Daily Dishonesty: The Beautiful Little Lies We Tell Ourselves Every Day

by Lauren Hom

Overview

A colorful compendium of little white lies, based on the award-winning, “bitingly honest” blog (Imprint).
 
From the diet you’re going to start tomorrow to that call you were about to make when something (anything) else came up—life is full of little lies that get us through the day. With Daily Dishonesty, designer and blogger Lauren Hom pays homage to the (mostly) innocent foibles that make us human.
 
With 150+ hilariously common lies, beautifully illustrated by Hom, Daily Dishonesty touches on topics from breakups, friendship, and growing up to slacking off and guilty pleasures, in hand-lettered mantras that are all too honest about our untruths.
 
Praise for the Daily Dishonesty blog
 
“Simply wonderful!” —SwissMiss
 
“Cleverly and adorably displays lies.” —Complex Magazine
 
“Really inspiring for those of you who want to dabble in hand lettering.” —Miss Moss

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781613127186
Publisher:	ABRAMS, Inc.
Publication date:	03/01/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	96
File size:	10 MB
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

Lauren Hom is a graphic designer from Southern California. She graduated from the School of Visual Arts with a BFA in design and advertising. Her clients include YouTube and Simon and Schuster, among others. Hom’s work has been featured in Imprint and Complex Magazine, and exhibited at the Art Director’s Club in New York and Design the Future 2012 in Milan.

Read an Excerpt

INTRODUCTION

October 9th, 2012 was a typical Tuesday night in my cozy East Village apartment: two bottles of wine (white for me, red for my roommate, Sophie), an assortment of cheeses, and two friends huddled around the kitchen table. Sophie and I were both beginning of our senior year at the School of Visual Arts, and between sips (and occasional gulps) of wine, our conversation turned — as it so often did — to the busy year ahead of us. Of course we talked about school, but we also talked about all the things we wanted to do in our spare time. "I'm going to brew my own beer," she said. "I want to go to yoga every day and learn how to make croissants," I replied, getting into the spirit of things. Suddenly, we looked at each other and burst out laughing. We realized we were both lying — neither of us actually had any free time! We were only one month into the school year, and we were already drowning in homework and design projects. These were just tiny, silly dreams that helped distract us and get us through the busy mazes of our lives.

As we giggled some more and polished off the cheese, I felt a lightbulb go off in my head. That night, I wrote down a dozen other small lies I regularly told myself, and then I started drawing. The next day, Daily Dishonesty was born. As you read through this little book of lies, I hope that you're as guilty as we were, and that you can share a laugh about life's small (and sometimes large) trials and tribulations!

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