Odding Wang: The Book of Red
Odding Wang‘s “The Book of Red,” a handcrafted notebook tribute to Pablo Picasso, is a beautifully made piece of paper cut storytel...
Tag: Handmade
Alliteration Inspiration: Quotes & Quickness
Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This weekâ€...
Bryan Patrick Todd: Banner Year
Bryan Patrick Todd recently opened his first solo show, “Banner Year,” which includes eight handcrafted banners featuring eight quotes se...
Lobulo Design: Atype
Lobulo Design created a series of sculptural experiments that turn a flat letterform into a three-dimensional object using paper. Get a closer look ri...
The American Craftsman Project
For the month of August, a series of guests will be filling in on DWL with daily posts. Today’s posts come to you from Jason Johnson who fights...
Recent Grad: Jiin Kim: New York Fashion Week Posters
Jiin Kim, another recent grad of Art Center College of Design, has an excellent portfolio. I was most impressed by these graphic, hand-sewn posters de...
MaricorMaricar: Makers, Dreamers
Feast your eyes on yet another gorgeous specimen of hand-embroidered typography by MaricorMaricar, featuring a quote from one of my favorite movies of...
Rachell Sumpter: Penguin Book Covers
I’m blown away by these hand-embroidered book covers that Rachell Sumpter created for Penguin under the art direction of Paul Buckley. Get a clo...
Demian Conrad Design: Almighty Identity
This beautiful identity for  Almighty, an interior design and home staging company, was designed by Demien Conrad Design using an interesting techniq...
Standard Grit
Standard Grit Flags are 100% hand-made, and produced in limited-editions. Released seasonally, we produce three new decorative flags four times a year...
Daniel Kornrumpf: Embroidered Portraits
Unfortunately, I don’t get away from the computer as much as I would like, so I greatly admire people that make things with their hands on a dai...
The Gilded Bee Packaging
Take a look at these colorful, playfully stamped packages from the Gilded Bee. How fun would it be to find this at your front door?...
Maricor/Maricar
Sydney-based Maricor/Maricar brings together their loves of typography, embroidery and patterns in this “Sweater Letter” series. via Wha...
A Friend Of Mine: Wired Weaving
Each month Wired magazine asks various contributors to illustrate the edition number of their magazine. For A Friend of Mine‘s recent contributi...
Oh Hi
I’m loving these embroidered, typographic canvases by Laura Belle of Oh Hi. She also has a great blog that I just added to my Google reader, che...
A Beautiful Idea
A Beautiful Idea, a new project from the lovely and talented Evie S, aims to make a big impact on the world through art and handmade goods. Through th...
Report Card Patterns
As I’ve mentioned before, I think scrapbook paper is a great resource for pattern inspiration. And the crafting possibilities are endless. Right...
Kup Kup Land
I am completely inspired by the work of Kima, the multi-talented artist behind the Kup Kup Land brand. Her shop is filled with all kinds of felt creat...
Lithuanian Identity
This book includes a hand-embroidered cover and 100 illustrated pages celebrating themes of Lithuania. It was created by Denis Kuchta while at NotPerf...
Inspired By: Modern Quilts
I happen to own a sewing machine, piles of fabric and this book, but I have yet to find the time and/or patience to take a stab at putting together a ...
Impeccable Craftsmanship
I’m thoroughly amazed and inspired by Carina’s embroidery work. via Decor8‘s Flickr favorites...
OK Experiment
Our friends over at OK Great have an ongoing experiment creating handmade versions of their logo with various materials. Lately they’ve been exp...
Printed Matter
Printed Matter is a project about craft within the context of graphic design. It brings together digital and hand made, aiming to challenge the idea w...
T-shirt Wednesdays
Some fun hand-drawn typography on this t-shirt by Ben Floeter. There’s not too many left, so move quickly! Suddenly It’s Real, $25...
Made by Julene
Amazing. via swissmiss...
Masking Tape!
If, like me, you missed out on the Japanese masking tape at dwr, you will be excited to check out these two etsy shops for a huge variety of them. Che...
In Honor of Presidents Day
Sorry about the lack of posting today—it’s a vacation day for us here in the States. But I wanted to take a minute to share something sent ove...
Songbird Sculptures
I think I’m probably the last to know about Emily Sutton’s meticulously detailed Songbird Sculptures, but I couldn’t resist posting ...
New from Marimekko
A few favorites from Marimekko’s new Spring 2009 fabric collection. Check out the full line right here. ....
Treat Zone
I just came across these amazing prints via Maquette and I had to post about them. Each one is gocco printed on a 5″x7″ sheet of vintage w...
I Wish I Had the Patience for This
These typographic paper creations have been popping up all over the place, but they’re so amazing I couldn’t resist posting. For more of Y...
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Ana Serrano Typography
Here are some beautiful examples of hand-drawn typography from artist/designer/illustrator, Ana Serrano....
I’ve Always Loved this Logo…
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I Took the Handmade Pledge
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A Few Paper n Stitch Favorites
Paper n Stitch is an online exhibition that is curated monthly and features a wide variety of handmade items from artists all over the world. It’...
A Year of Hand-drawn Type
I immediately bought this Beau Ideal 2009 calendar when I saw it on Oatmeal and Cinnamon. Screenprinted in a limited edition of 50, each month depicts...
Local Learning
Image of 3B Letterpress – EDGY Collection by The Type Junkie. $12 for a 5″x7″ print on etsy. As I’ve mentioned before, I love ...
Fabric Goodness
I’ve mentioned before how much I love pattern art, so naturally I’m drawn to patterned fabrics. I’m definitely not an expert, but on...
Best Store Ever
I realize that’s a bold statement to make; and I’m sure quite a few people wouldn’t agree with me. But ever since I read about Scrap...
I really want to make this…
Not sure if I have the patience to hand sew all those birds (or anywhere to hang it), but I really love the look of the final product. More about the ...
Renegade Update
So unfortunately I don’t really have any pictures from Renegade on Sunday. The weather was not so great—glad I remembered an umbrella—but th...
Decisions Decisions
It was really difficult to narrow down the list of vendors for this weekend’s Renegade Craft Fair into a few top picks. With over 200 to choose ...
Weekend Plans
This weekend I’ll be hitting up the 4th annual Renegade Craft Fair at the McCarren Park Pool in Brooklyn. Over 200 vendors will be selling handm...
Post Expose
I’ve been pretty excited about Post Expose since it opened, even though I’ve unfortunately not had a chance to get there yet. They’r...