marietjie & her team at skermunkil have been churning out amazing stuff for the design indaba expo this weekend (from today the 26th till sunday the 28th). i’m so looking forward to seeing their stand (and perhaps making a sneaky purchase)
stéphane massa-bidal is a french illustrator & web designer who combines vintage imagery with thoughts & proverbs about life. he says, my global concept is called “retrofuturs”: mix the past, the present, the future and shake it! i especially like the car series.
via a cup of jo
these are cool & i want them on my wall. from an exhibition called if you could
Currently a senior designer and typographer at Grey in New York, Craig is perhaps best known under his pseudonym, ‘Words are Pictures’. As his self-dubbed moniker suggests, he’s a typography nut who is excited by the forms and shapes of letters. This intrigue allows him to transform standard words into fully-realised, artistic statements. Not content with just one partner, Craig drafted in the typographic expertise of Sean Freeman and Alison Carmichael to come up with what they have named ‘Calligraffiti’.
whilst perusing some back issues of frankie, i spotted these feltidermy pieces by girl savage. they made me smile.
i already have a bicycle (which i love – it’s a black & white cruiser with white tyres) but i just can’t help looking at bicycle sites. the latest one, which my brother sent me, is globe bicycles. there’s something about white/cream tyres that makes everything classier, non?
then i took a trip through my bookmarks (i have the most ridiculous folder called “things to buy” – full of things i could never actually afford to buy) and dug up this gem of a company
beautifully illustrated valentines cards by canadian design company vanguard works, under their paperie label pigeon post. based on the theme of undying love. inspired by myths, folklores & ancient stories from around the world.
labour & wait - i love the look of this shop, feels like a british version of muji.
via black eiffel
wow! i’ve never wanted to visit a butcher more, i tells ya. chop shop’s radical identity designed by ptarmak inc
the vamoose jewellery
kathryn blackmore, whose illustrations i have featured (previously known as fish bear), makes some wonderful little necklaces. i hope she stocks up her shop, soon.
the site is a waterfront property located on an island in the archipelago of stockholm. oaks and pines live in meagre soil between sculptural rocks that dominate the landscape. a large section of the site’s upper part is taken by a large oak aged over 500 years
oooms is a dutch design company that makes original, quirky & often hilarious products. “We design products, small or big, for ourselves and for others. We focus on high quality and originality.” i want all of these:
road kill carpet:
Do you know the feeling that you do not want to take a look at something, but you still do? The Road Kill carpet is a continued struggle between attraction and repulsion. It’s a warm, soft, cuddly carpet that attracts you to take a nap on it. But at the same time its a repulsive image of a car-flattened,… Read the rest
one of the many reasons i love creative people is because they have the best & most original gift ideas. erin jang says,
My husband loves good root beer. For his birthday I bought a vintage soda crate and filled it with 24 different kinds of root beer and made a cheat sheet of each brew’s flavor based on some root-beer fanatics’ reviews that I found online. The husband loved the gift and I made him promise to me that he would ration out the sodas over a very. long. period. of. time.
also be sure… Read the rest
i’ve been holding out on posting about jessica hische’s daily drop cap project, but as she recently updated her website i thought it was fitting.
Daily Drop Cap is a project I started in September of 2009 in which I illustrate a decorative letter every day (or at least every work day). The project will continue for approximately twelve alphabets and are available for non-commercial use as drop caps on your personal blog.
she really is an exceptional typographer (and illustrator and designer). ok i can’t resist, here’s some more:
hello, my name is diana.
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fog linen work
love the goods from fog linen work