Just a bit of catching up, here are some things I liked over my hectic summer. Click on the images to go to their source.
Something about this Concorde ticket holder from 1963 just awes me. I can’t remember what my recent ticket holders looked like but I know none of them were this [...]
There’s some great stuff in this gallery of posters designed for Flight of the Concords’ Spring 2009 tour.
These are some things I liked last week, click on the images to be taken to their sources.
Really innovative animation style using strips of paper, nice song as well.
Clever ad, I hate mangled toast!
I never knew a rat could be this beautiful, it makes me want one. The colors and bokeh on this photo [...]
Kevin Cherry is an art teacher that creates fantastic mixed media collages with typographic subjects in his free time. For the most part, the collages consist of paper, photo transfer, and screen printing onto painted wood. Sounds like a lot of work, but the texture it creates is very nice.
I remember seeing this beard illustration that was inspired by Milton Glaser’s Bob Dylan illustration. Well, now it is available as a poster from Beard Revue. If I didn’t currently have a surplus of art waiting around to be hung on my already crowded walls, this would be a must buy for me.
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I am loving this print for sale at L’Affiche Moderne entitled, El arca y el diluvio by Argintinian illustrator Gustavo Amir. His pieces are innocent and childlike, but reflect a complex maturity in the emotions they evoke. Check out his Flickr gallery for lots more of his great work.
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Since I didn’t end up getting a calendar for Christmas, I just bought this letterpress seasonal wall calendar from ave9river. A seasonal calendar is perfect for a calendar page flipping procrastinator like me. Ave9river makes very delicate and beautiful letterpress designs. I also loved her snowbird holiday card design.
I love the prints that graphic design and print studio “Lovely” creates, and I especially enjoy the ones that are printed on found paper materials. It gives the prints a one-of-a-kind feel that is always nice to have when you buy art. They have lots of great photos of their work on Flickr [...]
I thought this letterpress snow angel greeting card design made by Brooklyn Bookbinder, was pretty clever. I love how the snow angel part is imprinted into the card with no ink, it really looks like impressions in snow. You can purchase it right now in Brooklyn Bookbinder’s Etsy shop.
Illustrator Lehel Kovacs occasionally makes some really nice typographic illustrations based on Yahoo headlines of the day. You can purchase some prints of those, along with other fantastic illustrations at his shop. If you want to follow his progress, he also maintains a blog.