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 ...

I don’t know about you, but I love to lis­ten to artists explain their cre­ative process, talk about inspi­ra­tion, and their strug­gles to get to where they are today. Ira Glass gives a great talk on this, and it’s very moti­vat­ing for some­one who iden­ti­fies as a cre­ative type. The Blank Sheet Project is described as, ...

Dana Davis emailed me her web­site recently, and I was really excited about what I saw. A senior graphic design major at the Rhode Island School of Design, her web­site includes one of my favorite things of all time: ani­mated gifs. Ani­mated gifs, in their chop­pi­ness and awk­ward­ness amuse me to no end. To view Dana’s ...

Thanks to Mal­lory on over at Where The Lovely Things Are, I have dis­cov­ered the work of Helmo, a French graphic design duo com­prised of Thomas Coud­erc and Clement Vauchez. Together they design posters, books, sinage, among other things. Their series titled, Pronomade(s), are pho­tographs with cam­ou­flaged giants. Each land­scape has a char­ac­ter within it, ...

For this Tues­day, I’ve cho­sen to show the work of Alex Stein­weiss, a graphic designer who is respon­si­ble for cre­at­ing what we know as the album cover. Prior to this, albums were sim­ply wrapped in plain brown wrap­pers — only spe­cial releases had any sort of art on the cover. Stein­weiss was the first art direc­tor ...

I am really glad that I was intro­duced to the work of Karolin Schnoor. Her work is beau­ti­ful, eye-catching, and over­all very elegant. Karolin’s port­fo­lio is diverse. Her work is used in graphic design, in large-scale adver­tise­ments, and gallery shows. She has also incor­po­rated it into prod­uct design. The con­tent is play­ful and some­what fem­i­nine, ...

To round out the post day, I’ve decided to write about another cut paper artist. Mr. Yen (real name Jonathan Chap­man) is a graphic design stu­dent out of the UK and already mak­ing a name for him­self (aside from call­ing him­self Mr. Yen)! Mr. Yen’s aes­thetic is clean, crisp, and and gen­er­ally mono­chro­matic. It is evi­dent ...

Rachel Wil­son stud­ied Eng­lish in col­lege. After hav­ing worked in the pub­lish­ing indus­try for awhile, she even­tu­ally returned to her love of mak­ing things. I think that Rachel’s time spent study­ing lit­er­a­ture shines through in her work. Upon view­ing her work, I was instantly reminded of the Art Nou­veau move­ment. Her draw­ings, like that the art ...

I really like sto­ries and poetry. It’s what helps drive my love for illus­tra­tion — the fur­ther inter­pre­ta­tion of lan­guage and the writ­ten word. Jim Houser is an artist/illustrator using poetry to drive him images, cre­at­ing an almost quilt of typog­ra­phy, sym­bols, and design. I move through Jim’s work almost like a maze, with poetry ...

DJG Design (aka Danny Gib­son) is an artist/designer I’ve been admir­ing since I was in high school. He was the artist doing the show posters and local album cov­ers in my home­town and has since expanded his pop­u­lar­ity to more than just the mid-west United States. DJG’s media of choice really varies. He uses col­lage, ...