Design

Typefaces give us signals…

August 25, 2009, by happykatie in Design, Typography, Video

Typefaces give us signals from erik spiekermann on Vimeo.

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Life drawing for fashionistas

May 15, 2009, by happykatie in Crafty / DIY, Design, Fashion, Video

Ever 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.

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Manufacturing your creative genius with Ponoko

April 3, 2008, by happykatie in Design

Ponoko (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 [...]

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Threadbangers – DIY with love from YouTube

November 13, 2007, by happykatie in Crafty / DIY, Design, Howto, Video, Weblogs

I’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 [...]

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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, Weblogs

I 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 [...]

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