a girl named fred

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do you watch mad men? i think it’s one of the best shows on tv. i love it! and i love this poster for season 3. great metaphor, dontcha think?

brand new is offering these sweet sketchbooks for five bucks a pop.

i have always been a very fairweather sketcher… i’ve kind of avoided it, actually. convinced i couldn’t sketch to save my life. and then i took david sherwin’s 80 works for designers course, and now i sketch. he really  helped me understand the value of sketching… for the creative process, for clarifiying my thinking, for giving mee room to make mistakes. so i’m thinking a few of these sketchbooks might come in pretty handy!