This is a pretty amazing process.  I’m even more impressed by this book now.  If anyone wants to buy me the $4,600 version shown in the video, don’t.  I’d drop chocolate all over it.

It also reminded me that I keep forgetting to link to perdy, another place that I’ve been posting to.  It’s mostly pictures of nice things that I like to look at and don’t want clogging up this space.

40 WiNKS in London via apartmenttherapy.com

Maybe I’ll just look at it and think “pretty” after the disaster that was The Jane Hotel. Neat, inexpensive hotels that seem too good to be true and me don’t mix.

CD and website design

It’s been awhile since these were finished. I used a lot of things I’ve had my eye on for these two, like Kevin Cornell’s Phaeton font. You can see it on the cover of the CD as well as in the banner. I also used a few of his figures from the font on the inside.

Most of the other things I’ve been looking forward to trying are under the hood of the website. I think the best way to keep a site up to date is to aggregate the information you are already inputting on other sites.

Ianfitzgerald.com pulls from tumblr, last.fm, and flickr. I don’t like when sites are a mess of branded social networking widgets, but it’s great to take advantage of the work put into keeping those sites up to date.

I wasn’t going to do this, but these are haunting me now.  I first saw the poster on Apartment Therapy and, as you can see from their search results, it has exploded. It morphed from an unknown war slogan to an overused apartment poster. Here are a few links to buy posters and variations on the original that I have run across this week.

• keepcalmandcarryon.com poster
• “keep calm and rock on” poster
• “keep calm and eat lunch” bag from sammo on etsy
• “keep calm and fake a British accent” via rastasamuri
• “keep calm and make tea” via fabtab