Kate Proulx for Faux-Beau » Inspiration

Earl Kallemeyn

Kathryn Proulx — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:11:28 +0000

I’ve posted about Earl Kallemeyn long long ago when he was my letterpress teacher… now there’s a video about him on NY Times! Super cool dude, wish I had kept in touch.

Inspiration Folder: Garment Racks

Kathryn Proulx — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:04:18 +0000

Sorry for the disappearance! I just moved into a new apartment with my beau so this week’s inspiration folder is dedicated to garment racks (because I want one!)

Inspiration Folder: Design – Part 2

Kathryn Proulx — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:47:24 +0000

Buy Nothing Day by AdBusters

Hand Done SVA Poster by Cardon Webb

Shine Advertising Letterpress Business Card

Lovejoy Vodka designed by Jared Milam

Futu Mag

By Denis Kuchta

Type by Colin Matsui

Marian Bantjes‘ Business Card

by Always With Honor

Inspiration Folder: Design – Part 1

Kathryn Proulx — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:45:16 +0000

Inspiration: Underwater Photographs

Kathryn Proulx — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:00:57 +0000

Inspiration Folder: How To Organize Your Non-Digital Inspiration

Inspiration Folder: Skulls

Kathryn Proulx — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:41:04 +0000

Inspiration Folder: Home Sweet Home

Kathryn Proulx — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 03:20:24 +0000

Inspiration Folder: Girls, Girls, Girls!

Kathryn Proulx — Wed, 27 May 2009 12:34:00 +0000

Due to reaching the limit on my flickr, I’ve decided to change up the format for Inspiration Folder posts from now on! They will still have a theme, but they wont be a collage and the photos will be hosted on my server instead of flickr. Onward:

Scott Campbell: Salvation

Kathryn Proulx — Sat, 02 May 2009 03:09:14 +0000

Laser-cut stacks of dollar bills by tattoo artist, Scott Campbell. I remember seeing these on The Selby. There are (presumable) tests of these hanging up in the background in his apartment/shop.

Via: designboom

Inspiration Folder: How To Organize Your Non-Digital Inspiration

Kathryn Proulx — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:49:08 +0000

If you, like me, amass a collection of inspiration outside of your harddrive you may be interested in my method of keeping those magazine pages, photo stories, and drawings more organized.

You’ll Need:

3-ring Binder (I use a 3-inch one for more space and durability)
3-ring Sheet Protectors
Sticker Labels or Index Dividers
Magazines
Metal Ruler
Olfa Knife or Scissors
Cutting Mat (if you decide to go the Olfa Knife route)
Optional: Paint Thinner

Start by tearing out whichever sheets you want to keep from the magazine. Something I learned from putting together contest entries at my W Magazine internship: a few drips of paint thinner in the spine of the mag will loosen the adhesive used to bind it, the pages will come out super clean and it will dry perfectly/without any ripples.

If the pages are too big for an 8.5 x 11 sheet protector (W Magazine and Nylon are both too big!) use the metal ruler and olfa knife to make nice, clean edges (or you can use a pair of scissors).

I sort all of my pages into these categories before putting them into the sheet protectors:

Ads
Art
Beauty
Clothes/Accessories
Covers
Design
Interiors
”It Girls” – Models, Celebrities, Socialites, Designers I like
Stuff to DIY
Textual Content

After they are all in protectors, and still kept in their different categories I put them into the 3-ring binder. I used to use index dividers:

But I found that they dont stick out past the sheet protectors. To solve this I made DIY tabs on the sheet protectors themselves using 2 sticker labels stuck together:

(I use this same method to tab important notes in my Moleskine that I want to find again later)

It was quite a task to take all the stuff I had collected in boxes and put them into one binder but I’m glad I did. Now it’s a lot easier to find what I’m looking for, it’s easy for other people to look through, and everything stays neat.

How do you keep your inspiration together?