Sorry the site’s been out of whack the past few days. Thank you to everyone who has been so kind as to alert me of the issue via emails and Twitter. (And extra shouts to Stefan who was kind enough to fix it for me.)

Now that that’s out of the way, please allow me to indulge in some navel gazing and blatant endorsing… I recently had the immense pleasure of working with Ben & Selina over at Studio on Fire to produce a pretty complicated invitation I designed for an upcoming wedding. Seriously, if anyone is looking for a printer, pleeaaaase drop them a line because they were so attentive, thorough and all around lovely people to work with.

Ben & Selina recently did a write up of the invitations they produced for me on their blog, Beast Pieces if you’d like to check it out and see more photos.

Can’t get enough of Lakshmi. This editorial is from Vogue India May 2009 and was shot by Jean François Campos. This is really making me want summer to start now.

See the full editorial here.

I got an interesting email from Becky regarding a collection of perfume factices she just unearthed from her grandparents’ house. Perfume factices are larger versions of regular perfume bottles that are primarily used for perfume counter display. I never realized how beautiful these can be! (And every time I see Laura Ashley I think of Mary Anne from the Baby-sitter’s Club books!)

Becky is selling her collection. Please visit her site to get more information. Thanks Becky for sharing these!

Saw Bil Donovan’s work as part of the fashion illustration exhibition at the Society of Illustrators. Just simply amazing.

Jordan posted today about her friend Cardon Webb whose exhibition, Cardon Copy, is at the Type Directors Club right now in NYC. I loved the typography so much… I also noticed that some of the posters seem to be from my neighborhood in Queens!

From his mission statement: “Cardon Copy, takes the vernacular of self-distributed fliers and tear-offs we have all seen in our neighborhoods. It involves hijacking these unconsidered fliers and redesigning them, over powering their message with a new visual language. I then replace the original with the redesign in its authentic environment.”

Saw photos from this shoot styled by Jane Roarty at Black*Eiffel and thought I’d share. Amazing weather for this weekend in New York. Happy Weekend!

Dear Nalini tipped me off to the brand Mona & Holly and their current Spring 2009 collection. Inspired by neat and proper service uniforms, I only have three words: fresh to death. I thought I was loving yellow last year, but now it’s become an obsession. And the stripes! Can’t wait to see what comes next.

Loved this rose dress on Fifi. Be sure to check out Fifi’s shop for prints of this and her other outfits.

Lakshmi Menon’s editorial in Vogue India’s March 2009 issue caught my eye… This was shot by Prabuddha Das Gupta and styled by Edward Lalrempuia. Loving the color (holy saffron!) and textures against that distressed setting. See the full editorial on Edward’s blog here.

I want it to be summer. Now. Saw these printed lounge shorts at Old Navy. Cute for the beach or vacation. $10!

The last few Anthropologie catalogs have been fantastic with respect to color and texture combinations.

There is a great set of vintage beer cans up on Flickr by Lance Wilson. Lance told the blog TheDieline that the cans are a “… portion of an extensive beer can collection (2000+ cans) containing cans from the past 70 years …”

Amazing how far the packaging and typography has come. Loving the tag lines too: “The beer with the million dollar flavor.”