I'll take you there

Beautiful, beautiful transportation typographic maps by Fadeout Design.



The SF one is actually BART, not MUNI. (I mean it's the cross-bay light rail commuter system, not the bus/tram system of the city.) It's a little misleading. Still beautiful, though.

High five

I really like the bags Threadless is doing - the long strap and short handles are great. My favorite.

One hand in my Poketo

I had a bag from Poketo that I loved. (Still love. Unfortunately a toddler dragging it down the sidewalk didn't really make it any better.)

But I digress from my main point, which is that Poketo has fun stuff.

Not the Dewey decimal system

Now, there's no way in the world I'll be able to afford this, but it's not just about possible, right? We've got to celebrate the covetable.




This is by Finnish-Ugandan designer Lincoln Kayiwa. I adore the way it makes a mish-mash seem purposeful. I mean, this is sort of what my bookshelf looks like anyway, only boringly flat.

Also...baby.

So there's a lot of nice stuff out there. But sometimes I see something that just makes me go ding! And it's often not the cutest thing or the design-y-est thing or the most on-trend-y-est thing out there.

It's just something that I, Maya, love.

Like this.



Even though it's from Urban Outfitters and I have nowhere to put it, I am vastly tempted.

Etats unis

Oh, damn! Missed this sale.

Hot on the heels of Anna's ILOVECALI necklace find is this.



But California is sold out, oh no!

I actually love all Kris Nation's stuff. I mean, this!



And this!



(You know, with a name like that she should also be doing countries.)

Lorum shmorum

And speaking of the shape of t-shirts...

Not to criticize, Veer, but I have some criticism for you. See, I'd buy this if it were a different shape.



But you know I love you, really. I own two (2!) typography hoodies after all. (I know, that's weird. It was an accident.)

Everything is a plate

From Everything is OK, a new piece of irony in the form of a collectible plate. Which, actually, would be really fun to serve cake on. Collect all one!

Instruit en amusant

My friend Anna pointed me to this great image blog, agence eureka.

Don't you want to play alphabo? Educational and fun!

Match up

From my friend Chris, who mostly knows about this, comes a tip:



I like that it's lower case, because if you think about it, isn't lowercase more common? By Voila.

Hose off

Another cool thang by Ray Fenwick, available at Faucet Face.

Striking

I've always loved matchbooks. I'm really sorry restaurants don't offer them anymore, even though I know it's the smoking thing. But they're so much fun to collect, which is why I want:

this book

and


this book.

(Sorry about the crappy Amazon pictures.)

Leads in performance

Okay, it's a little bit hard to see (and I'm too lazy to tinker with the photo on a Sunday morning) but I loved this. It was set into the floor at what is now a Honda dealer - so it's a little sad, really. But check out the awesome rocket logo. Atomic age!

Area where?

New shop to get all covetable about - Areaware. Check out some of my favorites.

Obviously cool:




There are *so* many decals now, but this is truly different. Plus, you know, type as decoration, love it.

The songs of the fifty states

A new, major covet - the work of Frank Chimero, which I saw on bangs, a beard and ballyhoo.

Just look:





And then this is awesome - the covetable states of america. Makes me wish I lived in Colorado.

Amping up

Awesome blog about ampersands. Spot them in the wild! Found via Typophile.



Not quite as cool as if it were a pilcrow blog, but still. (Actually there's a pilcrow stream on flickr.)

I heartily encourage this trend

Following in the line of "not a plastic cup" and the even better coffee cup coin purse, another backflip product.



Found at cut+paste, which has a lot of fun stuff sort of in the Fred Flare vein.

Upper(nut)case

Yes, well, of course I like this. I liked it the moment I saw the cover. Then I liked it when I read the copy on their website, below the photo (text that - almost troublingly - seems to be written as if it were targeted at me, which probably means I am supremely unoriginal. Or it's my Canadian genes.).



I didn't have to see the kind of things they like to know...well...I'd like them, too. But look at them anyway. And they have some pretty books, including one with a great theme - art by artists all named Jennifer. I love a good gimmick.

Labels I Like: Or, What I Got at Target - Part II

This is probably not very good coffee. But I had to buy it, just for the tin. Only I liked the color scheme of the decaf, which you can see - blurrily - on my stove. Sideways.

Rad Fenwick

Remember Ray Fenwick? I keep talking and (talking and talking and talking) about him because he's fantastic and in thirty years I'm going to be boring people at his retrospective at sfmoma by telling them that I always knew his was a genius, always knew it!

Well, I admit I'm not the only one who knows. Tiny Showcase does too, and they've restocked a shirt they carry with a great Ray Fenwick design.


And don't forget to sign up for the regular Tiny Showcase stuff - it's a brilliant idea and has a devoted following that's totally warranted.