Hello, Design Buddies. Here's issue #22 of Studio Notes—quick bits delivered to you each Friday.

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A London studio was vandalized, so the owners made a free font out of the sloppy graffiti. This is how to do revenge type! (via Secret Type Club member, Chris Perrins)

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Katie McKinstry Stylos takes used climbing rope and upcycles it into cool, colorful, outdoorsy art. What a neat use of something that's so storied and well-traveled.

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Brock Davis makes some stunningly simple photo art pieces. Clever and smile-inducing. The kind of content we need right about now. I'm always amazed by talented folks with a large following that offer no other info on their profile! Give me a URL to discover more :)

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When my kids were babies and toddlers, I played a lot of ukulele. It was light, easily accessible, and I could noodle while they were crawling around or on my lap. I used to make up little tunes on it, and last year I was playing one of those little tunes and my son Jack (now 19) said, "Did you write that? Can you send me a recording of it?". For Christmas, he gave me a song he produced that has my little uke sample in it (he makes beats and produces underground hip hop tracks). Today, he released an EP (with the uke sample on track 4). I am a proud dad. And don't sleep on the ukulele as an easy way to tinker with music around the house.

What are you working on?

I mentioned a new sticker vendor we landed on a while back and finally have these new decals in the shop. They're decals (and not stickers) because they're higher-quality and silkscreen printed with a split backing! Important stuff, folks. You can buy them individually, or grab the new Decal + Mystery Pack where you'll get all 4 decals plus some extra mystery merch that I'll throw in for free. Decals in 2025. Earth-shaking things are happening.

Have a restful weekend!

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