Link About It: This Week’s Picks

Opening Ceremony's patchwork-bright Tumi bags, Olympic design, a blog devoted to letterpress and wood type, and more

1. Small Hand Foods All-natural Cocktail Mixers Made in small batches by Bay Area bartender Jennifer Colliau, Small Hand Foods produces flavorful cocktail mixers using only the highest quality organic and natural ingredients. Goodlifer details her process of producing the mixers, which sell online or can be enjoyed at some of San Francisco’s finest drinking establishments, like Alembic or Absinthe. 2. Director Sean Pecknold One …

End Grain

Opening Ceremony's patchwork-bright Tumi bags, Olympic design, a blog devoted to letterpress and wood type, and more

Started in August 2009, the excellent blog End Grain is dedicated to finding and aggregating the best examples of letterpress and wood type. The site also provides a helpful directory of links to letterpress-related shops on Etsy.

Galileo Telescope by Odoardo Fioravanti

Opening Ceremony's patchwork-bright Tumi bags, Olympic design, a blog devoted to letterpress and wood type, and more

To mark the 400th anniversary of Galilei’s first telescope, Odoardo Fioravanti designed a functional telescope. The elegant combination of high performance optical technologies inside a minimal pale wooden exterior makes this a timeless reinvention. via Yatzer