Monday Quick Links: 10.12.09

Benign Objects has a new folksy desktop wallpaper available for download Simplify Our Love, a new print by Rob Ryan Soft Maps are “quilted maps of neighborhoods and parks that represent someone’s unique place in the city” (Thanks for the…

Christa Palazzolo

I’m fascinated by Christa Palazzolo’s portraiture, which she uses “as a vehicle of mockery, isolation, discomfort, and objectification”. View more from the selection below, “The Talking Heads Series”, and the rest of her portfolio right here.

Tight Slice

Tight Slice is the work of Austin Petito, who also works at the Winter Park, Florida-based print shop, Mama’s Sauce.

To Dry For

If you’re in the market for some fun, designy tea towels, the husband and wife team behind To Dry For is your answer. Here are a few of my favorites, but there are over 100 designs in their inventory, so…

Song faces

Yup, more hand-lettering. Meg Hunt has started a daily project where she chooses a song from her ipod and letters the title. You can find the whole collection right here in her Flickr stream.

P41 Studios

I don’t feature web design too often, but that is about to change. In addition to having an interesting concept for their own site (the site is designed around forced stimulation, so the moving gif’s actually battle the “channel surfing”…

Monday Quick Links: 10.05.09

I come across so many bits and pieces of design every week that I wanted to create a place to collect them. I’ve been posting these kind of things here and there, but I finally decided to start a weekly…