A standard-bearer of American design since 1993, House Industries answers the burning question, “Where do you find inspiration?” with this illustrative collection of helpful lessons, stories, and case studies that demonstrate how to transform obsessive curiosity into personally satisfying and successful work. Presented in House’s honest, authentic, and often irreverent style, and covering topics ranging from fonts and fashion to ceramics and space technology, this beautifully useful 400–page volume offers a personal perspective on the origin of ideas for creative people in any field. Most important, this book shows that there’s no sense in waiting for inspiration because inspiration is already waiting for you.

Learn the history and techniques of hand lettering from a renowned design studio. This practical and visual guide features exercises, case studies, and typographic models for letter styles such as serif, sans serif, brush, and script.

A beautiful yet practical journal for creative inspiration and expressionPerfect for note taking, sketching, and journaling, this smart and stylish cloth-bound notebook features:•   A metallic copper silkscreened cover with a typographic design•   Illustrated end pages•   Smooth, high-quality dot paper

A must-have tool for visual thinkersPerfect for your active lettering lifestyle, this drawing pad from the celebrated design studio features:•   40 sheets of high-quality sketch paper•   A useful primer on illustration and hand-lettering•   An extra-thick backboard for sketching on the go.

A must-have tool for visual thinkersThis tracing pad from the celebrated design studio House Industries features: 8.5" x 11" 40 sheets of high-quality tracing paper A useful primer on illustration and hand-lettering An extra-thick backboard for sketching on the go

A must-have tool for visual thinkersPerfect for your active lettering lifestyle, this drawing pad from the celebrated design studio features:•   40 sheets of high-quality graph paper•   A useful primer on illustration and hand-lettering•   An extra-thick backboard for sketching on the go.

Whether for Valentine’s Day or any day, these luxurious, rose gold and gold foil-stamped note cards feature twelve translations of love in all different fonts, proving that this emotion truly is a universal language. Blank on the inside with phonetic spellings of the translations and packaged in a beautiful keepsake box, each of these twelve cards is a unique way to tell someone you care.These note cards feature love translated in English, Hebrew, French, Swedish, German, Arabic, Greek, Spanish, Bengali, Russian, Japanese, and Korean.