The Wonderful World of Hermes

When in need of inspiration, I travel through designers websites, sometimes ending up at Barneys New York and sometimes ending up at a french website for paper dolls. Today, I ended up at Hermes.

I've always loved that signature orange, and those classic stitches. But their website is actually FUN, and incredibly interesting. If you go to hermes.com , click on United States and go to the "travel the world of Hermes" button, you are off on an adventurous maze. There's games, do-it-yourselfs and intimate stories from customers who have an emotional attachment to their heirloom Hermes items.

Here is a fabulous do-it-yourself bracelet (there are 6 styles and you download the pdf pattern to cut and paste together):

This particular puzzle challenges you to create different shapes and designs:

And there are also touching, beautiful stories from customers:

Here are a few of the random illustrations that really inspired me:

And then, of course, there are the scarves. Here are a few of my favorites, but honestly, it's like trying to pick your favorite pair of diamond earrings from Tiffanys.

I'm not gonna write you a love song...

...cause I don't have any of these fabulous perfect fonts to write it in. If I could drop a hundred on a few of these fine ladies from Veer , I would in a heartbeat.

From top left, Compendium , Kewl Script , Adios Script , Riva , Adage Script

I've also been searching far and wide for this font in blueprint and Martha Stewart mags.

The name of it is "fling" and you can download it for free here , and it works, but I'm beginning to think that I've broken some sort of law!

I'm also looking for this beauty found at lonnymag.com . If you haven't read this online magazine yet, do it! It's beautiful and ...ta da!...FREE.