It's Monday, and that means Strike My Fancy 06 is here. Threadless caught my eye this week with a funky, kelly green hero image for their eco tees. Other image credits go to Counter-Print (books), Art Co-op (text), and Design Observer (bottom bar). Strike My Fancy is a collage of my favorite email marketing pieces to hit my inbox from the previous week.
It's Monday (again already?!) and time for your weekly sneak peak into my inbox from the past 7 days. Net-a-Porter tops the charts with their gorgeous Parachute Silk imagery.
Image credits to the following: Works of Canvas: Piperlime; Parachute Silk: Net-a-Porter; Forms of Flattery: Piperlime; Garnished: Font Shop
A couple of weeks ago, I blogged about how I'd been contemplating senses and how to trigger them through design. I look back now and find it even more interesting, because at some point during my collision with cars and San Francisco streets, I lost my sense of smell.
Piccino, a bakery / cafe near B'stro, and the site of my bike accident
At this point, we're not completely sure if it's temporary or not, but I'm quickly realizing just now important sense of smell is. Losing smell has been good, bad, and interesting. Good because stinky things are no longer stinky, but bad because most smells I used to love are completely absent. And some of those smells — like coffee — now make my stomach churn.
Because sense of smell directly affects your sense of taste, I've been disappointed to realize that very few things taste. So this weekend, my husband and I decided to find out what I can and can't taste. As you may expect, less flavorful foods (bananas, beer and pasta) have zero taste, while flavorful things like garlic or spicy hot foods and very sweet foods (like Skittles) have claimed a minor stake on my taste buds. While it is a horribly sad thing not to be able to smell or taste bread, I've enjoyed finding new foods to try.
So here's my challenge to you. What should I try next? Just tell me what it is and where I can find it. If it's something I can make at home, post the recipe.
It's Monday already and time for another Strike My Fancy, your weekly sneak peak into my inbox. This week's email images are brought to you by Behance, The Zoe Report, Three Potato Four, ISO50, and Soia & Kyo. Oh, and have you heard? E-mail is now email. Thank you AP Stylebook!
A couple of years ago, I purchased the book How to Be a Graphic Designer without Losing Your Soul by Adrian Shaughnessy. Apart from TypoMundus 20, it's probably the second best book purchase I've made.
I originally purchased it for one chapter — the first one — for my Senior Project students to read, but quickly realized the entire book was spot on. Since then, about once a year, I pull it out to read through it. Not only does it include insightful ideas for designers, there are interviews and thoughts from Stefan Sagmeister, Neville Brody, and countless other influential thinkers and doers in design.
Originally intended for design students, it's a must-read for all designers at any stage. You can purchase it on Amazon for a mere $12 plus change.
It's Monday and that means Strike My Fancy, your weekly sneak peak into my inbox is here. Beautiful things happen when Diesel and Banana Republic collide. Wouldn't you agree?
Image credits go to Banana Republic, Paul Smith, Diesel, Threadless, and Etsy.
To kick off the new Places I Go theme for my Commute Design Project, I thought it would be a fun challenge to create a video. Challenge? Yes. Fun? Jury's still out. Let's be clear, I'm not a videographer by any means. I took a class on Adobe Premier in college, but that was a long time ago. Now, the only tool I have in my arsenal is iMovie, and for most amateurs iMovie is great. But being used having much more control in Premier, I spent the most part of 2 evenings just trying to figure it out.
That being said, I've had so many comments from friends and family wanting to see more of my new San Francisco world that however unprofessionally done it may be, I think Tracing My Steps is a great way to show that.
Music credit goes to Dusty Brown: This City is Killing Me — (It's not by the way)
And if it isn't obvious, the video was filmed entirely by my iPhone 3GS. I know. It's shocking but true. Old technology really does work.
If you're on a mobile device, go here: Tracing My Steps
Tracing My Steps from Brooke Francesi on Vimeo.