Christine's Design Blog

Nina noticed this hilariously simple yet direct sign on a little fence leading to the front door of an apartment building in the East Village today.

It’s quite basic, but that is one infographic that gets the point across.

How lovely are these? Sighted in the Upper East Side on my way to the Whitney Biennial exactly a month ago, the day before the exhibition closed.

Look at this beautiful tin of coffee sent to me by good old Ben — who, by the way, just got hired at Microsoft at their Seattle headquarters! Congrats, Ben!

The coffee came to me a couple weeks ago in a package, along with the postcard. Ben seems to have made it his mission to send me delicious coffee from his travels (first was from Hawaii — in fact, that was what prompted me to purchase a coffee maker in the first place, and it’s saved me tons of money), and this one came from Cafe Du Monde in New Orleans. According to Nina, this coffee is quite famous and is generally the one used to make those condensed milk coffees at Vietnamese restaurants.

The coffee is delicious, and the tin is so wonderful that I think it will make up for the sorrow that will inevitably strike once I’ve finished the coffee. I wish I knew more about the design and how far back it goes. What is it about vintage packaging that’s so scrumptious?

This video’s hilarious, created by FaceOut Books … Came across it on Drifting Creatives’ Twitter. Seems it was also a part of Make|Think.

I myself love books (so much so that my childhood dream was to be a novelist) and would hate a world without print, so this is very fun to watch. Well, things being smashed is always fun to watch anyway, right?

My school friend Jason Wong’s adorable outfit on Friday! Jason is a Digital Design and Interactive Media student at Pratt.

During class, Nina and I saw him wandering about in the hallway through the open door, and just had to track him down for photos. Luckily, he appeared of his own free will on the third floor of the Pratt Manhattan building.