Reason no. 21,325 why little girls are the cutest things ever: Check out the note my 8-year-old friend Libby left for her father on the garage door, after having heard he had a really hard day at work: 

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Welcome to Heven!!!! Where their is no work and only musages* and piece and quiet not to menchen hugs and kisses. So slip on those Ira socks** and fuzzy bear slippers and favorite P.J.’s but relax!!!!!

*I have a Free Musage Ticket that Libby once made for me as a gift for babysitting her guinea pigs. She will hole punch it to validate it after each massage. Unlike regular coupons, however, this one never expires. “If I run out of places to punch holes,” she told me, “I will just make you another!”

**Libby is referring to her dad’s black dress socks, which he has been known to wear with shorts, like their neighbor Ira does.

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This past weekend, 6 babies– 4 little nieces, 1 baby cousin, and our little granddaughter—all younger than one and a half—gathered in Dallas for a mass baby christening. My mother, ever the optimist, invited over 50 friends and relatives, hired a caterer, outfitted all the babies in tiny christening gowns and bonnets, booked 2 photographers, and called the first presbyterian church to tell them we were descending on them.

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… he designs some cool funky bike racks for New York!

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I am writing this on my blackberry at 3am from a dark hospital room where our poor daughter has been since Friday, sick with severe abdominal pain. Between taking care of her, a big catalog project, and a various other websites, blogs, flash pieces and identity projects, there has been little time for any diversions lately.

Fortunately, this hospital (like nearly all nowadays) offers its patients and guests free wifi so we can get some work done and stay in touch with the living.

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David read this article in the Dallas Morning News yesterday about another novel use for Twitter: as a play-by-play of what’s happening in Congress with the Republican uprising against Democratic leaders:

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In my latest issue of HOW magazine, one of my favorite design magazines which  has an active design forum, I read about these inexpensive miniature suitcases from Paper Source. Prices range from $6.50 to $12.50.

This would make a great thank-you to a client after you’ve "packed up" a big job and sent it off to print. (You could put a few samples of the print job in it.) Or maybe fill it with margarita supplies!

Note: for some reason, I only see red and pink available on the Paper Source site.

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Savor Dallas is an upscale yearly food, wine, and art event that showcases great chefs, winemakers, distillers, and artisans. We were fortunate to have had the opportunity to work with founders Jim White and Vicki-Briley-White on the design of this year’s poster. 

I designed this poster in Illustrator CS2, with each hand-drawn element on its own layer so that they could be moved and rearranged depending on the medium (poster, ads, website, etc.) Our goal was to capture the sophistication of the event along with the handmade artisan nature that makes it unique.

Download Savor Dallas 2008 Poster

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