A Guide to Fifty-nine Fields

Tiny Showcase released the second print in their learning series last night. This time, artist Nigel Peake created an oversized poster featuring highly detailed line drawings of various field, including Haystacks and Apple Trees. Check it out for yourself and/or…

T-shirt Wednesdays

Common Threadz offers limited edition, artist-designed t-shirts that make a difference. For every shirt you buy, they will donate a school uniform to an orphan in a developing nation. Read more about their mission right here. There are quite a…

Obsessions Make My Life Worse and My Work Better

Image via anjens Take a look at Stefan Sagmeister’s latest addition to the ongoing “Things I’ve Learned in my Life So Far” series, a statement that probably rings true for most designers. (Submit your own right here.) The message, created…

Polanoid

Here are a couple favorites (though it’s hard to choose) from the “biggest Polaroid-picture-collection of the planet”. Much much more here. Clockwise from top left: motel, sixblueten, granthamilton, amaliachimera

Brian Oakes

I recently came across the work of Brian Oakes in an article on Design Observer where they were discussing the Lehman Brothers situation. What brought up his name was his motion graphics work on the documentary I.O.U.S.A. The film examines…

Mathiole

Beautiful illustrations from Matheus Lopes. Found by way of Design by Humans, where his t-shirt design (a collaboration with Saltyshadow) is a finalist in the DBH 10k contest. Click here to vote.

Random Resources 09.22.08

In my day-to-day web browsing I come across a lot of helpful resources that don’t necessarily warrant a full post. So I’ve decided to start compiling a few together every so often, and hopefully they’ll save you a bit of…

You Are What You Touch

Advertising is a field I don’t often draw inspiration from—I started out as an Advertising Design major in college and it quickly wore on me. But every once in awhile I come across a campaign that makes me look, like…

Masters of Design

This month Fast Company has published it’s annual Masters of Design issue. All of the content is focused on design and business—from architecture to fashion to graphic design and everything in between. You can check out some of the articles…

The GOOD Sheet No.2 and other GOOD stuff

GOOD Magazine released the second GOOD Sheet—Bill of Health—yesterday. Again, click on the image below to see the full size version. (By the way I finally found last week’s sheet in my local Starbucks today, so I think they’re running…

Joseph Llanes

I immediately fell in love with the photography of Joseph Llanes when I saw the shot of this little boy on Communication Arts. You can’t get much more adorable than that. There’s lots more engaging portraiture to see in his…

Tavis Coburn

According to Telegramme Prints, Tavis Coburn’s unique retro-looking work is influenced by 1940s comic book art, the Russian avant-garde movement, and printed materials from the 1950s His site is currently under construction, but you can download a PDF of some…

Friday Fun

I saw the Kawaii Not book awhile ago, but I never realized that the “cute gone bad” illustrations originated as a web comic. Check out the rest right here.

Color Happy 8

I love pretty much everything about this journal from Rosehip. But the fresh color palette definitely stands out. Check out their full range of stationery products right here.

Giants!

Love this series (especially the color palette) by Pietari Posti, an ongoing personal project that currently includes 11 images. Hopefully he will eventually make them all into prints, but for now you can purchase this one in t-shirt or print…

Type Love 16: Priori

I just recently received Emigre‘s latest type catalog (sign up to receive your own copy here) in the mail, which reminded me how extensive their offerings are. One that stood out this time around is Priori, a massive type family…

Home Sweet Home

Tara Donne is a New York-based photographer focusing on travel and portraits, and food. I especially love how she organizes her portfolio into categories that really allow each set to tell a story. These few are from the New England…