instapaper_embed( "http://www.rexblog.com/2013/05/30/49347", "The best recommendation I’ll give all year – Steep Canyon Rangers w/ Steve Martin & featuring Edie Brickell", "" );Credit: Eric Frommer, via Flickr. (Creative Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0)If you live in or near a city where the… Read More

You don’t need to be four years old to appreciate the mechanism that sets this interactive design in motion. Similar to the fun kids have with pop-up books, I found myself pulling the tab at the top of this greeting… Read More

Opening Day for the Brewers isn’t always baseball weather in Milwaukee. Patches of snow, shrunken and gray, cling to the grass and the temperature is a balmy 27 degrees with the wind chill factored in. No one seems to mind… Read More

It’s been a long, punishing week. You’ve gone over and over a design in preparation for a client meeting. You’ve crafted what you think is the perfect look, and prepared yourself for every argument.… Yes, I can make the grass Read More

Spring is the preferred season in my Midwestern region, primarily because it represents the snow thawing segue into summer’s heat. Spring is green grass, colorful flowers, blue skies, chirping birds, scurrying squirrels; life awakened.  Spring inspires, and it’s no wonder… Read More

One Easter, I filled an outdoor planter with fresh purple pansies tucked in among yellow Easter Basket grass. Within a week, the planter had been raided by robins – the yellow grass popping up in bird nests in the trees… Read More

A photo I took of Thile (singing) on August 30, 2006 at Nashville’s Belcourt Theater. Thile started his post Nickel Creek era with this group called, “How to Grow a Band.” Except for the legendary bluegrass guitarist, Bryan Sutton (right),… Read More

“The smell of a freshly printed book is the best smell in the world,” says Karl Lagerfeld.… It seems Lagerfeld’s sentiment (pun intended) inspired world-renowned publisher Gerhard Steidl to kick off this project. Wallpaper* Magazine subsequently commissioned master perfumer Geza Read More

Earl Scruggs, 1924-2012 [Updated: 3.29.2012, 8:10 a.m.] Yesterday, the legendary banjo player, Earl Scruggs, died in Nashville at age 88. It’s hard for someone who doesn’t play the banjo to understand fully the role of Earl Scruggs in the development… Read More

Book production specialist Sagim has increased its orders by 20 percent and stretched profit margins on short runs, following its investment in the KODAK PROSPER 1000 Press. The KODAK PROSPER Press has enabled the company to be more competitive and… Read More

Gorgeous use of metallic screenprinting by Duffy & Partners for Grassini Family Vineyard, a vineyard in Santa Barbara, CA. Bottle labels are individually signed and numbered; the wax seal on the top of the bottle is hand-dipped. More after the… Read More

At first thought, most would provide no hesitation to answer in the affirmative to this question.  However, dig a little deeper and you may be surprised to find out that “digital” and “environmentally friendly” are not synonymous with one another. … Read More

"Corey's wheatgrass is a packaging project for juice shots and cut wheatgrass for smoothies and salads.… Read More

Today you will learn how to create a grass background using the Transform & Distort effects and Phantasm CS Halftone. Phantasm CS in combination with other effects allows you quickly create very complex textures. See this yourself by studying the… Read More

Diamonds might be a girl’s best friend, but to get your foot in the door, chocolate is the way to go.… Case in point: Falco Design created a sweet campaign to help long-time client, All-State Legal, attract new accounts. Inspired Read More

From time to time we showcase something a bit out of the ordinary here on FPO. I'll jump right to it and let Max Ackerman explain: #2(HB) is an installation that uses defunct billboards in downtown Providence Rhode Island. These… Read More

How do three colors, letterpress, and debossing team up to send an understated message? More is less in this case as every vibrant detail harmonizes into one soothing song of eternal summer. It makes me crave baseball. One could easily… Read More