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via Nathan Bransford

Some liked Nancy Drew but I was a Trixie Belden girl. Actually, I was a Harriet the Spy girl. Regardless, I am loving this secret camera book over at  fred flare! Somehow though I think my high awkwardness factor would prevent me from successfully using it.

photos : fred flare

Look at these beautiful notebooks by Studio Violet (a joint venture of Camilla Engman and Elisabeth Dunker) …

(photo: Studio Violet … see also their blog for more work)

I love this colour palette so much, it reminds me of my all-time favourite King Penguin book cover:

… so I had to get them. And a postcard set too.

It’s Gocco-central around here as I get ready for the Hoopla show here in Toronto (more about that soon) so blogging will be light for the forseeable future … in the meantime here are somethings I’ve been enjoying lately:

• eraser with 28 corners, at Tokyo Mango
• lovely Japanese mail order catalog (corduroy flat club!), at Moving Hands
• new lorena barrezueta jewelry, (you might know her line of ceramics based on classic take-out/disposable dishes) via sub studio design blog
• conversation with Paul Rand, on Swiss Legacy

I really loved this week’s Type Tuesday post over at Uppercase Journal. The pictures are simple, yet so personal and evocative. It inspired me to try and dig up some of my old notebooks from elementary school and … I’ve got nothing! At least not in my house. Hopefully there is a box somewhere at my parents’ house full of old treasures like this. I did find this though:

… neat end papers in a “Daily Mail Annual for Boys and Girls” from 1947. Not quite the same old school aesthetic that Janine is doing so well over at Uppercase, but still nice - speaking of which, I am so looking forward to getting a look (even if only online) of the Uppercase Old School show which starts in August. If you live in Calgary you can check it out in person!

I realized that I have quite a backlog of paperbacks that could be added to penguin paperback spotters. These are two of my favourites: