A Huge thanks to the Penguin Group for sponsoring this week’s RSS Feed!

Tired of staring at a blank canvas? Need some inspiration? From acclaimed artist Keri Smith, Wreck This Journal encourages you to engage in “destructive” acts—poking holes in the page, making an ugly drawing, painting pages with coffee, and more—in order to engage more fully in the creative process. A new expanded edition of Wreck This Journal is available now, featuring 32 additional pages and four different covers to choose from. Check them out here! And from now through September 7, get a 15% discount on any and all of Keri Smith’s books by visiting us.penguingroup.com and entering the promo code GRAINEDIT at checkout.

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A Huge thanks to squarespace for sponsoring this week’s RSS Feed!

Design a visually rich website with magazine-quality layouts that scales to any screen size – all without touching a line of code. Squarespace 6 is a revolutionary new website creation platform with over 50 new features. Squarespace’s breakthrough LayoutEngine technology allows anyone to create magazine-quality layouts within the browser that responsively scale to any screen size, from mobile devices to desktops. The platform comes equipped with 20 new, fully customizable templates and offers sophisticated media management, robust blogging engine, deep social network integration, real-time statistics, multiple author support, and more. For a free trial, visit www.squarespace.com.

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A Huge thanks to squarespace for sponsoring this week’s RSS Feed!

Design a visually rich website with magazine-quality layouts that scales to any screen size – all without touching a line of code. Squarespace 6 is a revolutionary new website creation platform with over 50 new features. Squarespace’s breakthrough LayoutEngine technology allows anyone to create magazine-quality layouts within the browser that responsively scale to any screen size, from mobile devices to desktops. The platform comes equipped with 20 new, fully customizable templates and offers sophisticated media management, robust blogging engine, deep social network integration, real-time statistics, multiple author support, and more. For a free trial, visit www.squarespace.com.

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A Huge thanks to WMC Fest for sponsoring this week’s RSS Feed!

Now in its third year, the Weapons of Mass Creation Fest is a must-attend event for creatives in the Midwest. Its goal is to inspire and enable the creative mind and will feature 20 speakers, 20 designers, and nearly 30 bands over the weekend of June 8-10, 2012. Put on by the Cleveland-based creative agency Go Media and an army of volunteers, WMC Fest has a homegrown, indie vibe that sets it apart from other national-caliber creative conferences. It’s also a great value, with 3-Day All-Access passes starting at only $60! So come to WMC Fest to network, collaborate, get inspired, learn new tricks, and meet new friends! You can’t miss it! This year’s speakers include Johnny Cupcakes, Austin Kleon, Kate Bingaman Burt, and the Friends of Type. From now through May 21, enjoy 20% off on fest tickets by using promo code “grainedit” at checkout.

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Week-long exclusive sponsorships of the Grain Edit RSS feed are now available.

The sponsorship price is $350 and includes the following:

• The ability to promote your product to Grain Edit’s estimated 38,000+ RSS Readers, 25,000+ Twitter Followers, 12,800+ Facebook fans and close to 200,000 monthly site visitors.
• Exclusive week-long sponsorship.
• A promotional post at the start of the week that links back to your website or product page. Since it’s a sponsored post and not an ad, it will be viewable by our on-site readers as well those who subscribe to our RSS, Twitter and Facebook feeds.
• The promo will be added to sponsor category and reside permanently in our archives.

Grain Edit has received press mentions in the Guardian UK, Apartment Therapy, Design Sponge, Dwell online, Flavorpill, Josh Spear and was named #16 in the London Times top 50 of the world’s best design blogs.

To schedule an exclusive sponsorship/see available dates, please visit our sponsors page.

To our readers:
We know some of you will be unhappy with this decision, but in order to keep up with site costs and fund future projects we hope you understand. We’ll try to keep the posts as unobtrusive as possible and limit them to once a week. It won’t be all bad, some exciting things will transpire out of this including contests and ticket giveaways to really great design conferences.

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A Huge thanks to UPrinting for sponsoring this week’s RSS Feed!

UPrinting is a leading socially responsible online printing company. They’ve been online since 2000 and serve thousands with on-demand printing and a robust yet simple and easy-to-use online ordering system. UPrinting offers a wide variety of products from business cards, brochures, envelopes, greeting cards, posters, canvas prints and much more. They are specifically proud of their high-quality and eco-friendly prints which use recycled paper types and vegetable/soy-based inks with lower levels of VOCs than traditional petroleum-based inks. This helps to reduce harmful carbon emissions.

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A Huge thanks to Mag+ for sponsoring this week’s RSS Feed!

Designers! If you know InDesign, you can publish to the iPad or Android tablet…without a programmer. Mag+ is the brains behind the InDesign plug-in that lets you design and publish your app with no coding. From now until June 1, 2012, Mag+ is hosting Magnify Your World – a contest to show off your tablet app with the chance to win up to $6,000USD. There are six categories judged by design leaders and a People’s Choice Award. Did I mention it’s free to enter? Go here for more details.

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