Jonas Damon Numbers Clock

Such a beautifully modern and fun way to tell time. Who needs all those overly designed clocks that play songs or scream at you, all I want to know is 'what time is it?'
That's why the numbers clock by Jonas Damon is so great. Stripped down to the most basic and necessary components, you can stack and rearrange the time as you please. Plus, it has an alarm that promises not to speak to you in tongues. Get them in a bunch of different color options here .

Another teaser on the Custom Show - This B.U.D.'s For You

Another quick tease on a couple customs for the upcoming show at Hero! Get more info about the custom show here.

The Collectors

Rotofugi, one of our favorite designer toy stores, has made an brilliant little animation advertisement, The Collectors, which showcases some of the coolest and our most favorite toys of all time, animated and collecting… HUMANS!

Typographunnies

Typographunnies is a wonderful collection of geeky type jokes. Read, laugh, share and submit your own.

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Happy First Day of Autumn!

Today is the first official day of Autumn, my most favorite season!! This time of year means sweaters and coats, apple and pumpkin picking, cool nights of sleeping with the windows open, going to Letchworth, the list just goes on.... I just love it.

Check out these great Autumn inspired prints from etsy:
(And of course check in on Hero's etsy shop while you are there. )

Boto and Botokas Favorite Season Print from botodesigns

Autumn Owl Tree from yumiyumi

rust tree with bird from carambatack

Acron Tree from marykilvert

Autumn Orbit giclee print from beeskneesstudio

Anorak - The Happy Mag for Kids

Came across this on notcot.org - a great looking, well designed kids magazine from the UK called Anorak Magazine. Check out their website for fun, free goodies. You can subscribe here - 4 issues is only $30 to the US or you can purchase single issues of the magazine at these following US locations:

• Amble Gallery (Philadelphia)
  1001 N. 2nd Street, Suite 27
  Philadelphia
  PA 19123
• Barnes & Noble (Nationwide)
  Nationwide including
  Boston
  New York
  Chicago
• Blue Ribbon (NYC)
  365 State Street
  Brooklyn
  NY 11217

The Swell Season - see them!

If you get a chance to see The Swell Season on this tour, definitely do it! We traveled up to Toronto on Saturday to deliver the posters and what a great show. The band got us front-row seats and the show was one of the best we have been to in a while. Glen was totally engaging, appreciative and energetic and Marketa was sweet, funny and very humble. They played for just about 2 hours and you could tell they would have played all night if they could.

Glen loved our poster and he even signed and doodled on one for us. The poster is available now here.

The Swell Season Poster

Hero was hired to create a poster for The Swell Season's show this Saturday, September 20 at Massey Hall in Toronto. The band will be selling this poster at the show.
The poster is 4 colors - 18" x 24" and it GLOWS IN THE DARK!!!! Available online and in store this Monday September 22 at 12pm EST.

Design Freebies

Free Design is a side page of blog Design is Mine. Created because Summer Allen-Gibson, baker, illustrator, and mum, suddenly realized that somebody had to weed through all the bad freebies on the internet and find the ones that are inspiring, creative, and generally well designed. This is a great blog that you need to bookmark and check out often! This blog is littered with free desktop wallpapers from artists, e-cards and more.

Crappy Cat Interactive

Check out the Crappy Cat interactive theater.

Stop Forwarding.

www.stopforwarding.us

This is just too perfect. A way to anonymously ask that certain friend or family member to "knock it off with the forwards already!"

There are a few people in my family (and friends) that insist on sending ANY and EVERY awful forward they get to not just some, but ALL of the people in their address book. And for that matter without using the BCC feature. Come on people, not only do I not care about 'what women say to their husbands to avoid sex', or about 'all the funny things Sarah Palin has said so far', I don't want all your friends doing the ONE thing that I don't want them to do, which is the dreaded REPLY ALL!!! (and I know at least one will do that)

While we are on this topic, just because I know you, doesn't mean you can add me to a HUGE mailing list that you don't plan on keeping private. Great, you have a wonderful art opening this weekend and you invited me and EVERYONE else you know in Buffalo, at least do me the service of keeping my email address private. Use the "BCC" field, thats why it's there. Since we all know those other jerks that need help in their email etiquette as well, are gonna grab my email and everyone else's on that list and start mailing us about their stupid events too.

woah, sorry about that.

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(well shit, I just realized I can't use this anytime soon or people will know where it came from)

Letterpress Chocolates

Spell with em, then eat em.
http://typolade.de/

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Most adorable organizer tabs ever.

As usual I came across something awesome on swissmiss today. (go figure)
The world's most adorable Tab Organizers. Too bad you have to order em from Korea, get em here.

iPhone cupcakes

Came across these on Core77 and they made me smile.

Animal Alphabet Matchboxes

Fosforos Del Pirineo - Abcdario Animal (Animal Alphabet) Spain 1970s?

Found over at grain edit, super cool matchbox covers designed by Cruz Novillo + Olmos. The matchboxes feature an illustration of an animal for each letter of the alphabet. These are so unbelievably cool! The B, the blue Buho, (the owl) is totally my fav, of course. Whats your fav?