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Monday, September 29th, 2008Seriously sweet letterpressed cards, tags, and other items from Basak Notz’s San Francisco-based Small Square Design. I love the sketchy, doodly feel of these designs.
For more, check out the etsy shop or Basak’s blog, full of mistakes. Boston-area readers can find her products in-store at the Harvard Book Store - and I was [...]
The world in rice.
Monday, September 29th, 2008British theater company Stan’s Cafe is putting on a touring exhibition, Of All the People in All the World, which uses 112 tons of rice to illustrate all kinds of statistics - with one grain representing one person. (Thanks to Dave for telling me about it!) Take a look…
The United States population.
John F. [...]
A few cool prints.
Monday, September 29th, 2008From London design agency SampsonMay - Radius ‘09 (a radial 2009 calendar), Dirty Bird, and Use Two Hands. Though they work primarily on design projects for corporate clients, the people at SampsonMay spend their non-work hours on great art prints like these, among other things. Take a look at their online shop, Justgonesix.
Via [...]
Thuss Farrell.
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008Beautiful images from photography and design studio Thuss Farrell (duo Rebecca Thuss and Patrick Farrell). I love how lush these photos are in color, texture, and mood - even the pair of paper lunch bags.
Irresistibly absurd.
Monday, September 22nd, 2008It’s birthday season in my social circle and in the midst of all the attendant events, a friend introduced me to the Los Angeles stationer Fomato.
Unidentifiable bloblike creatures (that seem vaguely inspired by contemporary Japanese graphic design) prance through brightly-colored three-panel greeting cards, dispensing hilariously irrelevant how-tos and factoids - from how to be a [...]
Tabletop Baskerville.
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008Too cool… plywood coasters fashioned from carefully cut Baskerville letters, from New York design student acd. You can find these on Supermarket here (and a version in clear frosted acrylic here!).
Pancake & Franks.
Monday, September 15th, 2008Gorgeous contours and textures from Arizona-based Stacy Pancake’s Pancake & Franks, taking their inspiration from nature - things as simple as wood, garlic bulbs, and sea urchins don’t escape artistic notice here.
Toys.
Friday, September 12th, 2008Tap into your inner kid with these beautiful hand-sculpted wooden animals from Romp, made of made of pear, walnut, beech and other woods and finished with beeswax. So carefully and beautifully done…
Via elephantine.
Mareike Auer.
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008Love these prints from Austrian artist Mareike Auer, available at The Shiny Squirrel - all solid silhouettes in muted tones punctuated with bright pops of color. Her work is somehow simultaneously blithe and eerie. Below are Polka Pigs, The Bird’s Egg, The Bullheaded Men, and I am a Bird.
Some of her pieces have [...]
The abc’s.
Monday, September 8th, 2008Love this alphabet chart from The Small Object, created wholly from their line of rubber stamps. Goofy little creatures - from underdogs to dust bunnies to teeth - cavort in rows across the chart, illustrating their letters. Available in sepia and green.
A. Favorite Design.
Monday, September 8th, 2008Cheerfully simple letterpress cards from Chicago graphic designer turned letterpress artist a. favorite (a.k.a. Amber Favorite). Vintage signs, typewriters, and wood block type are among the themes that pop up frequently in her charming line.
Via happy cavalier.
First blog birthday!
Friday, September 5th, 2008For its birthday, I’m giving it… voilà! A second sidebar and thus, a little more room to grow.
Strictly speaking I started blogging in January of last year, but it wasn’t until early September that I wrote what I consider to be its first post as an art and design blog (making it a [...]