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Category: Design

  • Apps for Helvetica Lovers

    My undergraduate degree is in Communication Design (aka graphic design) and although I don’t do much design these days I do still have the font nerd inside of me. The other day I stumbled across an app called HelvTime that shows you the current time in a prettier (although less practical manner).

    HelvTime

    When I first downloaded the app it was having trouble updating the time but it appears that bug was fixed. While this app probably wont stay on my phone for long, because it doesn’t serve much purpose, I did decide to see if there are other apps that are an ode to Helvetica. And wouldn’t you know there are several.

    So I decided to make a list of Free Apps for Helvetica Lovers. Here are the icons of the apps. You can read my writeup/description/download link for each app here:


    6 iphone apps for helvetica fans
    iPhone Apps for Helvetica Lovers

    And in case you were wondering here are all of the Helvetica related apps on Appolicious.

  • Holiday Goodness from alice.com

    I can’t EVEN count the number of “so and so company is wishing you a happy holiday” emails I’ve received over the past few weeks. I’ve been deleting most of them *gasp*.

    BUT…

    I totally heart this illustration in alice.com‘s holiday email:

    happy holidays from alice.com

    Are you using alice yet? You should. I found out about Alice because my friend Rebecca does their PR. And since Rebecca is awesome I decided to check it out. That was over a year ago and I’m still a big fan.

    In case you don’t know what alice is, their tagline is “Everyone needs an alice”.

    Let’s face it; you can probably think of a thousand things you’d rather do than drive to the store again and again for toilet paper, toothpaste, trash bags and the dozens of other home essentials that keep your home running. We can too. That’s why we started Alice.

    The Internet has changed the way we shop for things like books, clothing, shoes and electronics. We buy online for the convenience and the power we have to get product reviews, choose brands, see price comparisons, and make better choices.

    But when it comes to home essentials, we still trudge off to the store, load up the cart, and haul a trunk-load of stuff out the parking lot. Why? Because no one has come up with an efficient, cost-effective way to buy these goods online. Until now.

    Last night (from my iPhone) I placed a very excited order of paper towels, new toothbrushes (we’ve been kinda sickly), laundry detergent, and toothpaste. These are all things I HATE buying at the grocery store, because inevitably I will forget the one mundane thing I went to the store for.

    This was post originally intended to share my love and all things pretty and apparently turned into a PSA for alice*.

    *I have yet to investigate how the blogging rules of using affiliate links and such work, so I’ll just tell ya that’s my “refer a friend to alice” link. If you using my link you’ll get a $10 credit (for a new account) once you spend $50 and I’ll get some monies in my alice bank which will probably go towards trashbag purchases**.

    **and wow that makes me officially old.

  • My Life in Photos

    This is beyond awesome! Lots of weddings, friend’s babies, pictures of my pets and of course me being silly.

    My Pummelvision from elysa rice on Vimeo.

  • My Year in Status

    So there are any number of silly facebook apps/games/plugins that I see on any given today. Today I saw one that made me stop… not because it was overly brilliant but just because I’m in a mode of “year ending” and I liked the visual recap provided of my 2010 in My Year in Status. So here is a quick summary of my year.

    my year in status

  • 400 ampersand glyphs: “Coming Together” to Support Haiti

    We have already established that I have a special place in my heart for ampersands. So, of course I was excited to see this morning from Veer that a new typeface with 400 ampersands was created to raise money for Doctors Without Borders to benefit relief efforts in Haiti.

    In response to the devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti, the Society of Typographic Aficionados issued a call to action to the typographic and design communities to participate in Font Aid IV. The result was Coming Together, an OpenType font that contains over 400 ampersand glyphs designed by participants from around the world.

    All proceeds from the sale of the typeface go to Doctors Without Borders, in support of continuing relief efforts in Haiti. Get it here for just $20.

    Here are some of my favorites from the collection:

  • ampersand: three-hundred and sixty five

    I think the sign of a true designer is someone who can appreciate a beautiful ampersand. If you don’t know what an ampersand is, I’m sorry we are going to have to break-up. You may not know but there’s a whole cult following around the love of ampersands. Today I discovered yet another blog (well tumblog to be exact) dedicated to  … you guessed it, my curvy friend!

    ampersandampersand.tumblr.com
    ampersandampersand.tumblr.com

  • Picturing the Past 10 Years

    This graphic recount of the 2000s is pretty awesome!

    via swissmiss

  • bad restaurant menu design

    They say don’t judge a book by it’s cover … but can I judge a restaurant by it’s menu? Because I do. That’s why I love that BittBox found a Flickr group devoted to Bad Menus.

    Burger and Sanuiches
    Burger and Sanuiches

  • this commercial is beautiful


    Audi Q5 Commercial – Click here for more home videos

  • 50 Inspirational Quotes on the Art & Science of Design

    50 Inspirational Quotes on the Art & Science of Design