Johanna Basford, scottish illustrator ‘and ink evangelist who prefers pens and pencils to pixels’. Rather lovely work on her site. Pics and words from her site.
Filed under: Design, Illustration, illustration, johanna basford
October 17, 2011 • 10:00 pm 1
Stay hungry, stay foolish
Steve Jobs’ Commencement address delivered to Stanford University on 12 June 2005. A wonderful speech, so much insight and learning.
Thank you Heather for sharing on your site.
Filed under: Podcast / Seminars, Reference, speech, steve jobs
October 17, 2011 • 8:48 pm 2
Animal note cards – Melanie Kimmett
Cards by Melanie Kimmett, (a fab designer from Vancouver with a fab blog).
You can buy them via Etsy‘s shop.
“A happy maker of cute paperie things here in Vancouver, Canada. I’m heavily influenced by clean, modern design and illustration but take many inspired cues from the quirky urban world around me. Every one of my greeting cards are printed on 100% recycled, FSC-certified paper.”
Words from the Etsy site, pics from Melanie Kimmett.
Filed under: Design, Graphic, Illustration, Shop, cards, design, Etsy, illustration, mélanie Kimmett
October 17, 2011 • 8:32 pm 0
Poppytalk
A wonderful blog called Poppytalk. Found via the wonderful Melanie Kimmett.
“Poppytalk is a Canadian (Vancouver-based) design blog collecting inspiration and dedicated to promoting emerging design talent” founded and run by husband and wife Jan and Earl.
They also run an “online street market (Poppytalk Handmade) to showcase, buy and sell handmade goods of emerging design talent from around the world.” Words and pic from Poppytalk.
Filed under: Blogs, Design, Graphic, Reference, Shop, blog, design, Poppytalk
October 4, 2011 • 4:22 am 0
Samantha Hahn
Seen via the fab What Makes Us
Samantha Hahn, illustrator out of Brooklyn NYC. Too tired to write a full para but she also has a blog which has got some great work with new work, thoughts and links (kind of like a blog really!). Pics taken from What Makes Us and Samatha Hahn. Samatha’s blog
Filed under: Blogs, Illustration, Reference, blog, illustration, samantha hahn
September 25, 2011 • 11:29 pm 1
Mazzy Star – Into Dust
Seen the Gears of War ads on tv, the ad visual (although awesome graphics) are just the run of the mill design solution of showing the in game graphics but the soundtrack to these ads are amazing.
Filed under: Music, mazzy star
September 25, 2011 • 10:16 pm 1
Cavalier Essentials – Taylor Pemberton
Seen via the wonderful Graphic Exchange.
Cavalier Essentials is a line of vintage products designed for the rugged, yet sophisticated gentleman. Cavalier was always briefly explained as–“If Steve McQueen carried a beat-up leather duffle bag on the back of his motorcycle; what would be in it and how would the products look?” This simple idea married an appreciation for lifestyle design and vintage accessories. All of the products possess a hand-made quality while responding to the modern influences of today’s culture. Words and pics via Graphic Exchange and Cavalier Essentials.
Designed, directed and produced by Taylor Pemberton – designer from Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Filed under: Design, Graphic, branding, design, identity, Taylor Pemberton
September 15, 2011 • 10:07 am 0
Friends – I’m His Girl
Released on Lucky Number Music on 31 October 2011, to order I’m His Girl
Heard via Zane Lowe’s R1 show.
July 15, 2011 • 3:59 pm 0
We Are What We Do
Designed by We Are What We Do – really bright, interesting, upbeat stationary. Diaries £5 and pencils £6.
“Our Action Pencils are part of our Action Stationery range – a collection of notebooks, diaries, bookmarks and pencils that all feature “Actions”, ideas of small good things to do. The 6 pencil set features a range of relavent Actions including Write to someone who inspired you, Use both sides of every sheet of paper and Don’t worry if you make a mistake (which is the only pencil in the set to have an eraser on the end). The entire stationery range is printed with soya-based inks on FSC paper, is shipped (not flown) from our responsible printers in Singapore and all profits go the We Are What We Do, funding school and community education projects.” Buy them from their shop.
First seen via the amazing Mélanie Kimmett blog
Words and pics Lovely Stationary’s blog
Filed under: Design, Shop, diary, Lovely Stationary, pencils, stationary, We Are What We Do
July 14, 2011 • 9:43 pm 1
Tricky – Time to Dance (Maya Jane Coles Remix)
First music post – brought to my attention via Rob Da Bank twitter feed. Amazing remix.
Filed under: Music, maya jane coles, music, rob da bank, sound, tricky
The year I discovered Sagmeister 