Design Womb Blog http://designwomb.com/ en nicole@designwomb.com Copyright 2012 Tue, 08 May 2012 23:24:40 GMT Vegan, Gluten-Free “Cheese” Sticks http://designwomb.com/blog/vegan-gluten-free-cheese-sticks/ http://designwomb.com/blog/vegan-gluten-free-cheese-sticks/

Baking Babycakes NYC Cheese Sticks from Nicole LaFave on Vimeo.

Nerdy little step video of my Babycakes NYC cheese stick experiment from this past February. The recipe is from BabyCakes Covers the Classics. They were delicious.

]]> food fling Tue, 08 May 2012 23:24 GMT Spring Forward http://designwomb.com/blog/spring-forward/ http://designwomb.com/blog/spring-forward/ I’ll be the first to admit I have been majorly slacking on my blog. (Sorry guys!) 2012 has started out with a bang, and with the bang came many new exciting branding projects & clients alongside some great news for some of the extended family. Beachy Cream should be opening its Wilshire shop in Los Angeles sometime in April, and I’ve also been busy helping Curry Up Now with their newly announced food family member The Dosa Republic. The eclectic Indian food brand is expected to open (food truck & restaurant doors) for April in the San Francisco Bay Area & San Mateo. 1148 Cosmetics opened in Chicago and I have some makeup packaging to share, and Lemonmade, Chicago (style & snips for kids) is gearing up to open doors sometime in May. San Francisco is welcoming Drawn to Scale, who recently announced their funding & soon-to-be Bay Area office. Outside of all these stops & shops, I’ve been busy hustling & bustling on a few websites to launch this spring. Think photography, organic frozen yogurt, IP Management software tools and more. One thing is for sure, there is never a lack of variety and challenge in my day-to-day.

The Design Womb website “makeover” is in progress, and I am attempting to wait patiently in order to have a nicer place to share all the new work that’s been coming together into the new year. As I take this GIGANTIC project in baby steps, I am looking forward to another photo shoot with Michelle Edmunds who has been helping me set up with some new photography for the site. We’ll also be announcing her new photography website launch in the coming month.

Among other news, I’ve been baking gluten-free & vegan goodies and look forward to sharing some of that discovery with you. I bought a Vitamix this week, and am so flipping excited to start making all sorts of stuff with it, I can barely contain myself. In the meantime, check out these raw pumpkin spice cookies (via rawmazing) that I came across this week. Pumpkin in spring? Heck yes!

More soon. (I hope!)

]]> news + accolades Wed, 21 Mar 2012 22:32 GMT Lemonmade Style & Snips for Kids http://designwomb.com/blog/lemonmade-coming-to-chicago/ http://designwomb.com/blog/lemonmade-coming-to-chicago/ We just wrapped up the logo and branding for Lemonmade. Those of you cool parents in Chicago with little ones, you want to watch for this one in spring of 2012. More to come.

]]> design & branding Little Ones new work Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:06 GMT Ice Cream Sandwich Packaging http://designwomb.com/blog/ice-cream-sandwich-packaging/ http://designwomb.com/blog/ice-cream-sandwich-packaging/ The Beachy Cream ice cream sandwich packaging sleeves have arrived. Inspired by fun in the sun, beach balls and polka dot bikinis, ice cream just got a whole lot more fun. These are going to make killer favors at parties & weddings. You can see more of the branding project for my client here or visit their site to order ice cream online.

]]> food fling design & branding new work Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:17 GMT Communication Arts Typography Annual 2 http://designwomb.com/blog/communication-arts-typography-annual-2/ http://designwomb.com/blog/communication-arts-typography-annual-2/ Thank you Communication Arts for selecting Design Womb’s Curry Up Now logo & truck  for this year’s Typography Annual. Winner! On stands now.

]]> design & branding news + accolades san francisco Tue, 17 Jan 2012 02:06 GMT Curry Up Now Truck + Wedding http://designwomb.com/blog/curryup-now-truck-wedding/ http://designwomb.com/blog/curryup-now-truck-wedding/ I got a fun little surprise email with a link to this wedding on snippet & ink for Sam & Alicia in San Francisco. The bride & groom had the Curry Up Now food truck that I designed at their event. More on the branding and truck design here. Congratulations Sam & Alicia!

]]> food fling design & branding san francisco Tue, 17 Jan 2012 01:22 GMT Knit FLOR http://designwomb.com/blog/knit-flor/ http://designwomb.com/blog/knit-flor/ I need to find a place for this awesome knit-inspired FLOR tile. Perfect for a laundry room or a play room rug?

]]> nest essentials product Wed, 04 Jan 2012 02:36 GMT Pamper the Pooch http://designwomb.com/blog/paper-the-pooch/ http://designwomb.com/blog/paper-the-pooch/ The Sweethoots shop has got to be one of the best shops on Etsy I have seen in awhile. If only that pug knew how many people were seeing these gorgeous modeling skills. If only I had a dog to put these on and take funny pictures. Oh boy. You would think I do. I wonder how weird that makes me and what my ratio of dog talk is compared to the average dog owner. I bet it’s not looking good for me.

]]> dogs favorite things pugtastic Sat, 31 Dec 2011 22:56 GMT Taste Patrol Olive Oil Packaging http://designwomb.com/blog/taste-patrol-olive-oil-packaging/ http://designwomb.com/blog/taste-patrol-olive-oil-packaging/ My new favorite aisle at the grocery store it the olive oil section. The packaging design lures me in. It’s hard to beat the wine area or chocolate bar area, but lately the olive oil market seems to be getting bigger and bigger. I would love to do more of this kind of work. Specialty food packaging = dream design projects to me. I felt pretty inspired to do some packaging design for a holiday gift this year and incorporate something I love looking at, helicopters! The result was California extra virgin olive oil, Taste Patrol Fine Foods & Findings by Design Womb. We’ll see where the chopper takes me next. I’ve mentioned this before. I love all the different shapes and sizes helicopters come in. Hoping to turn this project into a printmaking project in 2012 for helicopter prints. Keep you posted.

]]> food fling favorite things new work san francisco Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:40 GMT Linocut Pug http://designwomb.com/blog/linocut-pug/ http://designwomb.com/blog/linocut-pug/ I had the pleasure of attending a linocut printmaking class at 3 Fish Studios earlier in December with a friend. 3 Fish Studios is the artistic home of Annie Galvin and Eric Rewitzer, painters and printmakers, husband and wife, and creators of original and affordable art. They offer classes and original work for sale on their site, check it out. I had done printmaking in the past, but it had been years. Not only was the class great, but the studio space is so inspiring and Eric is the nicest and most patient instructor (Annie was sick that day, so I need to go back to meet her). I can’t wait to go back and rent some studio time. This has inspired me on a whole new level and I’ll be posting a very limited edition run of Bow Tie Pug Prints for sale on the Design Womb Etsy shop as soon as I can. If you are interested in reserving one, contact me. This is the start of my dog series, but of course I had to start with a black pug. Man, would I love to get one of these machines someday to have a small setup at my house, but for those of you that are like me in San Francisco, go check out a class.

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