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From Bisgràfic studio: The Positive Posters. Info here.

Found via Zachariah Moreno

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A Perez Hilton exclusive: Meiko performs The Piano Song and something new, In Love.

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Fresh from my mailbox: A set of Valentines from the great Marian Bantjes.

And if you haven’t already, be sure to snag her incredible I Wonder.

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‘Human suitcases’

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Hearts, hearts, Eames chairs and more. The work of Michael Osborne.

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‘In daily life and at work, the analogue production world is far away for the majority of people’

This year’s calendar from Thomas Krug and Traffic goes back to basics.

Less digital, more tactile. Screen printed art punctuated by laser dies and perfs. Each month has ‘show thru’ to the next.

2011 artists include Wlodzimierz Szwed (type), Dirk Pokoj (ink, paint, screen), Gisela Berger (pastose, acrylic, graphite) and John T. Manshaupt (red chalk, Chinese ink/acrylic).

For more about the Traffic Agency go here.

(And here’s another look at last year’s offering)

Thanks to Thomas Krug; and to Carrie Svozil for holding this year’s award-winning kalender for the camera

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Found via Laura Wong

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‘Interesting to see which colors went first. PMS 485, PMS 183 and Silver 877 seemed to be the most popular’

Kim Neill’s Pantone color chips in tasty cookie format.

Details and recipe here.

Found via Chank Diesel

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‘Meyer lemon cream, vanilla infused bittersweet chocolate ganache, layered with vanilla tea shortbread, chocolate dacquois and a touch of meyer lemon marmalade all wrapped in bittersweet chocolate mousse’

Just in time for Valentines. Details here.

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‘AdViews is a digital archive of thousands of vintage television commercials dating from the 1950s to the 1980s’

Website here.

Found via Daniel Will-Harris

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Recently we dropped in one of our favorite places, Duarte’s Tavern in Pescadero, CA. Their incredible Cream of Artichoke Soup is worth the drive – among the other freshly grown offerings on the menu.

Snag the recipe for their artichoke wonder here. Plus, their Cream of Green Chile Soup is also pretty dang good, tho a bit quicker to make.

And, of course, ocean views on the drive to and fro are part of the package.

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