Originally designed by Massimo Vignelli in 1966, the Stendig now resides in the Design Collection of the Museum of Modern Art. The calendar is set up in the ‘Eurpoean Style’ with Monday being the first day of the week and it rotates back and forth between black and white pages for each month. Not for [...]

I’m sure that most of you already know about the Fliqlo screensaver, but in case you don’t, it’s a modernist’s dream. Fliqlo turns your desktop into an accurate, oversized clock and best of all, it’s available for both Mac and PC users!

Everyone has used sticky notes, but they are rarely as stylish (or as practical) as the Graph Cube Post-It. The stack features 1,000 sheets that are printed with a 13 x 13 grid square. Perfect for doodling, writing in a straight line or just making your desk surface more stylish! I bought mine this weekend [...]

Yes, I have found true love in a camera. Being a faithful Nikon user since 2002, I just purchased the Nikon Coolpix P80 and it’s everything I could have hoped for. For the last five years, I have used the Coolpix 8700 and it held up amazingly well through 7 New York visits, a cross [...]

  Is it a lego? Is it a hard drive?!  I just became the proud owner of a LaCie Brick external hard drive and I couldn’t be happier with it! I first noticed it on my friend Star’s blog and loved the looks of it. It also has 500 GB of space and is super [...]

1. The month of May from my self-designed calendar can be downloaded here.    2. Also, I just received two new typography books: a. Type & Lettering by William Longyear;    b. Type by David Gates;    Both are of the vintage variety and the pages are composed of super cool alphabets though I mainly [...]

     Yesterday, my copy of Lettering for Reproduction by David Gates showed up! Published in 1969, it covers everything you need to know about designing hand-lettered type (after all, this was the age before personal computers) and the content is based on Pratt Institute’s Dept. of Advertising Design and Visual Communication Lettering Course from that [...]

The author I credit with teaching me the most about design is Jan V. White. A former art director at Time-Life, he’s written more than a dozen books on visual techniques focused in publishing. The best part about his books are the sketchy images (no fancy, computer-generated pictures here)! Instead of huge, wordy paragraphs, he [...]

  STABILO is a German maker of pens for writing and coloring as well as highlighters for office use. The company was founded in Nuremberg in 1855! I just picked up a mini set of my favorite felt tip pens ever, STABILO! They last and last; I’ve had a lone red one for three months [...]

Before digital cameras, instant photo gratification was left to the trusty Polaroid. Polaroid’s Land Camera, the first instant camera available to consumers was released in 1947. Polaroid still sells a selection of instant film directly from their website, though it can be pricey and many of the older formats have been permanently discontinued, including the [...]