A Master of Her Brand

Everyone seems to be talk­ing about the new Kate Spade col­lec­tion right now. And as much as I love the clothes and acces­sories, I’m more impressed by the most recent iter­a­tion of the brand. It’s a dif­fi­cult task to con­tin­u­ally evolve your look and user expe­ri­ence while still remain­ing true to — or, even bet­ter, fur­ther strength­en­ing — your brand. I’ve seen very few com­pa­nies pull it off, but Kate Spade some­how gets it right every time.

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T Magazine Well Openers

In cel­e­bra­ton of their upcom­ing five year anniver­sary, T Magazine is tak­ing a look back at their famous artist and designer-commissioned T inter­pre­ta­tions. Each issue, con­tem­po­rary cre­ative peo­ple have had the oppor­tu­nity to rein­ter­pret the New York Times T for the well opener, which is the intro­duc­tory page to the publication’s advertising-free sec­tion of con­tent. (You can read more about the his­tory here.)

Here are a few of my per­sonal favorites (although it was extremely dif­fi­cult to choose only o few), but check out the entire set of them right here.

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Color Happy 46

Color Happy 46

I’m try­ing to hold onto every last drop of the sum­mer that we have left. So I was par­tic­u­larly drawn to this pho­to­graph by abby trys again, which — for me — encap­su­lates all the col­ors of a fresh, warm and breezy sum­mer day.