cool, cute website of William Broome who does graphics for people like Marc Jacobs and Vivienne Westwood.
http://www.williambroome.co.uk/

Porftolios

It's that time of the year again, when everyone is scrounging for jobs and filling their portfolios with projects to impress the employer. And when you are stuck, on a layout, or colour combination, or composition, what better way is there than to look at what others have done?

Sometimes I check out fffound.com for good layouts and colours
or
carbonmade: an online portfolio service, for mostly visual artists (graphic designers, illustrators, fine arts, etc. There is no Industrial Design category)
http://carbonmade.com/

SVG or EPS?

Just incase you didn't know. because I didn't.
http://www.vectorgraphic.co.uk/filetypes.htm

And a really really great image / background vector resource.
http://www.bittbox.com/

A good beginner's BASIC Indesign Tutorial
http://vector.tutsplus.com/tutorials/designing/design-a-print-ready-ad-in-adobe-indesign/

enjoy!

I also discovered google reader. Unfortunately, it doesn't capture the little things [that I post here] that pleasantly surprise me when I'm normally browsing, but it does find me a LOT of neat stuff to look at. see mine.

web dump

ok. coolest thing EVER.
http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr#
The colourlab by IDEE searches for pictures from flickr by colour. So if you pick red, a slew of red photos in the tone you chose will show up. I think you can pick up to ten different colours.

http://colourpost.blogspot.com/
This blog hasn't been updated in a while, but if you browse through the archive, there are good palattes.

http://pingmag.jp/2008/09/25/thoughtful-design/
thoughtful packaging design

http://www.jamesbowskill.com/offtheshelf/
a scrapbook of japanese packaging design

Joseph Joseph

I love everything they have.
I am currently obsessed and in love and awe with everything Joseph Joseph that lines the shelf. The colours are fresh and the products reflect a certain thoughtfulness in the design and consideration of the user -how the product is used, where it is placed for storage, the user's needs, etc.

link: Joseph Joseph

Measuring Type

This is an interesting project I found (Measuring Type by Matt Robinson and Tom Wrigglesworth). Here, they measured the efficiency of ink for different font types that were commonly used. Kinda neat!

via: design for mankind
link: Matt Robinson, Tom Wrigglesworth

Japan travel:: People/Fashion

green pants, arnold palmer belt

kiddy bandaid

pink sneakers

hooligans

Shibuya

vest, cargo. tee, dress

red shoes

florals

tee+dress

shoes

flood jeans

rubber boots

baggy jeans

long dress

Roppongi Hills

burberry dress

floral prints

vest

khaki suede shoes?

man with backpack watering can

Ginza

mother daughter match

Akihabara

plaid under polo

double layering dresses