Tag Archives: Illustration

Partners for Change poster series by Max Erdenberger

August 4, 2008 – 7:12 pm

Max Erdengerger has designed a really nice looking set of posters to promote environmentalism. The profit he makes from selling the posters will be used in some way to offset the carbon emissions from resulting from moving his family across the country. I love the simple compositions and the graphic illustration style. [...]

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Flip book calendar of tree losing leaves

July 29, 2008 – 5:23 pm

This calendar booklet contains a lovely flip book animation of a tree losing its leaves. It’s a nice and simple vector illustration and the type work on the cover is beautiful as well. It was designed by Tomato Kosir, who has a lot more fantastic design work in his portfolio.

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Quality design work by the young greysheepduo

July 24, 2008 – 12:00 pm

Digital artist and graphic designer “greysheepduo” is putting out some interesting and quality design work. The incredible part is that it appears that he’s still in high school! I can’t wait to see what he comes up with in the future. Check out his design collection on Flickr.

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Detailed patterns in line drawings by Pedro Lucena

July 23, 2008 – 11:00 am

Pedro Lucena creates some beautiful line drawings full of intricate detail and patterns. Be sure to click on the tree image above to see a larger version for the full detail, it’s worth it. Check out his sets on Flickr for more work.

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Kite themed prints from Lab Partners

July 7, 2008 – 5:50 pm

I had a chance to fly a kite with my future wife this weekend and it was such a fun memory to make with her. I just noticed that Lab Partners is giving away a whole set of kite themed Gocco prints (click the link for details). All you have to do to [...]

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I Want to be a Coal Miner - Vintage children’s book

June 17, 2008 – 9:24 pm

I saw this vintage children’s book at a thrift store called, I Want to be a Coal Miner. I thought that was a strange aspiration for a child and I had to thumb through it. It turns out that although the story is boring and borderline propagandistic, the illustration style was amazing. [...]

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Whitney Shaw design and illustration

June 2, 2008 – 4:34 pm

Whitney Shaw does some sweet illustration and design. I’m especially impressed by her personal business card that she illustrated and had pressed by The Mandate Press.

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Whimsical paintings on shaved pencils by Ghostpatrol

May 29, 2008 – 9:23 am

I thought these paintings on shaved pencils by Ghostpatrol were pretty clever. It’s a great idea and the paintings themselves are like little ambiguous windows into a mystical world.
Via Kitsune Noir

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Letterpress guinea pig on scooter by Moontree

May 26, 2008 – 10:28 pm

Moontree Letterpress has a great blog about the designs that they make. I love this card design of a guinea pig on a scooter. It’s fun to see silly designs printed in such an elegant way. It’s for sale on Etsy. Be sure to check out their more “serious” work on [...]

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Charmingwall - Beautiful flash website design

May 16, 2008 – 12:26 pm

Charmingwall is a site that serves as a museum and store for art prints. The prints are great, but it was the site’s design that really impressed me. Usually I grumble about flash and prefer minimal and efficient designs, but this one is actually good. It starts as an organic, hand drawn [...]

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