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yellow canoe.

Won’t you be my neighbor? Yes, Erin Lang Norris, I will SO be your neighbor. If you do me one favor. I’d like one of these, these, and these. Please. And thank you. [Click here to shop Yellow Canoe, you friendly cardigan-sweater-wearing people!]

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marc johns.

Marc is a big man on campus around DFM. I love, love, love his work in such a huge way that I would ALMOST drop $100 on one of his pieces. And if you know me and artwork, it’s gotta come cheap or it doesn’t come at all. Marc makes his own sketchbooks, plays the

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sruli recht.

Ok. So unisex shoes. Who would have ever imagined? I happen to think these are totally awesome, and ABSOLUTELY as unisex as they get. Seriously. I want a matching pair of all for Husband and me. And the craftmanship? Simply amazing. Order one for each of you (a good Vday present, perhaps?) right here. YAY

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the story of stuff.

About an hour go, I finished finalizing tomorrow’s posts and was just about to shut down my computer to grab a bite to eat with Husband when I received an email from a good friend [holy run-on sentence!]. She forwarded me to this site, where a 20-minute informational [but NOT snoozey] documentary was compiled by

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marimekko for cb2.

Wow. I’m stunned, and so so excited. I always peruse through CB2‘s newest catalogs to see which design trends are transferring over into the commercial markets, fully expecting to find the norm. BUT. Today? Today I see that CB2 is now featuring original artwork straight from Marimekko, which just happens to be my FAVORITE international

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sacred mtn.

I have a bit of a design crush on Scott, founder of Sacred Mtn., mainly because of this image below: [I badly want to frame it on my office wall] Scott is the former creative director for Ordinary Kids, a bay area design studio specializing in print/interactive design. He’s now moved on to work with

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shhhh!

I’ve been working on something top-secret, totally fabulous and groundbreaking for the past few months, and it’s ALMOST FINISHED! It’s my gift to you all for being such talented and savvy readers, and I [truly] couldn’t have compiled something so fantastic without the daily inspiration you bring me. Anyway, I’ve got to get my ducks

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