Our little side project, Dolls for Friends, has just announced details for our first giveaway for our Twitter followers. We will be sending out a free piece to some lucky re-tweeter this Friday, June 19. You can see the complete details of the giveaway on the project’s site.

I love it when lightning strikes twice, and this month it has been in the form of positive press for our studio, eljl. Earlier this week I did a short interview for an article on creative business cards and promotion for Smashing Magazine. The piece, Business Card Design: Better Than A Plain Ol’ Business Card, was published today, and it turned out great. There was some nice direct quotes and a second link to our sister project, Dolls for Friends. Thanks goes to Kat Neville for including us and Smashing Magazine for publishing this great informational piece.

I was so excited when I got back from An Event Apart today and saw that our studio, eljl, got a nod from Helvetica Awards for our “I’ll use Arial when Helvetica freezes over” stickers. 

Since we started sending them out as promotional items we’ve had response from literally all over the world. I never thought when we printed them up that we would have the response we’ve had. We’ll actually be doing a reprint of them in the future and adding a white text on black version of the sticker.

If you’re interested in getting your hands on a couple of them for yourself, just send drop me a quick line on the contact page, and I will tell you where to send the SASE.

Love Helvetica, it will make you a better person.