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Mikado Font [Friday Favorites]

Happy Friday! I have a new favorite font for you guys! Looking at this font just makes me happy. It makes me feel like a fun summer is approaching and I just want to go eat snoballs, ride a ferris wheel and lay out on the beach!

Mikado is a friendly, casual type family designed by Hannes von Döhren. It is intended to be used everywhere where a pleasant feeling should be conveyed. It has the openness and regularity needed for agreeable reading, and a lively and informal appearance that makes it shine in large headlines, slogans and logos. Mikado has a positive, kind of “out-of-the-box-appearance” in big sizes, but because of its straight architecture the fonts are also very legible in smaller sizes and longer texts – in print or on screen.

Mikado is equipped for complex, professional typography with alternate letters, ligatures, arrows, fractions and an extended character set to support Central and Eastern European as well as Western European Languages. Love Potion and Brandon Grotesqu, two of Hannes von Döhren‘s other fonts have shown up on this blog before as favorites!

 Mikado Font

Description and samples from MyFonts.

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Jazz Festin’

I’ll be out at Jazz Fest today, tomorrow and Sunday. It’s going to be a wet and muddy one today, and strangely cool for this time of year. Hoping that tomorrow looks more like these photos that Zander took last year. Have a great weekend and see ya back here Tuesday with a new business advice post from Mariah!

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snoballs

chair fortress

lucky shot

roman candy

karate

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soul food

tom petty paint

chillin

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Grace Design [Friday Favorites]

I just love this handmade Etsy shop called Grace Design. Grace is a Toronto-based handbag and accessories brand utilizing found textiles by Canadian designer Alison Gledhill. Alison’s Spring collection has just been released in her Etsy shop!

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When I was a child I saw a woman selling dresses made from sari silks at a market in my hometown of Victoria, British Columbia.

“I thought this fabric was one of the most beautiful things I had ever seen and it conjured images of palaces and maharaj, smoky mysterious places, exotic smells and foreign music. At that time I vowed to myself that when I was old enough, I would go to India. Several years later, at the mature age of 20, I did in fact go to India and returned to Canada with a backpack full of sari silk. I promptly started sewing clothing, pillows and bags and selling them at local consignment shops. Since that time I have traveled far and wide in search of beautiful and unique textiles to use in my designs, from the Thar desert in Rajasthan, India to Tokyo, Japan to Oaxaca, Mexico.”

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To this day I still lovingly gather textiles from around the world to use in my designs.

“Though I have traversed down many avenues in the past fourteen years, I always return to this and I know that this is what I am meant to do. After all this time, I can finally call myself self employed. Grace is a collection of accessories made from found, limited edition textiles that have been sourced through my travels. The fabrics I search for are storytellers, they speak of their history and traditions of craft, of adventures abroad, foreign marketplaces, culture and creativity.” -Alison Gledhill

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Festival Fashion [Friday Favorites]

Outdoor festivals are one of my favorite things in the world. It’s about that time of year when there is one every weekend! Coachella is next weekend and then we have French Quarter Fest, Jazz Fest and a million others here in New Orleans! As you can see, I have been going to Jazz Fest since I was a baby and I have just about perfected my festival attire. It gets HOT at Jazz Fest so I usually wear shorts and a loose tank top. I also love wearing dresses but you have to do the sit test before leaving the house in a dress! I’m always sitting indian style or lying down, so I need to make sure the dress is long and loose enough that I don’t end up flashing anyone! It can also get really muddy so rain boots or sandals that won’t get ruined are a good idea. A hat and shades are also a MUST since it is usually sweltering and I have fair skin. I like adding a few accessories like flowers, bracelets, belts or a cute iPhone case but basically I keep it bright, simple and comfortable. Here are some of my favorites for an effortless festival look!

What to Wear Festival Fashion

Mint Lace Shorts / Hello Sunshine iPhone Case / Jelly Sandals / Straw Hat / Fringe Crossbody Bag / Rain Boots / Floral Crown (or DIY) / Retro Sunglasses / Braided Skinny Belt / Strapless Dress / Crochet Tank / Friendship Bracelets

festival fashion favorites

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Olive Box [Friday Favorites]

Olive Box - Hand-picked paper & lifestyle products delivered monthly to your door

Okay y’all know I love good design right… and paper… and getting stuff in the mail. So when I recently discovered Olive Box, a subscription for curated paper products, it was like a dream come true!

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As a member of Olive Box you will receive a delightful box of paper and lifestyle products delivered to your door each month. From cards to artwork to inspiring books and gifting ideas, you never know what exciting products you will unwrap each month. Each box has a surprise theme and will include goodies that have been transformed by the beauty of paper.

