Move fast for El Jefe concert prints
November 2, 2011, by happykatie in Art, Design, Happy, PrettyIf you’re a fan of lovely concert poster design, move quickly on the latest Fab.com deal featuring Jeffrey Everett of El Jefe Design‘s great rock posters and art prints. Have you visited Fab.com before? You must sign up for a free ‘membership’, which involves giving them your email. From there, you get alerted about cool [...]
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Venn diagrams with important life lessons
July 22, 2011, by happykatie in Art, Design, Totally randomToday’s inspirational content from happykatie is brought to you by a bunch of sarcastic logicians with perveted senses of diagrammaticism. In a word: awesome. The graphic design client conundrum by Colin Harman Everyone has a friend that should wear this shirt from Diesel Sweeties, right? Tokyo Mango identifies 3 personal loves of mine in [...]
Continue reading →To my Adam:
February 14, 2011, by happykatie in DesignGreat Valentine’s Day card from Oh Joy
Continue reading →(Don’t) Use Your Words: Visual Communicators Rock! presentation
September 11, 2009, by happykatie in Design, PR / Marketing, Public Speaking, Visualization(Don't) Use Your Words: Visual Communicators Rock! View more documents from Katie Laird. The great folks at IABC Houston invited me to speak this week on creating effective presentations and communicating visually. This is a topic I'm a crazy fan about as I have sat through many a Powerpoint that has been a) nap inducing [...]
Continue reading →Typefaces give us signals…
August 25, 2009, by happykatie in Design, Typography, VideoTypefaces give us signals from erik spiekermann on Vimeo.
Continue reading →Life drawing for fashionistas
May 15, 2009, by happykatie in Crafty / DIY, Design, Fashion, VideoEver get that fashion design bug or incredibly strong desire to draw random outfits on random people? Check out this great Threadbanger how-to fashion sketching video from their recent visit to the Simplicity design headquarters. Awesome.
Continue reading →Manufacturing your creative genius with Ponoko
April 3, 2008, by happykatie in DesignPonoko (the world’s first personal manufacturing platform) announced the winners of their Jewelry Design Challenge today. If you’ve never visited before, Ponoko is essentially a simple way that designers can get their designs (whether jewelry, house or other functional or decorative ideas) created out of a variety of materials. Apparently, it’s all about the laser [...]
Continue reading →Threadbangers – DIY with love from YouTube
November 13, 2007, by happykatie in Crafty / DIY, Design, Howto, Video, WeblogsI’m so in crafty-love with Threadbangers – a killer online DIY network full of how-to crafty videos, forums and brain candy for those that want to re-fashionize their wardrobe and look fah-bulous doing so. There are oh-so-many dedicated crafty and DIY fashion sites out there right now, both for selling/purchasing handcrafted goods (or gleaning ideas [...]
Continue reading →How to customize your Typepad design (even when you’re a slacker like me)
November 12, 2007, by happykatie in Design, Howto, Social media learnin' 101 series, Web/Tech, WeblogsI have to brag on my company‘s Creative Director Tim Newton, as he has pumped out a couple of really killer tutorials in the last week. First it was How to Design Email Newsletters for Outlook 2007 and more recently he threw up a super-easy Typepad Blog design customization tutorial. As long as I have [...]
Continue reading →Words you find on the things you buy
August 1, 2007, by happykatie in Art, Business, Design, PR / MarketingChocolove Originally uploaded by cknlomein Packaging matters to me. A lot. Unique touches and good design sway me greatly in my purchasing choices – I will be far more likely to spend a little more cash if a product is thoughtfully constructed. Yes, I’m a sucker like that. Here are 2 swell examples of unexpected [...]
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