Don’t forget to check out Lucy’s latest interview with Vanessa Colyer Tay (Style Editor for Australian InsideOut magazine) over at The Design Files.
Another stellar interview. She shares some great knowledge and links!
Tiny, skinny, handmade rings have always been a big favourite of mine; above are some that caught my eye whilst browsing Etsy.
1. Gorgeous rings from SingleBbeautiful
2. Tiny, tiny, tiny! Skinny Mini Cocktail Ring by crowsnestmountain
3. Beaded Stacking Ring from cherrycreek
4. TriColor Gold rings by junedesigns
You may be familiar with the name Edward Johnston, of London Underground lettering fame (the above image set in P22 Foundry’s digitisation of the typeface).
This phrase is an English translation of a Latin plaque that summarises the ethos of an artisan community to which Johnston belonged in the early twentieth century.
In the early 1900s Johnston followed [Eric] Gill to the village of Ditchling where, with a group of other fellow craftsmen, they began a community of artists that eventually led to the formation of the Guild of St Joseph and St Dominic. This organization focused on ideals of Catholicism, craftsmanship, cooperative living, and beauty in production — attracting a wide variety of artisans to Ditchling until the group’s disbandment in 1989.
Their little ethos sure does sound lovely — even though it turned out that Eric Gill was not the most angelic of souls after all.
Via a post on the MyFonts blog about Johnston and his writing desk.
Golden.
Business Card Wow
“It took me 25 years to design this. … It doesn’t fit in a Rolodex because it doesn’t belong in a Rolodex.”
The perfect companion piece to Am. Psycho’s classic b-card scene.
(via Allie, who surprise-delivers prizes via IM like a cat bringing a dead bird to a doorstep)
Update: Scott Beale’s found more info about this guy, including another video.
Australian Edge interviews designer Rob Cordiner who was born in Tasmania, lived in London and now calls Melbourne home.
There are aslo some interesting works featured that show more of his aptitude for pattern and colour at his website, http://www.task-focused.com/.
Under Consideration’s BRAND NEW actually covers the Aussie Dick Smith rebrand
Wow.
Anna Bond does it again, with new spectacular wedding invitation illustration. See more magic over at the ever-amazing Rifle.
These extraordinarily cute birds are too adorable for words.
Made by Lauren Alane, you can visit her website, blog and etsy store.
Tipped off by Rifle.
As Einstein once said
“The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.”
Go Glamping are using a graphic that looks suspiciously like one I saw a while ago for Kiki Post.
I remember the Kiki Post one because I loved it so much at the time. I wonder if the two have anything to do with each other.. or if it was just a case of waiting until the time was right to pounce on the design (Kiki Post’s site appears to be down or gone).
I love this adorable simple paper garland (via The Small Object Steno Pad » Stacked Triangle Garland)
“Take your design skills and create a design for some t-shirts, get them printed and then go pass them out to the homeless. If you’re able to do 100 or so t-shirts you could probably even get media coverage for doing it.”
This is one of the tips offered by this article with ‘10 Guerrilla Marketing Tactics for Designers’
Designers without ethics, perhaps. Wonderful demonstration of the short-sighted mentality that if you are giving the less fortunate something for free, they should be grateful and overlook the fact that you may be making more money from them than they might hope to see in a year.
I wish that I owned a café so that I could design the coffee cups.
