Winner Announced!

Thanks everyone for submitted those great suggestions! The winner is Vikki Gutierrez! Vikki, just contact us at info@girlofallwork.com, and we'll start the process of getting your goodies to you right away. Another give-away is in the works (maybe in time for the holiday season, so for those of you who didn't win this time, there's another chance to win). Hope you enjoy the rest of the weekend everyone.

Spotlight: Our 1st Product Giveaway!

It's not unusual when I get suggestions on how to expand the Girl Of All Work line, and I love it! It's fun sitting on a plane, waiting at the doctor's office, catching up with friends and hearing the familiar refrain: "Oh my gosh! Can you make __________? The ones I use at work are so ugly."So, I'm opening it up to everyone out there. Tell me what you want to see! Just post a comment and give me your opinion. A winner will be chosen at random to receive $50 worth of Girl Of All Work stationery, to be delivered in August. Just in time for back-to-school. Uh...friends and family are unfortunately excluded, but I suppose you know where to find me for GOAW goodies anyway! Good luck everyone.

Spotlight: The National Stationery Show

Whew! It's been a grueling couple of weeks. I've been developing some serious arm muscles gearing up for the National Stationery Show. In case some of you guys don't know exactly what it is, think of it as a fashion show for stationery. A throng of buyers, manufacturers, vendors, and even press converge at the Javits Center in NYC, and before you know it, you'll see fall season's stationery at your local paper store.
Girl Of All Work will definitely be unveiling new products there, and they'll be up on our website once we catch our breath from the show. Sign up for our mailing list to get an early bird heads up. Have a great weekend!

Spotlight: Beauty in Motion

I admit it. I'm a bit of Olympics junkie. Sitting in front of the television while sketching out my fall collection has been a bit of an evening ritual these past couple of weeks. And, of course, I always pay attention to the team uniforms. I was so distracted by team Netherlands' beautiful bobsled and speed skating uniforms, that it didn't matter to me who had won both their events that evening. To me, they just looked like winners. Great colors, clean, streamlined graphics. Timeless appeal. Hand them a gold medal!

Spotlight: Frank Macchia

Last night my significant other and I spent a fantastic evening at Studio City listening to Frank Macchia and an incredible array of top-notch, Los Angeles musicians playing highlights from his newly released CD Folk Songs for Jazzers. Familiar folk songs like "Oh, Susanna" and "I've Been Working on the Railroad" were re-visioned and given such new life and complexity that I was completely awestruck by the results. It was just such a treat to listen and watch the musicians play with such masterful enthusiasm, and I was blown away by guest vocalist Ellis Hall, who generously gifted everyone in that audience with a superb performance. What a wonderful way to end a Monday...

Spotlight: We're in the Press!

If you're a regular reader, you've probably noticed a drop off in blog posts. That's because our studio has been pretty busy with filling holiday orders and designing new products for next season. It's been craaaaaazy! But in the middle of all this, we've had some pretty cool things happen around here. Both our chef set page flags and our chapter journals have recently caught the media's attention. We're excited to have the flags in both Instyle and Rachel Ray Online and the chapter journals in Lucky Magazine. Okay, back to work!

Spotlight: Monster Drawing Rally!

To be held this Sunday (November 8) from 2-7pm in my neck of the woods: Eagle Rock, CA! Some pretty cool artists will be drawing simultaneously in 1 hour shifts to live music and selling their creations for $75. Proceeds go to support Outpost for Contemporary Art, a non-profit organization designed to bring artists and communities together. I'm looking forward to catching Ruby Osorio at the venue along with a whole roster of L.A. artists, whose credentials are far from shabby. Admission is a $10 donation. Click here for more info.

(clockwise starting from left: detail of artwork from Sarejo Freiden, Ruby Osorio, and Fumiko Amano)

Spotlight: Calling All Dawns Album

It's nice to flex my non-stationery design muscles every now, and in this case, it came in the form of a CD design for composer Christopher Tin's Calling All Dawns, a beautiful album that defies a genre classification but would likely be categorized as "world music." It consists of 12 songs/ 12 languages / 3 parts (day, night, dawn). With such Grammy nominees and winners like Frederica con Stade and the Soweto Gospel Choir gracing this album, it's a deeply moving listening experience. Below is the cover art and some miniaturized versions of the layouts I designed for the album. And yes, I did use Stefan Hattenbach's typeface Delicato for the text. Album becomes available today!