Singer/songwriter Mitch Davis, aka Orba Squara, has a new album coming out called “The Trouble with Flying.” You might remember his tune ‘Just in Time’ from the original iPhone 3g ads. To help promote the release, he recently launched a super ambitious web experience that weaves his song’s lyrics with documentation of a ten day journey across America.

The website is literally one long (420 ft!) scrolling set of images that feature a mixture of photo collage work, beautiful typography, and contextual illustration. The result is an incredibly rich experience and is highly recommended! From the research I’ve done, it appears that the group Random Collective are the geniuses behind the website, although I can’t find any concrete information about them. To whomever designed this thing: my hat is way the hell off to you.

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Today my lovely friend Dakota directed me to the portfolio of Stripe SF, a graphic design firm in San Francisco. They have a lot of interesting work, you should check it out!

2/4 of a silk screened poster series. I really like the idea.

In case you don’t know, I’m a sucker for bright colors and crazy patterns.

I really like this footnote. I’m currently setting my first 200+ page book, and have a new found respect for details. Stripe has a lot of nice books in their portfolio, I wish we got to do more projects like that.

Rachel Denny makes domestic trophies out of  hand knitted wool and carved foam. They almost look like hand puppets coming out of the wall. There’s also something a little suffocating about them…

Happy July 1st, everybody (rabbit, rabbit)!   

In my real life, I’m a crazy bargain hunter (craaazzzyy) and since I spend a lot of my time scouring the interwebs for new content for OK Great, I come across a lot of goods that catch my eye but don’t make it onton the blog for one reason or another.  Being a thrifty shopper, I bookmark damn near every bargain buy I find, swearing that I’ll purchase each “later”.  Later inevitably turns to never and they get lost in the veritable corn maize that is my desktop.So!

After the jump, my top 10 picks for items, big + small for the savvy summer shopper…

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Dylan and I are going to Maine for what I have come to believe is a well deserved vacation.

Here’s my vaca wardrobe swipe:

Well, that’s either my wardrobe inspiration or Dylan in 35 years. Both options: sweet. Peace!

Photo credit: crabshack. Weird.

Look over there! In the right sidebar. We’ve launched a hotline + voicemail system where you fine readers can call in and speak your mind.  Because sadly, the internet doesn’t allow for inflection. Every Friday, we’ll post the week’s messages in the player and create + post a new topic for the coming week for you folks to respond to. There are a handful of messages already in the player, so you can get a taste of the things to come. Real human voices! Yessss.
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To get this party started, we’re hosting our biggest giveaway yet! With fifteen total winners. We’ve teamed up with some of our favorite artists who’ve donated their goods to kick this thing off!

Here’s the deal: Call us at 1-866-556-9432 and be sure to leave your first name and last initial. Comment on this post with the same info (so we can find you when you win!) Entries are open until next Sunday night (7/5) at 11:59pm. We’ll choose our 15 winners randomly and announce them the following Monday (7/6).  This week’s topic?  Let’s keep it simple: Which one of the 15 prizes do you want to get your hands on?

Onto the goodies…

On the left:  Atlanta designer Mark Weaver donated the Lynx print we blogged about a few weeks ago. A personal favorite.  On the right:  The ever popular “Things I Like” design from Richard Perez is a poster for the first time ever.  18×24, 4-color screenprint.  You can snag it now before it’s available for purchase!

$10 towards a t-shirt, a print, a tote bag, a journal (or anything else) from the Barehanded Press store!

Awesome jewelry pack from Plastique in LA. Three rings + two necklaces. An $80 value!!

Jardin de Ninos (Stefan Joch + Andreas Putz) have donated four (!) of these oversized, screenprinted posters, each in a different colorway.  One per winner.

A GrandArray pillow set from our friend Hannah Stouffer. Bottom line, someone’s gonna have a hot couch.

Readers choice: Sycamore Street Press is giving away one of these two new posters, not yet available in their store!

Flytrap Studios has donated this great set of four cotton table napkins. A different silk screened design on each!

These 2 good lookin’, motivational posters (minus the kitsch, plus good taste) from Right Brain Terrain are going to brighten someone’s workspace. One per winner.

A (pretty) $5 gift certificate for the item of your choosing from the wonderful Two Brunettes shop.

Local hero/photographer Tim Lytvinenko is giving away this print set. Ten 4×6 photographs!

Good luck, everyone!  And a big thanks to all of the artists that kindly donated their goods!

Everything in Portland designer Gavin Potenza’s portfolio is great but this burst of color in his original stamp designs really caught my eye.  

Today is Take Your Dog To Work Day! Mingus & Asa are here today to celebrate. I think we have the luckiest pups since they always get to come to work with us! You can read about Dottie’s day on phetched or you can check out some cute pictures of our doggies on our flickr.

I love Peregrine Honig’s series of paintings titled “Exposed” featuring stuffed animals coupled with pop culture news headlines. Her work largely deals with issues of being a girl, and then a woman, in contemporary society. What I love about her work, and why I think it succeeds in it’s intent, is how deceptively simple it is. It’s incredibly accessible, but exhibits an incredible amount of complexion and depth upon further examination. PLUS… it’s often very funny.

See more of her work after the jump…

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We just got our first fluorescent job ever back from the printer!

It’s a brochure for the Health Policy Certificate Program at Duke. Using a fluorescent ink is tough because you can’t know for sure how it’s going to look until it’s printed, but luckily our clients were really great and put their trust in us. And the piece turned out great! These photos don’t really do justice to how bright the fluorescent is, but you can use your imagination.