I love typography

Today I attended a class of typeface design in Istanbul! Graphic designer and typeface designer Peter Brugger talked about his Matryoshka font, and student work Currywurst, as well as the Reuters font. See the talk here. It feels good to learn something new!

Instant inspiration

As soon as I click in on Papya Art, I knew I liked it. Papya Art was founded by a mother/daughter team. I love their credo:

CREATIVE ABANDON
Creative Abandon is our credo. To us it means that we ultimately answer to our creative impulses. We believe in a no apologies policy of artistic & manufacturing experimentation. We will always make paper giveables AND we may just throw a shower curtain into the mix at any time! So be alert. PAPAYA! is a place for exploring, discovering, and enjoying a myriad of goods. It is our goal that you be just as surprised and delighted as we are. It also means we won’t be making anything just because “it sells”. Our promise to you is that everything we make - we love.

So here's a splurge, mostly giclee prints from their decor department, but I am also throwing in two pictures of their wrapping paper.

Simple and true

Elephants are lovely creatures. They have a special charm about them. Here they are in a quite simplified version made by
Umbrella Prints. Sweet Elephant!

I Do?

Are you looking for good ideas for your wedding? Or even for some freebies, such as clipart, fonts and lovely, printable lables? I would take a look at this blog: iDiY.
I love the design of the invites. I just had to download the gorgeous font Carpenter. You can do it too – at Fonts101!
And I like this Free Doily Clipart, and I would also like to try the idea about customizing my own soap. Happy!

Vintage Resource

I am just having too much fun playing with the images posted at The Vintage Moth. A blog where you can find old images, and go creatively nuts making art for you home, or perhaps a beautiful card for someone you love.
I would like my collage transferred to a china mug or a vase.

Elephants

Elephants are on my mind these days, so I had to do a drawing. I used a picture of some colored masking tape as my palette. The text reads: Three elephants came marching ... along the spiders fine web. From a childrens song.

Be Yourself

I was inspired by this quote on Spagats blog, and I did my own interpretation of it in Photoshop.

– Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.
Oscar wilde

Happy Birthday!

So many members of my family have their birthday this month. So I am celebrating with a birthdaycard. I wanted to do something with the classic light bulb. They are saying it is going to be banned here in Norway, as of next year. And I think it is a shame. Just because it is so beautiful... So I played around with a photo from StockXchange, and tried to make something sparkling from an otherwise gray and dull picture.
So happy birthday to everyone born in march!

Revisiting Oh Joy! Studio

The delightful pattern designs at Oh Joy! Studio make me happy... Here seen on rugs, cards and cookies!

Happy anniversary, Umami!

Umami was discovered a 100 years ago (yesterday), by japanese Kikunae Ikeda, who named the fifth discernable taste; UMAMI. Umami is Japanese and means Good or Fresh!

Greeting card from CardMaven at www.etsy.com

Sea weed thing

I love working with pattern design. I try to experiment with shapes and patterns whenever I get inspired. Here's my latest creation. I started out with two random shapes, and it reminded me of shells and black seaweed bladders. I found some images later on which confirmed my impressions. When applying the pattern to the metal canister, it seemed to look like a box of Sushi to me.

Spring thing

I guess Spring is my favorite time of year. I can't get enough of the color green.
This is my celebration of Spring.

Emmanuel

Daily Poetics is one of my favorite blogs. Daily Poetics has so many categories, and you can just go treasure hunting here. Some of the categories are: art/design, black, blue, creative impulses, Dictionary Poetry, secret spaces and wallpaper…

Today I looked at ARTIST, and discovered the artist Emmanuel Polanco. Wonderful colours, and I love the style!

Giraffe cup

Sometimes a beautiful cup is all you need to bring a smile to your face. I wish I had a cup like this to drink my coffee from. It's a quick photoshop mock-up of one of my own designs.

See more of Anne Olaug Soleng's work at smakogse.no.

Ajay Singh from India shared the photo of the cup on Stock.Xchange, which I used for this post.

Nantaka Joy – new webstore

Philadelphia-based textile and graphic designer Joy Deangdeelert Cho creates the most delicate and wonderful cards. I love the details and admire her work. Her cards are really high quality work. LOVE!

She is also a blogger, and it's worth a daily visit. Most inspiring!

Egglings

These egglings from Curiosity Shoppe are simply irresistable! I love the egg 'n herb it self. And the packaging is lovely, too.

Illustrator John Hendrix

I was in the virtual gallery at www.iamny.org, where I read John Hendrix' notes from their conference. His notebook is a true inspiration. Hendrix seems so focused in his expression and style.

Inspiration of the day

NOM:NAL DES:GN
I love the simple and graphic style in which this designer is working.

everyday inspiration...

I like the design and photos of this artist.

Saturday Inspiration

I randomly googled the word "Masterpiece" and stumbled upon Julie's journal
Wonderful, wonderful drawings.

Which lead me to som interesting atrist's portfolios and blogs:
Inkfingers
Jennifer Nicholls
Sketchbook drawings