geek love...

The web-designing geek in me NEEDS this shirt.
Although, in all honesty, I'd probably just end up sleeping in it.
Maybe a framed print of the phrase would be better?
I smell a project...

available for pre-order here.

quick news...

Last Friday, one of my fav bloggers, Erin, of Elements of Style, came by for a visit with her adorable pup, Oliver. Check out her lovely recap post here. To be honest, I am blushing ear to ear being featured on her blog today, it's like when your favorite band gives you a shout-out mid-set :)

Also, we are throwing a big studio opening party on November 12th!!! There will be drinks and snacks, music and dancing... RSVP here.

And lastly, are you our fan on facebook yet? If not, what are you waiting for??
Become a fan of Daucus Carota here and become a fan of Jessica Sutton Graphic Design here.
Done and Done.

Lots of love on this Monday morning!
xx

image via le fashion

embrace...

I want this poster.

by Paul Thurby, available here
via Illustration Friday

putting it in perspective...

What a creative way to explain bit sizes! Certainly helps me wrap my head around the size of my 2-terabyte hard drive! The packaging design is great, love the matryoshkus concept :)
designed by Lebedev Studio

you can buy me...

So it's decided that whoever find me this poster/painting will win my heart forever...

One of my favorite songs from my favorite Beatles-era (sorry dad & brother, I know you guys are more of a yellow-submarine-period fans)... seriously though, this rocks my socks more than anything I've ever posted on this blog before.

that is all.
xx

via whoa-nellie

this pretty much...

sums it up.

via fadetodirtgrey

graphing...

I forgot how nice it can be to sketch on graph paper and these drawings by San Francisco-based Rachel Robertson have done a great job reminding me... off to the art store I go! Wait, where do you get graph paper??

Check out her flickr here and her etsy here.

how slinky...

I spotted this installation on the Summer Street bridge in Fort Point last night after leaving work.

Anyone else see it?

Better yet, anyone know who's responsible?

I love the colors - what a fun surprise :)

More pics here.

tea for two...

and two for tea :)

cups by Copenhagen-based Jette Arendal Winther, via fffffound

optical...

I was stopped in my tracks by this shadow on my walk to work today as the direction of the sun caused the chain-linked-fence's shadow to look like my favorite scallop pattern.

from my flickr.

getting to the point...

I FINALLY took some pictures of our new Fort Point studio yesterday!

Jen and I moved in back in September and between both our schedules, the process of setting up is taking a while. So it's a work in progress - we still need a rug, curtains and desperately have to hang up all of Jen's gorgeous prints... But enjoy!


Welcome to our new studio! JHill Design on the right, Jessica Sutton Graphic Design on the left :)


a cozy little corner for reading, sipping tea, greeting clients...
I got the couch, desk, coffee table and chair (cropped out on the left) on Craigslist - all via Crocodile Tears!! I recovered the chair with Amy Butler fabric. The vintage desk lamp was my grandfather's.


all the ceiling lights, shelves, storage boxes and blanket are from IKEA...


This space heater was my grandfather's...
Amy Butler fabric on the windows (for now) and striped IKEA fabric hides shelves for storage..


Intern station on the left, my station on the right... desks are Melltorp dining tables from IKEA.
Both chairs were bought from Craigslist (white is West Elm, black is Knoll), the cart is a vintage folding medial cart (circa 1970), all found on Crocodile Tears!


grabbed this wireform when Parlor was closing for $10!


the lovely miss Jen Hill!


I found this old sewing table in the trash!! Just put our coffee machine on it today (not pictured)...






Our little mascot, mr. Oscar... :)

To see more, you can check out our photostream.

The lovely miss Keyse also featured us on her blog here!

careful now...

If I owned this beautifully delicate lamp (?), I would most likely break it in an instant...
definitely not puppy-friendly ;)

Don't know the origin but spotted it on ffffound

lost...

Sorry for the lack of posts this past week! I've been buried under a massive pile of deadlines that don't seem to be disappearing anytime soon... I'll try my best to sneak in some posts here and there but check out some oldies and goodies you may have missed in the archives :)

imagery via flickr by Andrew Dyjak, with photo credit to Joshua Stearns

let it fly...

love the use of patterns here. pretty.

by Marco Cibola, via booooooom

pistachio...

once again, by Klas Ernflo (sorry, just really feeling these tonight!)

black white and...

plaid all over. i like this.

by Klas Ernflo, via ffffound

different perspectives...

New York based artist, Aaakash Nihalani works with bright tape to create rectangles and squares around New York to “highlight the unexpected contours and elegant geometery of the city itself”.

I'm liking his perspective, makes you think a bit, which we don't often do when walking down the street.

via itsnicethat

it's all in the lighting...

hole-punched photos on aluminum by Daniele Buetti... simply magical :)

it's all in the details...

how intricate! i never would have the patience for something like this - i would totally start it and then quit halfway through. thankfully, there are people like mark andrew webber to take care of these things the rest of us.

check out a few samples of what i mean, below. (first, a linocut of paris. second, a print made from a linocut of amsterdam) amazing!

- amie