Archive for October, 2007
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007Cleverly carved by friends and Halloween dinnermates Stef and Schnall.
Paper stockings!
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007I know it’s not Christmas season yet, but it’s frigid in Boston so my thoughts naturally tend towards tinsel, twinkling lights, and… packaging gifts, one of my favorite rituals. One approach I like is to tuck several small gifts in a stocking, so I was excited to find these beautiful paper stockings by Alex Wijnen’s [...]
Fifi Lapin.
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007Oh. My. God. Fifi Lapin is a very stylish bunny and this is what she has to say about herself in her blog: Hi, I’m Fifi. Fifi Lapin. I was born one of 257 brothers and sisters but sadly there was an outbreak of myxamatosis when I was one year old and I was the [...]
Nantaka Joy.
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007Oh joy! Joy’s shop is finally live.
Shinzi Katoh.
Monday, October 29th, 2007Sweet, childlike designs from Japanese artist Shinzi Katoh. I especially like these fabrics, but his illustrations also appear on bags, bowls, bottles, and more. Via the lovely Black Eiffel!
A typographic menagerie.
Monday, October 29th, 2007For a fun five-minute diversion, check out the web version of Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich’s children’s book, Bembo’s Zoo. A whole lineup of animals are cleverly formed out of the characters of serif font Bembo, complete with sound effects and quirky animation. Below are the hippo, ibis, and octopus.
We interrupt our regularly scheduled broadcast to say…
Friday, October 26th, 2007…Go Sox! It makes me smile to see this view when I turn onto my street after work. Image source: left, right.
A birthday lotus.
Friday, October 26th, 2007Voilà – a birthday card for you to download and print. The front features a sparkling lotus plant with a tiny party-hatted elephant hanging out atop the seed pod. Write your message, slide the card into the matching envelope, and drop in the mail. Click for full views of the card and envelope. You’ll need: [...]
I’ll have a large coffee with a spoonful of snark.
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007Oh! If only Starbucks had cup designs this droll. See more of Jim Smith’s designs for Puccino’s (a coffee shop chain in the UK) on Flickr, with captions like “i was so happy when i saw this all printed up. but then i remembered that one day i would die and i was sad again.” [...]
Peeking in sketchbooks.
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007While complete works of art are beautiful, I often enjoy unfinished sketches and studies even more. They always look so fresh, and it’s kind of instructive to get a peek at the development of a finished piece. So, I’m very excited about the artist sketchbook series on Julia Rothman’s blog, Book By Its Cover. A [...]
Monsters!
Monday, October 22nd, 2007With the end of October fast approaching, it’s a good time to check out Halloween-themed goodies (and I don’t mean dark chocolate Milky Way mini-bars, though I do like those). Take a look at a fun collection of zombie- and vampire-inspired (thanks Liana!) items over at Mixed Plate. Cute and creepy! My favorites are Tina [...]
An avian roundup.
Monday, October 22nd, 2007Bird motifs appear frequently in illustrations and stationery designs that I’m seeing lately. According to the University of Michigan Dictionary of Symbolism, birds usually have positive symbolic meaning, often representing “the human desire to escape gravity [or] the disembodied human soul, free of its physical constrictions”. As I’m pretty partial to them, here is a [...]
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