I was so excited to see the trailer for Moonrise Kingdom featured the work of Jessica Hische. Not only is her extensive catalog of lettering, design, and illustration work inspiring, her blog is always insightful, humorous, and interesting.
Her outside creative projects are equally as cool (i.e. the "Should I work for Free?" infographic) and now that I've seen her fonts section I'm noticing them everywhere.
I absolutely love [hoard] beautiful book covers so this set speaks to my heart. You can buy them here.
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09/13/2011
Inspiration: Irene Suchocki's Eye Poetry
I'm completely taken with these dreamlike images by Irene Suchocki of wild horses running in Camargue, France. I love how she is able to evoke a magical feeling through experimental photography techniques both in camera and in the digital darkroom.
To see more of Irene's work take a visit to her website: Eye Poetry by Irene Suchocki
09/09/2011
Friday Inspiration: Contemporary Papercuts
A little Friday inspiration... papercut (top) By Elsa Mora (Elista), and a new book PAPER CUTTING (that she also designed the cover of) which includes another one of my top favorite artists, Rob Ryan. I'm looking forward to grabbing myself a copy!
09/07/2011
07/27/2011
Russian Fairy Tales: Illustrations by Raquel Aparicio
This Russian fairy tale series by 24 year old illustrator Raquel Aparicio caught my eye recently.
To see more of Raquel's illustrations take a visit to her online print shop, and website.
06/27/2011
Donna Wilson's Cute Menangerie
Last week I took the liberty of doing some serious magazine shopping in Amsterdam's airport (I love it there, the hours went by so quickly browsing through all of their great shops!). I ended up bringing home some really inspiring European magazines: Flow, Marie Claire Idees, vtwomen, Jansen...and something my mom got me hooked on (UK based) Country Living. Each issue kept me entirely captivated through even the most ultimate stages of jetlag!
In the Dutch magazine vtwomen, Donna Wilson's animal ceramics caught my eye. I loved the simplistic & whimsical quality of her work.
Originally from Scotland, she's now based in the UK. The studio is committed to making treasured objects. Using UK based manufacturers and suppliers wherever possible, in the spirit of keeping craftsmanship alive.
To see more take a visit to her website: www.donnawilson.com
06/14/2011
Maggie Taylor in Wonderland
Maggie Taylor's book "landscape of dreams" captivated my creative spirit and made me look at digital collage work in a new light. She breaks her pieces down into layers, giving you a creative road map into her work fusing vintage photographs, digital photographs, and elements from photoshop. A great resource for digital artists working with vintage photographs in photoshop, I'd highly recommend it!
Shown are a few plates from her surreal vision of Alice in Wonderland, from Modern Editions. So dreamy.
05/27/2011
Flora Bowley: Podcast Interview via Do What You Love
At Do What You Love, PAPAYA! artist Flora Bowley chats candidly about how she became a painter, and found her own personal style. She also dives into talking about licensing her work, teaching, traveling abroad, creating the life you want, and how she fuels her creative spirit.
Hear Flora's Podcast at Do What You Love.
Flora has a wide variety of products available through PAPAYA!, including tote bags, sticky notes, memo mouse pads, fine paper wrap, hard cover journals, spiral journals, and envelope sets. To see more of Flora's work, and find information regarding her painting classes, take a visit to her personal website and inspiring blog.
03/31/2011
Creating beauty through photoblogging, inspiring images by Sandra Juto
Sandra Juto's artistic photographs, give me the feeling of traveling without moving as I'm following her and her husband Johan's story through silent stills.
Originally from Sweden, she's recently moved to Berlin, Germany, where she works as an artist, illustrator and graphic designer. To see more of Sandra Juto's photographs be sure to take a visit to her blog & flickr.
Her photographs have been inspiring me to try to get back into photoblogging, which was a great creative outlet for me in the past. It's a great way to capture beauty for even the smallest things in life, and find a deeper appreciation for those things that quickly dissapear... like a nice cup of artfully swirled latte.
I love how photography can carry a feeling, and be reminders of where you've been and where you're going. You can use them like visual diaries, make photobooks on blurb, share with the world on sites like flickr, or simply keep them as mementos for all your own. All you need to begin your visual journey is a camera, and even the simplest will do. (The images above taken by Sandra were from her iphone, with an app called Instagram.)