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Great news for y’all! Founder, Grace Kang, of Pink Olive, was nice enough to offer a 10% discount for Ciera Design readers! Just enter the code “cieradesign10″ at checkout to receive the discount! It’s valid through 03/31/13 (and only one per person). Enjoy, friends! Images from Olive Box.

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Trend is Trending [Friday Favorites]

As I have mentioned in the past, I love fonts that have layering options and I’m back today with a new one for you! Trend is a font made of layers with both a sans and a slab serif option and lots of different styles including inline, shadows and dingbats! Loving this font, hope y’all do too!

Do More Of What Makes You Happy Trend Font hr

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PLUS get free shipping through the 17th!

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Top 100 Design Blogs To Follow In 2013

Do you ever find it a little overwhelming trying to figure out which blogs to follow? You can’t follow them all or you would never get any sleep! Well Joe Cole made things a little easier by putting together an infographic listing the top 100 design blogs to follow in 2013. And I am SO proud to say that THIS BLOG made that top 100 list! It’s pretty awesome to see Ciera Design on the list with some amazing blogs, and many of my personal favorites!

Top 100 Design Blogs To Follow Infographic

To view the infographic (which was a little too long for my blog), click here. And since Joe’s graphic is not clickable I added all of the links for his top 100 design blogs below! Check out the graphic, and the list below and hopefully you’ll discover some great new design resources. And thanks again to Joe for including the Ciera Design blog! Do you have any favorite design blogs that did not make this list?

Top 100 Design Blogs To Follow In 2013

1.http://webdesign.tutsplus.com/ • 2. http://www.colourlovers.com/blog • 3. http://www.awwwards.com/blog/ • 4. http://designmodo.com/ • 5. http://naldzgraphics.net/ • 6. http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/ • 7. http://www.designzzz.com/ • 8. http://www.youthedesigner.com/ • 9. http://coolhunting.com/ • 10. http://www.codefear.com/ • 11. http://graphicleftovers.com/blog/ • 12. http://creativenerds.co.uk/ • 13. http://www.graphicmania.net/ • 14. http://www.icanbecreative.com/ • 15. http://stylishwebdesigner.com/ • 16. http://creativeoverflow.net/ • 17. http://www.booooooom.com/ • 18. http://www.itsnicethat.com/ • 19. http://www.psdvault.com/ • 20. http://stuffandnonsense.co.uk/blog • 21. http://www.smileycat.com/ • 22. http://smokingdesigners.com/ • 23. http://uxbooth.com/ • 24. http://www.orphicpixel.com/ • 25. http://photoshopsupport.com/ • 26. http://sachagreif.com/ • 27. http://www.thefoxisblack.com/ • 28. http://www.graphicdesignblender.com/ • 29. http://www.7boats.com/author/debajyoti • 30. http://www.weheart.co.uk/ • 31. http://www.pondly.com/ • 32. http://www.designfollow.com/ • 33. http://www.designjuices.co.uk/ • 34. http://www.92pixels.com/ • 35. http://designwebkit.com/ • 36. http://www.sitebee.co.uk/category/blog/ • 37. http://www.altitudesummit.com/content/ • 38. http://nubbytwiglet.com/ • 39. http://www.designerblogs.com/the-blog • 40. http://iainclaridge.net/ • 41. http://www.mydesigndeals.com/blog/ • 42. http://www.designpanoply.com/blog • 43. http://theinspirationgrid.com/ • 44. http://www.snapily.com/blog/ • 45. http://randaclay.com/articles • 46. http://www.visualwatermark.com/ • 47. http://www.cre8d-design.com/ • 48. http://www.topcreativemag.com/ • 49. http://thedeependdesign.com/blog/ • 50. http://www.jbiwebdesign.co.uk/ • 51. http://www.tipsquirrel.com/ • 52. http://designstutorial.com/ • 53. http://www.ddesignerr.com/ • 54. http://www.creativepublic.com/graphic-designer-blog • 55. http://www.coalesceideas.com/ • 56. http://akadesign.ca/ • 57. http://couchable.co/ • 58. http://www.designquotes.com.au/insiders/ • 59. http://anothera.net/v2/ • 60. http://www.extremestudio.ro/ • 61. http://inkbotdesign.com/blog • 62.http://www.andybudd.com/ • 63. http://www.circleboxblog.com/ • 64. http://www.topleftdesign.com/blog/ • 65. http://www.dvorakdesigns.com/blog • 66. http://www.re-nourish.com/ • 67. http://www.seascapewebdesign.com/blog • 68. http://godsofart.com/ • 69. http://www.designsojourn.com/ • 70. http://www.sherykdesigns-blog.com/ • 71. http://thewebshoppe.net/ • 72. http://magculture.com/blog/ • 73. http://cieradesign.com/blog/ • 74. http://www.delphine-ephemera.com/ • 75. http://graphicdesignertips.com/ • 76. http://timothybrand.com/ • 77. http://www.designerbooster.com/ • 78. http://graphstock.com/ • 79. http://www.jellylondon.com/illustration/blog • 80. http://www.pixelsmithstudios.com/ • 81. http://boutiquebydesign.com/blog • 82. http://www.artjunks.com/ • 83. http://www.mindblossomcreations.com/ • 84. http://www.promisetangemanblog.com/ • 85. http://www.thesportsdesignblog.com/ • 86. http://www.interactivered.com/ • 87. http://www.squareinchdesign.com/ • 88. http://www.thevisualrealm.com/ • 89. http://www.maxx-design.co.uk/ • 90. http://www.freshlookwebdesign.com/ • 91. http://kolorkube.com/klick • 92. http://www.designers-books.com/ • 93. http://davidnbrooks.com/ • 94. http://sapphiregraphics.co/ • 95. http://www.rairdesign.com/ • 96. http://www.digital-telepathy.com/ • 97. http://www.pinegateroad.com/ • 98. http://www.artbyherbie.com/latest-articles • 99. http://kauaidesign.com/ • 100. http://kittyasapicture.com/

