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This FPO's Not Forever

This FPO's Not Forever

Tina Roth Eisenberg, the Brooklyn-based guru behind Swiss-Miss (possibly your favorite design blog), Teux Deux (possibly your favorite get-it-done app) and more, has a new venture in Tattlys -- clever, well-designed, not-permanent tattoos (three things you possibly didn't expect to read together). Each Tuesday, a new batch is released and yesterday's designs seem custom made for print loving people like us. From the Swiss-Miss herself:
... this week's design are a homage to print design. We launched two new artists: Jason Tiernan debuts with FPO (For Placement Only), a cheeky little placeholder for your forthcoming Tattly endeavors, and our own Yoko Sakao Ohama joins the fun with Crops. Josh Smith returns with the ever-classic Golden Ratio, and I contributed a colorful CMYK Tattly.
Get your own set here.
Whats On Your Wallet?

Whats On Your Wallet?

Need a geeky gift for a designer out there? OK, you may just want one for yourself (mine arrives in 5-7 days). Have a look at Dynomighty Design's Color Bar Mighty Wallet ($15.00). This wallet will go well with your Pantone coffee mugs and Creative Suite throw pillows. Check out Mighty Wallet's video after the jump...… MORE
Best! Books! Ever! (Part 7!)

Best! Books! Ever! (Part 7!)

We're refocusing our energies after a leisurely holiday break, slowly working our way through our growing list of designers and their best books ever. Join us as we inch towards the 50 designer mark.
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Best Books Ever! (Part 6!)

Best Books Ever! (Part 6!)

As promised, compelling submissions from artists and design aficionado friends of SPD... who probably spend a good portion of their incomes on books that ought to make our list. Inspiration from some unique sources follow.
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Best! Books! Ever! (Part 5!)

Best! Books! Ever! (Part 5!)

This list makes 25! More great design books from your friends and peers--purchases you need to make to fill up that Herman Miller bookcase. If you have a book you'd like us to include, contact me at ganderson@spotnyc.com...… MORE
Best! Books! Ever! (Part 4!)

Best! Books! Ever! (Part 4!)

C'mon Creative Geniuses: Ostensibly we didn't rise to greatness on the sheer force of our good looks! Admit you've sourced all kinds of books for visual advice to help you dazzle, inspire, and bend-to-your-will your lunk-head editors. Did I say that out loud? Yes I did! Here are 5 more from all corners of the imagination.

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Hardware: Flip Camcorders

Hardware: Flip Camcorders

I was given a Flip UltraHD Camcorder camcorder to make a short video for a website, and was soon sold on my sweet little toy's charms. Could I just use the video setting on my digital camera instead? Sure, but somehow the Flip is just more fun. … MORE
Best! Books! Ever! (Part 3!)

Best! Books! Ever! (Part 3!)

Now that I've exhausted the patience and goodwill of my coworkers, I've moved on to colleagues' favorite design reads. Please note that we're now on numbers 11 through 15. It's like Julie and Julia! Can we make it to 100 designers? … MORE
Best! Books! Ever! (Part 2!)

Best! Books! Ever! (Part 2!)

Again, Andrea Dunham and I are on a crusade to solicit your thoughts on the one design book you make sure to keep handy at your desk (or night table, if you're really into it...). Before polling the masses, I took one more swipe at getting my fellow SpotCo colleagues to weigh in. 

Andrea and I are aiming for 100 designers (and however many books that ends up giving us), so here are numbers 6 though 10, including my selection.
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Best! Books! Ever! (Part 1!)

Best! Books! Ever! (Part 1!)

Women on a mission! Andrea Dunham and I are on a crusade to compile the Best! List! Ever! We're hoping you'll indulge us when we come to your online doorstep in pursuit of the one design book on your shelf that you can't live without.

The easiest place for us was to start was with our coworkers, so to get things rolling, I strong-armed my SpotCo designers into action: … MORE
Mini Modernist Book List

Mini Modernist Book List

Fellow design book fetishists: One assumes you fancy yourself a taste maker in all that you do, so your home reflects your sensibilities as an arbiter of all that is clever, creative and hip. But add a baby and sh*t hits the proverbial Cirrus Ceiling Fan. You don't panic, not you. You simply develop a costly, all-consuming quest for children's books that will serve as window dressing for the munchkin's bookshelf to artfully disguise the stacks of (equally brilliant but lesser designed) reading material that, well, your kid will more likely read, but you find a little ahh... pedestrian. Shudder. Never fear. The following books (shop them all here) make great gifts for your breeder friends or keepers for your own little tyke's library that make the immediate statement that you are A) an brutal aesthete who doesn't abide Junie B Jones and B) unapologetic about it. Feel free to add to this list; the goal is to fill that Eames bookcase to the brim and that alone-- takes a village.  … MORE

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