I shared an image by Philipp Dorn­bierer on my Tum­blr the other day, and peo­ple really responded to his work. So, more! More below. Mar­vel in the beau­ti­ful shapes, myth­i­cal crea­tures, and smart use of pos­i­tive and neg­a­tive space. All images via his web­site. ...

Dawn Gard­ner, a recent graphic design grad­u­ate, uses dig­i­tal col­lage and a clean use of typog­ra­phy to com­pose images that have sev­eral dichotomies to them. Com­po­si­tions are both struc­tural yet play­ful. They are abstract in their arrange­ment, but com­prised of pho­tographs. There is both focus and diffusion. There is a cer­tain amount of ease with ...

Last week in my posts I explored quite a bit about stroke — fea­tur­ing artists that employed a con­fi­dent and direct stroke that echos through­out their work. Jen­nifer Hen­nesy, a graphic designer and artist has work in the same vein. Her projects, draw­ings, and even type­faces employ a line and shapes that evoke a care­free ...

Yes­ter­day, Anthony Zinonos tweeted about “smart GIFs”. Intrigued (as I tend to be drawn to the not-so-smart vari­ety), I clicked the link. I was not dis­ap­pointed. Made for the Respub­lica Book­store Reel, the GIFs them­selves are ani­ma­tions of posters, designed by Stas Leon­tev and ani­mated by Pavel Para­tov. Sim­ple, clean, and fluid, these small GIFs ...

My grad­u­ate pro­gram (MFA Illus­tra­tion Prac­tice, MFA ILP for short!) has an exhi­bi­tion com­ing up next week. Every­one is hang­ing sev­eral pieces of work, all in vary­ing media and tech­niques. To really tie the show together, we are using QR codes (square bar codes you see on magazines,fliers, etc.), mak­ing the show inter­ac­tive as well. ...

A few years ago, I tried my hand (lit­er­ally and fig­u­ra­tively) at hand let­ter­ing. My lack of atten­tion to detail was not con­ducive to suc­cess­fully and neatly illus­trat­ing text itself. Kate Prior, how­ever, has it right. Her inven­tive and cre­ative solu­tions to the stan­dard posters and sinage boast the text as a focal point, not ...

The guys over at Nous Vous have recently launched their new web­site, which is delight­fully inter­ac­tive. Using a clean lay­out with a smart use of rollovers, it really shows off all the work Nous Vous (which, by the way, is made up of Jay Cover, William Edmonds, and Nico­las Bur­rows) have done. Rang­ing from print ...

On Twit­ter, I shared a pic­ture of the kit­ten I got last week, Pauline. Hav­ing not had a cat for 7+ years, it’s been a really inter­est­ing (and some­times frus­trat­ing) expe­ri­ence to have a pet again. I had to take her to the vet on Wednes­day, have her get shots, spayed… the works. Need­less to ...

Right now, present to me a work that has rounded, amoeba-like shapes, and I’m in love. There is some­thing about them that is a bit car­toon­ish to me, a bit of a blast from the past with my child­hood. Insert­ing them into any project instantly adds a bit of humor and play­ful nature to it. Take ...

I was pok­ing around Kristina Klarin’s web­site (look at her awe­some jew­elry!) and blog, and stum­bled upon Moroc­can rugs that she had posted. Per­son­ally, I have always been enthralled with the process of rug cre­ation. Most often, it’s very time con­sum­ing and rather difficult! That is par­tially what draws me to these rugs. They are ...