Things We Love

Our little sappy, stupid somewhat definitive list.

 
  1. Mom.
  2. Dad.
  3. Girlfriend Leigh.
  4. Little Sister Sarah.
  5. Little Sister Leah.
  6. Nephew Oliver James.
  7. Almost-Brother-in-Law Jacob.
  8. Ewan "Ewok" Martin.
  9. little Gary.
  10. Field Notes brand memo books.
  11. The gang at Coudal Partners.
  12. “Al” the Dodge panel van.
  13. “Red” the minivan.
  14. “Big S” the Passat wagon.
  15. Our 2014 Ford Econoline van.
  16. The DDC Factory Floor.
  17. A small Craftsman on NE 67th Avenue.
  18. Our backyard shop.
  19. The Open Road.
  20. Fall foliage.
  21. The month of Octobrrr.
  22. Cool summer nights.
  23. That flat Midwest.
  24. The wet Northwest.
  25. The arid Southwest.
  26. Making an honest living with design.
  27. Staying outta the red.
  28. Acoustic guitars.
  29. Electric guitars.
  30. Bass guitars.
  31. Walls of sound.
  32. Helvetica.
  33. Futura Bold.
  34. Trade Gothic.
  35. Lubalin Graph.
  36. Lego.
  37. Our "Extra Wide" Aeron chair.
  38. Bad wildlife art.
  39. Thick paper with a good tooth to it.
  40. My beat-up Carhartt jacket.
  41. Levi’s 501s.
  42. Saucony Jazz & Shadow 5000 kicks.
  43. Adventure People.
  44. A new pair of socks.
  45. Adobe Illustrator.
  46. Adobe Photoshop.
  47. Adobe InDesign.
  48. Adobe Bridge.
  49. Being straight with Uncle Sam.
  50. Being a good citizen/being a bad citizen.
  51. Standing up to shit that “isn’t right.”
  52. The stars in the summer night sky.
  53. A cold can of Coke.
  54. Vignelli oversize calendars.
  55. Compact discs.
  56. iTunes.
  57. iPhones, iPads & iPods.
  58. Apple products—essential and brilliant.
  59. My big wall of books.
  60. Corner rounders.
  61. Flat files.
  62. A disc on the player.
  63. A stack of records from the record store.
  64. Checks showing up in the mail.
  65. Midwestern accents.
  66. Girl hands.
  67. Hitting that “34” on the roulette wheel!
  68. Clean sheets.
  69. Down comforters.
  70. Cold water.
  71. Hot water.
  72. A hot shave.
  73. A tall glass of ice-cold water.
  74. Mom’s spaghetti.
  75. Dad’s “Killer pizza.”
  76. Club sandwiches.
  77. The Ideal Diner in Minneapolis.
  78. A hard day’s work.
  79. Untucked shirts.
  80. Autobiographical tattoos.
  81. Impko stickers.
  82. Cards of business.
  83. Spot UVs.
  84. Ikea’s accessibile design.
  85. Old postcards with “scalloped edges.”
  86. Just about everything Minneapolis.
  87. Route 66.
  88. Leaving Southern California.
  89. Schaedler rulers.
  90. Aluminum items.
  91. A vanilla milkshake.
  92. The goddamn Flaming Lips.
  93. Making lists.
  94. And checking everything off.
  95. Feeling “complete” after paying bills.
  96. Jackalopes.
  97. Bigfoot.
  98. Nessie.
  99. Skunk apes.
  100. Flying home to see Mom and Dad.
  101. Old Penguin psychology book covers.
  102. A Gary “twofer”: Pissin’ and shittin’.
  103. Ham radio cards.
  104. Bose speakers.
  105. Bose noise-canceling headphones.
  106. Rain squalls.
  107. Fall breezes.
  108. Spring rain showers in Portland.
  109. Mowing the grass.
  110. The color orange.
  111. Pantone Orange 021.
  112. Pantone books.
  113. One-inch rocker buttons.
  114. Those bridges of Madison County.
  115. Kentucky’s rolling hills.
  116. Appalachia.
  117. Universal icons.
  118. A western straightaway.
  119. Business loops off the highway.
  120. Neon “OFFICE” signs.
  121. Going home.
  122. Mom’s French toast.
  123. Dad’s vegetable beef soup.
  124. The hills of eastern Oregon.
  125. A full tank of gas.
  126. Flat-screen TVs.
  127. Dual monitors.
  128. Old dime stores filled with dead stock.
  129. Considered hierarchy in typography.
  130. Brick buildings.
  131. Shotgun houses in Louisville.
  132. A nice piece of Alaskan halibut.
  133. Uncle Ben’s wild rice.
  134. Chicken fried rice.
  135. Pad Kee Mao from Cha’ba Thai.
  136. Beans and rice, Dominican-style, off the J.
  137. Punjabi, late-night, on Houston in NYC.
  138. Water chestnuts.
  139. Baby corn.
  140. Green beans.
  141. Asparagus.
  142. Utah’s license plates.
  143. Moab.
  144. Those badlands of South Dakota.
  145. Gary gallops, hops and endos.
  146. Getting home after a long road trip.
  147. Writing things down.
  148. Practicing our penmanship.
  149. Harmonicas.
  150. That Dm7 chord.
  151. Pilot Butte.
  152. Old Santa Cruz skateboard stickers.
  153. Good grammar and punctuation.
  154. Apsco pencil sharpeners.
  155. Boxer shorts.
  156. Pesto.
  157. Old warehouse buildings.
  158. Dogs who lay on their sides.
  159. Bullet pencils.
  160. Old maps.
  161. Thunderbolt data copying speed.
  162. Dogs jumping from bed to bed in a hotel.
  163. Ford Econoline vans.
  164. Scandinavian flatware.
  165. ’70s textile wall art by Verner Panton.
  166. Logo books by Yasaburo Kuwayama.
  167. ’60s and ’70s political campaign buttons.
  168. Union pinbacks.
  169. Golden books.
  170. Golden guides.
  171. Having Marc Maron in the shop.
  172. Spaghetti Westerns.
  173. Volvo station wagon typography.
  174. Orange iPhone protective cases.
  175. Strawberries.
  176. Bananas.
  177. Oranges.
  178. Carl Sagan.
  179. Neil Degrasse-Tyson.
  180. Vinyl records.
  181. Stoughton record sleeves.
  182. Shrink-wrap stickers on a record.
  183. Etchings on a record.
  184. Record cover spines.
  185. 180-gram slabs of vinyl.
  186. American-made hammers.
  187. Anvils.
  188. Beating Nakamoto at dice.
  189. Gramma Josie’s big pancakes.
  190. Cholula hot sauce.
  191. Sriracha hot sauce.
  192. Going backstage at a show.
  193. A nicely detailed car cockpit.
  194. Chip clips.
  195. Chips.
  196. Pretzels.
  197. Peanuts.
  198. Thick lines.
  199. How big the universe is. In every direction.
  200. Our staggering insignificance in the universe.