- Cyla Costa
- Tony DiSpigna
- Danielle Evans
- Martina Flor
- Sean Freeman
- Friends of Type
- Carmi Grau
- Ryan Hamrick
- Heather Hardison
- Adé Hogue
- Lauren Hom
- Mario Hugo
- Linzie Hunter
- Like Minded Studio
- Ciara LeRoy
- Seb Lester
- Luke Lucas
- Erik Marinovich
- Maricor/Maricar
- Mary Kate McDevitt
- Michael Andrew
- Jen Mussari
- Gemma O’Brien
- Juan Carlos Pagan
- John Passafiume
- Daniel Pelavin
- Mike Perry
- Post Typography
- Priska
- Jeff Rogers
- Carolyn Sewell
- Will Staehle
- Dana Tanamachi
- Matthew Tapia
- Kelly Thorn
- Alex Trochut
- Craig Ward
Illustration
- Kate Bingaman-Burt
- Will Bryant
- Chris Buzelli
- Leandro Castalao
- Josh Cochran
- Lisa Congdon
- Gemma Correll
- Carson Ellis
- Daniel Fishel
- Gilbert Ford
- Jessica Gibson
- Gina and Matt
- Grady McFerrin
- Jon Han
- James Gulliver Hancock
- Vashti Harrison
- John Hendrix
- Alice Lee
- Wendy Macnaughton
- Alex Eben Meyer
- Ed Nacional
- Christopher Silas Neal
- Christoph Niemann
- Lotta Nieminen
- Leif Parsons
- Richie Pope
- Ryan Putnam
- Sean Qualls
- Brian Rea
- Christian Robinson
- Edel Rodriguez
- Julia Rothman
- Leanne Shapton
- Yuko Shimizu
- Dadu Shin
- Felix Sockwell
- Katherine Streeter
- Neil Swaab
- Jillian Tamaki
- Gary Taxali
- Sam Weber
- Jing Wei
- Loveis Wise
- Olimpia Zagnoli
- Ping Zhu
Things I’ve Bought That I Love
Analog
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Leuchtturm Sketchbooks
my favorite notebooks—I always get blank notebooks that are letter sized or larger
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Blackwing Pencils
My favorite soft-leaded pencils
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Pilot Parallel Pens
Calligraphy pens for experimenting with broad-nib designs
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Tombow Brush Pens
Calligraphy pens for experimenting with brush lettering
- Glass DUX Pencil Sharpener
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Metal DUX Pencil Sharpener
Honestly, one of my favorite possessions
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Midori Brass Ruler
A beautiful little brass ruler
Digital
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Adobe Creative Cloud
I predominantly use Adobe Illustrator when creating my final vector artwork
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Big Cartel / Pulley App
The CMS / service I use for my online store
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Dropbox
Dropbox completely changed the way I work and how I organize files
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Kirby CMS
I use Kirby as the content management system for my website
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Kyle Brush
The best photoshop brushes around if you want to make digital work with analog appeal
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Glyphs
The font editor I use when designing typefaces
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Scanner Pro
This app is honestly life changing if you need to send documents or sketches to people. I no longer use a flatbed scanner at the office because of it.
Life Stuff
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My Favorite Clogs
In black, of course.
- My Favorite Backpack
- My Favorite Nice Work Bag
- My Favorite Casual Jumpsuits
- My Favorite Fancy Jumpsuits
- My Favorite Store in Brooklyn
- My Favorite Store in San Francisco
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My Favorite Dresses
I pretty much buy one of her crazy patterned oversized tee dresses every season.
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Things I love on Etsy
Some I have bought, most I have not.