Audit conducted by CouponAudit in January 2013.

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Love Potion Font [Friday Favorites]

While love is in the air, I want to share the cutest little hand drawn serif font family, Love Potion. Three fonts (regular, bold and ornaments) that include extravagant ligatures, swash letters, catchwords, arrows, borders and other little specials. Seriously adorable, right?

Zander and I are going to celebrate Valentine’s Day tonight. With Mardi Gras on Tuesday we just couldn’t handle it yesterday. Did you do anything special yesterday?

Love Potion Font

Love Potion Font Usage

Description and samples from MyFonts.

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Winter Essentials

Today is the first day of winter so I have some favorites for the season for ya! What are your favorite styles for the winter? I have a whole bunch of family in town so I’ll see y’all back here after Christmas!

Winter Essentials

 

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Dom Loves Mary Font [Friday Favorites]

Happy Friday! I am SO excited about today’s favorite font! Last week I received this amazing box in the mail presenting a new font from Debi Sementelli and Brian J. Bonislawsky of Correspondence Ink. The font, Dom Loves Mary, was inspired by and created in memory of Debi’s in-laws, Dominic and Mary Sementelli. The package was such a creative way to present the story behind the font and also included some amazing letter pressed note cards from Aerialist Press!

Dom Loves Mary Script Letterpressed Cards Aerialist Press

Dom Loves Mary Script Font Promo Box

 

WHAT’S UNIQUE ABOUT THE DOM LOVES MARY FONT FAMILY:

The script and text fonts are lettering styles that were made to compliment each other. The script, with a vintage, classic feel, will add elegance to your design, while the text serves to offer support with easy to read simplicity.

In addition to the standard character set, each of the uniquely styled script fonts includes a collection of flourished ornaments. Use them to create corners, headers or other embellishments to complete the look. And if you really want to fancy things up, they offer two sets of 72 additional flourishes that were specifically made to add to upper and lower case letters for easy customization. Dress them up with one, two or more. It’s like choosing simple pearls or piling on the glitz!

Dom Loves Mary also has a set of the most frequently used add-on words. This set of 66 includes envelope friendly titles including Mr., Mrs. and Miss, as well as words to fill out your invitation suite including RSVP, Respond, Save the Date, Accommodations, Directions and more! Add-on words also include angled words like and, at, to, on, for, from and of to add a special touch to your large groups of copy.

 

Nothing Worth Having Comes Easy by Ciera Design

I had some time to test out the font and I just love all of the variations and flourishes it offers! For the design above I used a combination of the three Dom Loves Mary script fonts for the wording (you get all three in the Pro package). The capital N is from the Stylistic version, while most of the lower case letters are from the Contextual version. To encapsulate the saying, I chose two simple flourishes. The top one comes from Flourishes One set, while the bottom is from the Flourishes Two set. To read more about the inspiration behind the Dom Loves Mary font (it is truly a great story) and the diverse packages available for purchase head over to Correspondence Ink on MyFonts!

A VERY SPECIAL DEAL FOR CIERA DESIGN READERS!

Debi is offering 40% off her new font with discount code “bloglove” when you purchase at MyFonts, this is an amazing deal!

I received a copy of Dom Loves Mary c/o Correspondence Ink. All opinions are my own.

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