Tag Handmade

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 storytelling by the artist/designer from Beijing. “The Book of Red” is part of Odding’s series “Everyone Has A Story,” accompanied by…

Bryan Patrick Todd: Banner Year

Bryan Patrick Todd recently opened his first solo show, “Banner Year,” which includes eight handcrafted banners featuring eight quotes serving as “part motivation, part fun.”

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 right here.

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 the good fight as an Art Director/Designer at TunnelBravo. For more from Jason, check out…

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 all time, to boot. Prints will soon be available in their shop, so keep an eye out.

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 technique. The pattern of organic shapes adorning the printed pieces were created through Suminagashi marbling, an ancient Japanese technique…

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. Each release has a loose common theme, and feature distinctive phrases that might serve as a call to…

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 daily basis. Case in point, Daniel Kornrumpf, who created these amazing hyper-realistic, embroidered…

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 contribution, they went the completely unexpected route and worked with a weaving artist to craft a hand-woven rug out…

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, check it out.

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 the site, a network of artists will commit to create exclusive products…

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 now I love the retro feeling Report Card line by October Afternoon, which is available at Two Peas…

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 creations, from collages to pin cushions. And she also sells some equally adorable…