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Stephanie Bradshaw Business Cards

{ Friday, March 23, 2012 }

We don't often feature our own designs on our blog, but we love how these business cards turned out so we thought they belonged here! We just completed the business cards for our Baltimore based design client, Stephanie Bradshaw. With a new logo, new brand color (bright gold), and painted edges, these cards are beyond cool. Next up is Stephanie's new website, which we're close to being finished with designing! Check back in about a month and hopefully we'll have announced that it's up and running. For now, enjoy these business cards and have a fantastic weekend!

gold business cards

painted gold edge

painted business cards


 

Jennifer Joanou Letterpress Letterhead

{ Monday, February 06, 2012 }

Last week, we went over to the Aardvark Letterpress in downtown Los Angeles to get our client Jennifer Joanou's letterhead done. It's always exciting to watch the process and see what they can do! Click here to see Aardvark's site and read more about their history.


 

Italian Picnic Basket Invitation

{ Wednesday, January 04, 2012 }

After a brief hiatus recovering from our travels and all the amazing holiday and new year's food we ate, we are finally back in the swing of things in Los Angeles. This pretty picnic basket invitation from Charleston, South Carolina is a very welcoming greeting to 2012 indeed! Designed and printed by Sideshow Press in South Carolina on a pony sized 1926 letterpress, the invitations were created for a private dinner gathering of the finest chefs in the Charleston area. We love the inventiveness of this invitation, but what's even better is that Sideshow Press is a collaboration of a few women who love what they do and are passionate about great design. Sounds familiar! Happy 2012 everyone!

All images via The Dieline



 

Website of the Week: Mrs. Lilien Styling House

{ Thursday, November 17, 2011 }

Mrs. Lilien (aka Kelley Lilien) is the graphic designer, stylist, and blogger mastermind behind The Mrs. Lilien Styling House, our website of the week (http://blog.mrslilien.com). Mrs. Lilien: "applauds luxury and anything red-letter. She delights in the good life, because it's just better. With boundless enthusiasm and an exuberantly sunny disposition, she just might knock your socks off with her MRS intuition." We're hooked already.

mrs. lilien blog

This blog stands out not only for the content, bright colors, and diamonds (love!), but also for the awesome rhymes. Mrs. Lilien, unlike any other blogger we've ever seen, writes her posts exclusively in rhymes. Like this post (below) about hair styling - it reads: "I consider myself a bit of a vanity ritualist - in other words, a serious beauty habitualist. There are few things as satisfying than holding court at the vanity - and playing the '...who's the fairest of them all?" fantasy. Mirror questions aside, this ritual is rather paramount - it's honoring the pleasures of beautification on every account. I have my coveted pleasures, some of which I'll share - these ones in particular are centered around my hair." How awesome is that?!

rhyming blog

The look of each post is fantastic. The entire blog looks and feels fun, professional, and stylish - and like a single post may have taken HOURS to research and create. Having a blog of our own, we really respect that! It's a time consuming process to maintain a blog, and to keep it looking fabulous. Our hats off to you, Mrs. Lilien!

And who can forget her home site, www.mrslilien.com? Although the blog is more fun, we love the look of her styling site (and all the work she's done!). Major kudos to NYC based Peniferella Creative for the website design. We love it!

Mrs. Lilien styling house

All images via Mrs. Lilien


 

Custom Chalk Art

{ Tuesday, November 15, 2011 }

What a fun job! Dana Tanamachi, a graphic designer living in Brooklyn, makes her living as a custom chalk letterer. Yep, that's right - she makes awesome, large-scale, custom chalk art for a living. She's so good that she's been commissioned by big name clients like West Elm, Rugby Ralph Lauren, Google, Addidas, Every Day with Rachael Ray, and more. We love it! We want something for our office!

custom chalk art

All images via DanaTanamachi.com


 

Website of the Week: LTRHD

{ Friday, November 04, 2011 }

This week we're all about graphic designer Mike McVicar's blog, LTRHD (www.mikemcvicar.com/blog/). McVicar, based out of Brooklyn, also doubles as a musician, and blogs about the things he loves the most, including typography, design, New York City, his travels abroad, music, and his own personal work. According to his website, he named his blog LTRHD (letterhead) because: "I like letters, and words, and words with other words... and letters drawn nicely, and words drawn nicely. It's my job." Well said, Mike. Well said.

We especially like the clean design, bold colors, and layout of the blog. He showcases his love for letterhead and typography very well, and includes a lot of great photos that he's taken of his findings, many with a vintage quality that we love.


See more of Mike McVicar's work on his main website, www.mikemcvicar.com.


 

Lovely Stationery Design for Anthropologie

{ Thursday, September 15, 2011 }

One of the most covetable business cards / stationery sets we've ever seen - designed, of course, for none other than Anthropologie by Alana McCann and Kathryn B. Fabrizio, with Art Direction by Carolyn Keer. We love the simplicity, clean design, vintage typeface, and white on white color scheme. Does it get any better?anthropologie business cardanthropologie stationerywhite on white stationery

Images via Lovely Stationery


 

Inside the DFM Studio...

{ Tuesday, July 26, 2011 }

We've been busy at work in the DFM studio the last few weeks on a great package project for an interior design client - at least our project is colorful!

Messy Office
Interior Design Project

Photo © JW

 

Special Brands

{ Friday, July 08, 2011 }



Images via September Industry

 

Fashion Week Invitations

{ Friday, February 11, 2011 }






A few really creative invitations for NYC fashion week found originally at Refinery 29.  
1) Rachel Antonoff
2) Honor
3) Rivera Club
4) Study NY - The Study NY Collection is being presented at The Standard from 2 - 4pm. The more the merrier, so check it out. 
5) Rochambeau