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• Commented on Face-Off: "True Blood" Covers
  rolling stone's a nice nod to the dwarves LP sleeve...
• Commented on Just Add Water
  really surprising to see who this is coming from. its interesting to see someone start such a heavily print dependent business as digital explodes. this especially seems dicey for custom publishing as i can see agencies going this route instead...
• Commented on The Face magazine, 30th anniversary
  post-brawl dammers with the half smile. jerry, show off your gap!...
• Favorited Field & Stream on Winners 2010
• Commented on Best Books Ever! (Part 6!)
  i stumbled upon that printed ephemera book awhile back on a blog after picking up a newer, similar release called "one-to-one" and it is definitely one of my favorites. one-to-one has a similar approach collecting reciepts, coat-check tickets, bus and...
• Commented on One Day Only: House Industries Pop-Up Shop at TDC
  i think the first one i got was for the chalet collection in like 2000. as always, crazy overprinting and custom french stocks. mmmm. still have a major soft spot for the flyer fonts!...
• Commented on One Day Only: House Industries Pop-Up Shop at TDC
  i would definitely pony up the dough for a complete set of their back catalogs....
• Commented on Best! Books! Ever! (Part 2!)
  a lot of these books seem kind of obvious as we've all had them as textbooks, but i have to back up the karl martens book as one of my favorite books, period. the production and construction on that thing...
• Commented on EW: The (Really) Small Screen
  ...one step closer to the USA Today from Back to the Future Part II....
• Commented on Ocala Magazine
  this cover is awesome. i love it when people bring in elements you can't create sitting at a computer. really smart approach for this one....
• Commented on Heating Up the Charts: Billboard.com Redesign
  great redesign. everything is presented really cleanly throughout. i especially enjoyed digging around the artist pages and past charts, which had a last.fm feel, especially in the related artists....
• Commented on Eat Cheap Eats
  maybe the high-end makeup with a spork is supposed to be ironic, but i gotta go with the dueling pizzas...
• Commented on Design Awards: Trade/Corporate
  moviemaker was sharp looking throughout. a pleasure flicking through that one at the judging....
• Commented on The Magic of Mystery
  wow. can't wait to crack this one open. i hope you guys let house go crazy with some of their signature overprinting in the well!...
• Commented on Capturing Hand Painted Signs In the North
  awesome. i love the weathered facets on that 'Fine.' even better than the last post! can you toss the rest up on flickr/facebook by any chance?...
• Commented on New York
  kaws is still unstopable. ORIGINALFAKE! is dan funderburgh part of mother or are they liking his work a little too much?...
• Posted Field&Stream to Contest
  Field & Stream is America's largest outdoor sports magazine, delivering extensive service, compelling stories, and great photography to an audience of over 9.5 million* hunters and fishermen. Founded in 1895, the magazine strives to capture the excitement of the outdoors,...
• Posted Field&Stream to Contest
  Field & Stream is America's largest outdoor sports magazine, delivering extensive service, compelling stories, and great photography to an audience of over 9.5 million* hunters and fishermen. Founded in 1895, the magazine strives to capture the excitement of the outdoors,...
• Posted Field&Stream to Contest
  Field & Stream is America's largest outdoor sports magazine, delivering extensive service, compelling stories, and great photography to an audience of over 9.5 million* hunters and fishermen. Founded in 1895, the magazine strives to capture the excitement of the outdoors,...
• Posted Field&Stream to Contest
  Field & Stream is America's largest outdoor sports magazine, delivering extensive service, compelling stories, and great photography to an audience of over 9.5 million* hunters and fishermen. Founded in 1895, the magazine strives to capture the excitement of the outdoors,...
• Posted Field&Stream to Contest
  Field & Stream is America's largest outdoor sports magazine, delivering extensive service, compelling stories, and great photography to an audience of over 9.5 million* hunters and fishermen. Founded in 1895, the magazine strives to capture the excitement of the outdoors,...
• Posted Field&Stream to Contest
  Field & Stream is America's largest outdoor sports magazine, delivering extensive service, compelling stories, and great photography to an audience of over 9.5 million* hunters and fishermen. Founded in 1895, the magazine strives to capture the excitement of the outdoors,...
• Commented on Nazis, Alcoholics and Potty-mouthed Rats: It's the Best Comics of 2008!
  chris ware is the best. period....
• Favorited FINI on What Are You Looking At?
• Favorited Bangalore Bounty on Grids
• Commented on FINI
  That blog is awesome. Focusing on what comes between the title and closer, nevver.com is a collection of stills paired with an mp3. Each ends up being a pretty interesting escape and riff on the original context....
• Commented on Best Holiday Gift Spot: Dashwood Books NYC
  Dashwood is hands-down the best photography bookshop in the city. David always has great recommendations and is very accommodating for special orders or tracking down stuff you just can't find. They keep a great selection of impossible-to-find-elsewhere, limited edition photographer...
• Commented on Bangalore Bounty
  Life Sucks Die, the old graffiti mag by the guys over at Burlesque, did a feature on Indian pasting and movie posters awhile back and I almost forgot about it. Those wheat pastes you posted are awesome! Do you have...
• Commented on Robert Pollard's Album Art
  This work is great! Not being into his music or Guided By Voices I haven't seen it before. Thanks for the post....
• Commented on Office Inspiration
  Spete!...