‘Baby, you’re my Univers. Meeting you was no Akzidenz. I can see that we‘ve got a great Futura. We were Meta be together.’
Handmade by Machine’s Just My Type greeting cards. Details here. Unfortunately, only UK-shipping is available for now.
Found via cebe design
So this past semester, I added a more comprehensive safety lecture to the learning to use an X-Acto knife portion of my beginning design classes.
And this was the first semester that some serious injuries actually occurred.
I’m thinking I should have not warned them so conscientiously. Usually I just say, a sharp X-Acto can cut thru pretty much anything. Paper, boards, plastic triangle, fingers. That’s my disclaimer. Don’t want to go into any more detail.
Elsa Mora does cool things with cut paper. She has a great X-Acto tutorial here.
(Yes designers still use X-Acto knifes. Mostly for presentation/mockups. And yes, I was once trained as a paste-up artist; something I could fall back on if computers just suddenly vanish. Sort of. Ahh, the smell of fresh Amberlith in the morning!)
Found via Natasha Newton
Jeanne’s gotten herself hooked on this thing called SuperPoke! Pets.
And she’s turned it into a major playground, building elaborate constructed environments. With pets at the center. Grendl is her dragon. The whole thing has a manga-like feel.
My Valentine from my wife (above) took hours to build and features my absolute favorite food, crab. (It’s a San Francisco thing. And tearing thru all the shells, with one small fork, I consider an art form.) Each black dot is a piece of coal, each white and blue flower carefully placed. See the completed environment (animated) live today by clicking on the image.
Sort of watching from the sidelines, I’ve seen how elaborate this SPP universe has become. I have a few observations: [Read more →]
‘Love Fonts Memo is a classic memory game where it’s all about finding a matching pair of cards. At the end the player with most card pairs wins. The cards represent love stories about different kind of type faces.’
The work of Swedish design student/freelance designer Sara Strand.
Found via The Dieline
‘Love is a dish best served in a buffet . . . free mixtape features tunes from Echaskech, Fol Chen, Magnetic Fields and many more’
Here’s a link to an intense Valentines Day mix from Alan Ranta of PopMatters.
Happy Valentines Day!
HE incredible Jessica Hische is also from Hazleton, PA.
Knows what a good Eastern Pennsylvania snack pitza is. Knows about this thing called Root Liquor (which I didn’t know about; I just know about Birch Beer, my favorite beverage from back there). And she’s been doing a drop cap a day for a few months now.
Drop caps, initial caps go wayyyy back – mainstays of illuminated manuscripts, and they’re part of the reason we’re still using caps today (for beginnings of sentences, names).
Jessica provides code to add caps to your own blog. Grab em here.
ND, as of last month, the caps are available as prints. Archival, on velvet coated fine art paper.
But that’s not all. Jessica has a bunch of other cool stuff in her store, including this wonderful ‘Day-Runining’ notepad (pics below). The pad has individual sheets one can send to unruly clients who don’t pay for your services, waste your time and – of course – ruin your day.
Order the pad here. Order the Drop Cap prints here.
And
Visit Jessica’s complete store here.
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