Alberto Seveso
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The work of Italian designer and illustrator, Alberto Seveso, completely blew me away. His style is very different from my own, so the layering in his...
Category: Art
Courtney • Harmonie interieure Prints
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I became obsessed with these typographic designs when I saw them on the Graphic Exchange last fall. And I hadn’t visited the main site in awhile—an am...
San Francisco: Vaillancourt Fountain
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After checking out the Ferry Building we stumbled upon this really amazing public artwork at the Embarcadero Center. After doing a little bit of resea...
I Wish I Had More Wall Space
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Yesterday I discovered another blog (via Uppercase) dedicated solely to posters and prints. Not that I need another blog to add to my list, but from w...
The Heads of State Site Redesign
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One of the many growing collections in my apartment is screen-printed show posters. We have quite a few of them, designed by various artists for sever...
T-shirt Wednesdays
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I couldn’t decide on just two this week… Field Study, $20 at Threadless Le Romantique, $20 at Threadless colorstorm, $20 at Design By Humans...
San Francisco: Cornerstone Place
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While driving up to Napa and looking for something to eat we stumbled upon Cornerstone Place in Sonoma. It turned out that their cafe was undergoing r...
Leesa Leva shop open!
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Check it out here....
San Francisco: Mission District Murals
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Murals found in the Mission District off of Valencia Street....
NYC Waterfalls
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If you’re in the New York area or plan on visiting in the next few months, I definitely recommend checking out the New York City waterfalls, the lates...
Jordan Domont
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I first came across the illustration work of Jordon Domont in the current issue of HOW. I noticed his portraits in the table of contents and immediate...
T-shirt Wednesdays
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I must admit that sometimes I’m a complete sucker for cute. And this Threadless shirt (while I’m not sure I’d actually wear it) is ridiculously so. Co...
Evgeny Parfenov Illustration
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I really love the style of this work. A Moscow-based illustrator, Parfenov uses a highly stylized technique that still lends itself to pretty realisti...
Sete Dias
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There isn’t really any background information on this visual blog so I’m not entirely sure about the thought behind it; but the work is really beautif...
Strawberry Shortcake gets a cell phone?
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Now you have to understand, I was one of those girls who grew up with Strawberry Shortcake in the 80’s. I had a Strawberry Shortcake sleeping bag, and...
Pattern Art & Julia Rothman
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I love pattern art. I use it A LOT in my work—probably too much according to some people. But it’s one aspect of design that I really enjoy playing ar...
Lab Partners
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I’ve been following the work of San Francisco-based Lab Partners for a few months now. Their style is both modern and retro at the same time, which I ...
Leesa Leeva
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I’m not sure how I came across Leesa Leva’s work initially, but I was recently reintroduced to it through Behance. She primarily works in watercolor a...
Hello Hello
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Let’s start Monday off with the fun and colorful work of artist and illustrator Stephen Crowhurst. See more work at Hello Hello. via Design*Sponge...
Speaking of Penguin…
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I am coveting this newly-released set of James Bond novels. Not that I’m a particularly big James Bond fan, but the cover art alone is worth the purch...
Hiphop-potamus vs. Rhymenocerous
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I was disappointed to learn that the new season of Flight of the Conchords will be delayed until the fall because of the writers’ strike, but these ne...
Dream In Color
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This book—the first monograph on artist Lulu de Kwiatkowski—looks gorgeous. de Kwiatkowski is more well-known for her designer textile line, LULU DK; ...
A little Conference break for Font Bots
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These fun typographic illustrations from INVDR made the blog rounds a couple of weeks ago but I thought they’re still worth mentioning. I love the pla...
Daily Monster
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Designer and Illustrator Stefan Bucher, of Daily Monster fame, gave a talk along with John Foster called “Arriving at Creativity”. The most entertaini...