Showing posts with label illustration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label illustration. Show all posts

Monday, June 8, 2009

Prints if you please!



I've abruptly changed gears and have been on the hunt for things for our upcoming move to the bigger apartment upstairs. For instance, these adorable Gocco prints by Argyle Whale, who I saw at the Renegade Craft Fair this weekend. We have so much wall space I can now buy things in small groups of THEMES. This one being animal love. Let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel.

There's a lot of different prints as well as notecards, etc. And I am supposed to be saving for new furniture. Ahahahaha!!

Things I will do with all that space:
1. The second bedroom will become Alex's DJ/music room.
2. The 5x5 Expedit bookshelf from Ikea will go in the bedroom, which will double as my work room. Art supplies, art books, knitting crap and more. There is a wall full of built in shelves in the living room for books, movies & photos.
3. The second bathroom will double as ... MY DARKROOM! Years of wishful thinking finally come true. I've already started looking up enlargers on eBay. A hint - make sure you add a "darkroom and developing" filter or else you'll end up with a search full of penis enlargers. Funny but also disturbing.
4. We can buy a full sized dining room table so I can start my supper club.
5. Rooftop access = herb garden. And BBQs!

Yes we will! If anyone has any good leads on nice vintage furniture, let me know. We need dining table, chairs (will take mismatched ones), a dresser, new couch (Alex's request), possibly a new desk. I'm getting free rein this time!

Friday, May 22, 2009

Lynn Hatzius



Awesome work by illustrator Lynn Hatzius. I love her collages, they remind me a little of Judith Supine.

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Wowowow

I discovered Grain Edit, a design blog, a while ago. A great source of inspiration, ideas and designers! From there I happened upon this blog, stickers and stuff, full of great images from children's books both new and old, as well as posters, signs, photography and other things in print.

Here are my favorites:
Starfish by Edith Thacher Hurd

A newer version is available but this is from the 1962 edition. I believe it is out of print but available here at Alibris. If anyone would like to purchase this for me I would not be mad at that!

Logo for Baconfest 2009

First of all, pigs are awesome. Secondly, I love this kind of typography, where the letters form the object. I just do.

Another site I found on GE belongs to Adrian Johnson, an artist from the UK. His artwork is reminiscent of old 70s cartoons and his colors are vibrant and bright. He has done a lot of advertising work, as well as t-shirt designs for 2K by Gingham. An immediate favorite:



Also check his animations. Here are a few of my favorites:
Made for each other
Squirt
Clouds

Things that make me happy!

Friday, July 25, 2008

Death by Drone





Daily Candy describes the designs of Death by Drone as embodying Edward Gorey-like ghastliness. Which could be true, if you've never actually seen Edward Gorey's work.

No matter, I am quite taken with the horrid, absurd nature of these illustrations. The frocks themselves are cute in stature, especially the strawberry dress with square open back and little globular buttons at the back.