The benefit of slow times is they make us try new things. At the end of January it was a slow time in our studio, and we certainly don’t like to sit with idle hands. We had this blog started in 2008 but due to low content we were only seeing a trickle of 50 or so daily visitors. With a camera in hand, I started writing nearly every day here on beastpieces.com showing our press work in detail and talking about our production process. We never imagined the response. Six weeks later it has become part of our daily routine and a great extension of our studio to the design community. This week marks some sort of milestone for us – over 100,000 visits in the past six weeks. We’ve heard from so many designers and made many new friends.
We live and breathe great design and production. We’d like to thank some of the fine blogging folks and design sites that have taken notice of beastpieces.com recently. We enjoy these sites and invite you to take a visit:
Bad Ass Ideas – Blog of design, culture and typography
Black Eiffel – Blog of people, places, things, and ideas
Booooooom – Fostering a community of people excited to go out and be creative
Briar Press – A letterpress community
Card Observer – Business card design inspiration
CMYKern – Blog of simple clean design with good thought process
Designers Talk – Design community discussion board
Design Sponge – Daily website dedicated to home and product design
Draplin Design – Blog of damn good designers, makers of Field Notes
The Fleuron – The Britsh Journal of Typography and Design
FFFFound – Image bookmarking (will someone please invite me already!)
Grain Edit – Modern graphic design plus vintage graphics
Graphic Exchange – Amazing selection of graphic design projects
How Design Magazine – Top 10 websites for designers
I Love Typography – Bringing the subject of Typography to the masses
Image Spark – A new site for image collection and inspiration
Oh So Beautiful Paper – A celebration of all things paper
Qbn.com – A great design community discussion board
Quipsologies – Daily creative morsels for design awareness
Snippet And Ink – Daily wedding inspiration
Style Me Pretty – Blog for the style obsessed bride
Subtraction.com – Blog by Khoi Vinh – Design Director for the NYtimes.com
The Best Part – Daily commentary on all things design
Type Theory – A journal of contemporary typography
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So, thank you for visiting us. As we continue to post on beastpieces.com we’d love to hear from you. Is there something you’d like us to post about? Anything missing? What should we talk about more? Feel free to leave comments.
And of course we’d like to hear about your upcoming letterpress project and always appreciate estimate requests and the chance to work with new people. Reach us at numbers(at)studioonfire(dot)com with details about your project. Maybe it is perfect for the next post on beastpieces.com