Valerie Jar 2011 Calendar

I’m a big fan of Valerie Jar’s illustration and design work, so I was excited to see that her 2011 calendar is now available. This year’s design features a series of quirky animal illustrations and comes in 7 different color…

Gift Guide 2010: For the Guys

1. Video Game Controller Poster, $30.00 / 2. Rhodesian Postage Stamp Cufflinks, $70.00 / 3. Icon Printed Banker’s Envelope, $250.00 / 4. Meatbagz, $38.00 and up   5. Star Wars Pancake Molds, $19.95 / 6. Forage Bowtie, $65.00 / 7.…

Ty Mattson’s LOST Final Season Print

By now all or you should have seen Ty Mattson‘s great series of LOST posters; but this one is a little bit different. To commemorate the final season, Ty developed a single icon to represent each episode, then silkscreened the…

Tom Davie Note Cards + Prints

My gift guides are all set up and ready to go, but I’ve come across a few other great gifts this week, so I will be featuring them here and there over the next couple of days. First up, this…

Gift Guide 2010: Typography

1. Resolution Pencils, $8.00 / 2. Thoughts Postcards, $12.00 / 3. Collector Plate, $50.00 / 4. OMFG Journal, $8.00 / 5. Alphabet Greeting Cards, $398.00 / 6. Serrote Letterpress Notebook, $10.00   7. N.Y. Tote, $16.00 / 8. Yarn and…

Gift Guide: Fire

From Wikipedia: Fire Signs: Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius— Fire represents one’s desires and creative energies. The Fire signs are associated with action, passion, energy, and heat, and people with a lot of fire in their make up are confident, bright,…

Gift Guide 2010: Air

From Wikipedia: Air Signs: Gemini, Libra, and Aquarius— Air represents the intellect and one’s ability to reason and communicate. The Air signs are associated with thought, perspective, hastiness, and communication. People with air in their astrological compositions are intellectual, objective,…

Gift Guide 2010: Water

From Wikipedia: Water Signs: Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces— Water represents imagination, human feelings and one’s ability to love and sustain. The Water signs are associated with growth processes, imagination, identification and emotion, and people with a lot of water in…

Gift Guide 2010: Earth

From Wikipedia: Earth Signs: Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn— Earth represents one’s material resources, environment and possessions. The Earth signs are associated with sensation, stability and practicality, and people with a lot of earth in their make up are solid, dependable,…

It’s Gift Guide Time

If you had any time off last week for Thanksgiving, I hope you enjoyed it! This week will be a little bit different as it will mostly be devoted to the 2010 Gift Guides. If you weren’t around for the…

COÖP: 1.1 Architects

I’m fascinated by this branding for 1.1 Architects by COÖP. According to designer Paul Marcus Fuog, “The collaborative practice was interpreted through the mark which was based on the geometric principles of the tesseract where imagination and varying inputs can…

DOPLUDO

Three-dimensional artwork has never been my strong suit, so I’m always envious of those who excel at woodworking and things of that nature. For example, I’m loving these adorable characters conceptualized and constructed by Dopludo Collective.

Scott Pilgrim Paper Art

I’m loving this Scott Pilgrim-inspired, pixelated, three-dimensional paper art by Ruth Afrita, a young designer from Indonesia.

Tandem Design for Herman Miller

This post was published temporarily last week as a result of some unexpected site blips—apologies if you happened to catch the incomplete version! Tandem Design recently completed some promotional materials to mark the launch of Herman Miller’s Nelson Basic Cabinet…

Douglas Richard Design

Douglas Richard’s project, Farm to City, is a branding program that encompasses posters, print materials and packaging. Farm to City, an initiative that aims to connect farmers with  city dwellers through Farmers’ markets, CSA’s and co-op’s, is just one example…