Archive for June, 2008
« Previous EntriesA paper menagerie.
Friday, June 27th, 2008Continuing the animal theme are these sweet letterpress prints from Kirk and Eva Jorgensen‘s Ohio-based Sycamore Street Press, which only just started its printing press this year. Charming beasties hide behind and entwine themselves around the alphabet. Available at their etsy shop.
A plastic menagerie.
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008I like the innocent, timeless quality of these Elizabeth Soule polaroid prints. Her plastic animal figurines turn up in unexpected places – a city windowsill, lumbering across a map, or by a full-size cupcake. Visit her etsy shop for more.
Doodles on porcelain.
Monday, June 23rd, 2008Bailey Doesn’t Bark prints and paints these evocatively simple flowing lines onto paper, glassware, and porcelain. Take a look at the etsy shop – the sleeping birds are especially sweet.
“And yet for all that I still had never gotten used to the breathtaking impermanence of things.”
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008These photos of ice-carved letters from Kotama Bouabane (from the series Melting Words) are a beautifully plaintive reminder – when so many of our written words are captured and cached – that sometimes the most affecting words are fleeting.
Corporate identity.
Monday, June 16th, 2008Bored of your standard plain white card? You’re not the only one. The Wall Street Journal published an article a few months back about the mini-boom taking place in custom business cards as more and more people have them printed up for their blogs, side gigs, or just active social lives. Read through this article [...]
A sea of mustaches.
Saturday, June 14th, 2008Happy (almost) Father’s Day! Make your dad smile (it worked on me, anyway) with this silly card from Egg Press.
Contours and washes.
Friday, June 13th, 2008I’m liking the clean pen-and-ink, watercolor wash feel of these hand-printed cards from Chicago-based The Great Lakes. The shop just went up! Take a look, and visit the blog for updates.
PopMat.
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008Add a little scenery to the table with San Francisco-based Publique Living‘s PopMats, 100% recycled pop-out placemats that double as placecards.
Jen Gotch.
Monday, June 9th, 2008More ethereally beautiful Polaroid photography from prop designer Jen Gotch. Check out her blog and flickr for more. Via decor8.
A change of direction?
Monday, June 9th, 2008A post-it note drawing from Marc Johns. See more of his offbeat illustrations at his flickr stream.
Life is beautiful.
Friday, June 6th, 2008Armed with her vintage Polaroid camera, photographer Jennifer Altman finds beauty in the little things – a drained cup of cocoa, a half-dozen fresh eggs, a pile of dishes waiting to be washed, breakfast… The graininess and soft blur inherent in her Polaroid prints lend these shots a lush timelessness. Just gorgeous. For more from [...]
Keyboard shortcuts.
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008My life would be a lot more harrowing if it weren’t for keyboard shortcuts. During the workday I’m all about Excel shortcuts (Alt-E-S-V, anyone? – that’s “paste values” for the uninitiated), but while prepping a blog post in the evening, I switch over to Photoshop shortcuts, where my command key (that’s him above) gets all [...]
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