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Studio Notes #94

Hey there, Friends. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 📞 iPhone charging docks that look like old pay phone enclosures. Complete with optional graffiti, stickers, and urban wear by mural artist, Nicky Davis. I always dig a good mix of old and new

Studio Notes #93

Howdy, Pardners. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 📷 A few ol’ internet pals have released v1.0 of their Mac photo editing app, Aphera—“Raw editing for photographers who chase feeling over formula”. It looks fantastic, and I'm looking forward

Studio Notes #92

Hello there, Very Fabulous Folks. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🎥 Christopher Nolan's upcoming The Odyssey film was filmed entirely on IMAX cameras. Because of the size and sound dampening enclosure, it means it got in the way of the

Studio Notes #91

Greetings, Excellent People. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🚩 Felt pennant flags have always been cool and Roman Boujo traced their origin from Middle Ages wars through early 20th century college football. There truly is something about cut-out felt sewn onto

Studio Notes #90

Hello, Kind People. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🪣 Studio DRAMA has done some outstanding custom typeface work for KFC’s new rebrand. I mean, I prefer Dave's Hot, Cane's, or even Popeye's, but The Colonel

Studio Notes #89

Hello there, Esteemed Subscriber of Newsletters. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🖨️ Designer and printmaker, Scott Boms, has launched Matter Editions, a studio for his risograph and screen printing experiments, books, zines, etc. Love the site and ethos of “moving slow” in

Studio Notes #88

Greetings, Good Folks. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🥏 Master type and lettering designer, Simon Walker, made The Cover Letters Archive to feature his collection of album art. A no-brainer follow! And let this be a formal plea to the emoji

Studio Notes #87

Hello, hello, Grand Beings. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🌵 As a longtime fan of the old Hilltop Steak House on Route 1 in Saugus, Massachusetts, this glimpse into the home of late owner Frank Giuffrida is quite a 1970s time capsule.

Studio Notes #86

Good morning, my friends. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 📼 The day after Stephen Colbert's final Late Show, he filmed an hour long special in Monroe, Michigan on their local public access cable channel. “It’s been an excruciating 23

Studio Notes #85

Hello, Friends! Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🧢 This week I came across Lost & Foundry, a cool shop that sews vintage patches on new hats. They'll even make you a custom combo from their giant patch library. Lots of

Studio Notes #84

Greetings, Bon Vivants. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🖼️ The level of detail and intricate line work of these art prints by Richard Nadler is otherworldly. The scale is immense, but I like how subtly abstract things get when you zoom way

Studio Notes #83

Hello, Very Fine People. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. I'm writing today from Chicago, where I was chair for the Society of Typographic Arts STA 100 competition. Shout out to judges Lauren Hom, Lisa McCormick, Damian Orellana, and Simon

Studio Notes #82

Greetings, Friends. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🏊‍♂️ Lithuanian artist, Ray Bartkus’, Floating World art installation had me stop in my tracks this week. The idea of painting an upside down mural on the side of a building so that it shows

Studio Notes #81

Happy April 24th, Y’all. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🕹️ Current MIT students paid homage to a legendary 2012 “hack” by recreating a playable Tetris game on a 21-story building on the university's campus. The building's

Studio Notes #80

Good Morning, Good People. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. ♟️ I've had a very on/off relationship with chess. Learned it young, never great at it, but always had an interest in it. Both of my kids had short stints

Studio Notes #79

Howdy, my friends. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🐥 I haven't watched the whole documentary yet, but this clip explaining how Carrol Spinney operated Big Bird by himself is remarkable. One hand for the mouth, but a pinky of that

Studio Notes #78

Hello hello, and greetings to you, beloved reader. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🎻 Charles Brooks takes beautiful photos from the inside of various musical instruments, revealing hidden architecture and insanely detailed miniature "rooms". The mood and lighting captured in

Studio Notes #77

Howdy, folks. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🧳 I love Antiques Roadshow. And the best segments of the show are the ones where the owner is genuinely shocked about the value of what they've brought in. Usually it's

Studio Notes #76

Greetings, friends. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🔥 Yet another briefly-engaged-in hobby I had growing up: Collecting matchbooks. Even when I was a clueless middle schooler I was drawn to the designs, the type, printing techniques, etc. and started a

Studio Notes #75

Hello hello, and greetings to you. Here's issue #75 of Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🍋 I came across a new-to-me band that made me temporarily feel better about the world. They're called The Lemon Twigs. And boy did it make

Studio Notes #74

Grand Risings, my friends. Here's issue #74 of Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🚙 Seeing the illustration style of British artist, Tommy Spencer, made me smile this week. It reminds me of record covers and picture books from the 1970s and I'm loving

Studio Notes #73

Hello, amigos. Here's issue #73 of Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🧱 French street artist, le cyclop, paints bollards to make them look like LEGO heads. I love that they use one-eyed stickers to keep the faces on brand. And the stencil to make

Studio Notes #72

Hello, Hypertext Penpals. Here's issue #72 of Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🍎 I ended up backing a new Kickstarter this week for Coin, a tiny “knife” that’s the size of a quarter. Fits on a keyring, has a bottle-opener. That cool-looking,

Studio Notes #71

Greetings, Warriors of the World. Here's issue #71 of Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🏄‍♂️ Today's visual meditation is a non-narrated, lamination and glassing of a Timpone surfboard in their Maui workshop. The craft is on full display here and everything is

Studio Notes #70

Howdy, Fine People. Here's issue #70 of Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🧳 This book is an instant add-to-cart: Hotel Retro: Vintage Luggage Labels from Tokyo to Buenos Aires is a forthcoming hardcover from the Letterform Archive that collects 330 travel stickers from