Loving: Maps, maps, maps

I don't know what it is--their graph-y nature, their visual organization, their simplicity--but I could stare at maps for hours (really--run into me on a subway platform, and you may just find me staring at the MTA map...even though I've been riding the subway for nine years now!). I have two framed in my little home (one of Brooklyn, seen below, and an antique map I found of London at a flea market in London under the Waterloo bridge) and am always looking for more.

Brooklyn poster, $37, orkposters.com

Paris Beach Tote, $35, mapetote.com

The Journey Journal, $12, Cracked Designs

Massimo Vignelli's 1972 NYC subway map, $30, transitmuseumstore.com

Map mail set, $12, lovelydesign.com

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Good for Me: Mast Brothers Chocolate

I think chocolate is good for your heart.  And I don’t mean that based on some fancy medical research. I just mean when your heart needs a little love (like mine does right now), chocolate can do it for you every time—especially if it’s wrapped in good-lookin’ packages like these from Mast Brothers Chocolate, which I am seeing everywhere these days. Sigh: the heavy paper stock…the color…the nod to weird 70s and 80s wallpapers…the chocolatey-ness.  Makes me smile.  And hungry.

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