Great Gatsby Business Card Print

From The Heads of State, a gorgeous poster of business cards for the characters in Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.  It's beautiful typography and vintage aesthetic make it drool worthy.

Ink and Wit

 

 Ink and Wit does beautiful letterpress and offset printing of cards, gift wrap, notecards and more. They also do design and web work. You can download the portfolios and take a look.

Things I love on Purl Bee

If I had lots and lots of free time, space and money I would make these things.....

Linen and Measuring Tape Towels

Rose Barettes

Little Forest Quilt

Printed Napkins

Charlie Harper

Charlie Harper (1922-2007) was an prolific illustrator who worked for Ford Motor Company’s magazine, Ford Times, as well as many conversation-oriented organizations such as zoos and national parks. His works are mostly of nature - birds, fish, bugs, cats and much more.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Images from charleyharperprints.com

 

 

 Purl Soho has Charlie Harper needlepoint kits!

 

 

Other fun Charlie Harper goodies:

• Color book
• Memory Game
• Nesting Blocks
• iPad skins

Christmas WIshlist: Design Books

 

All images from Amazon.com

Snowmygod or Snowmageden

 Yep, that's a tractor pulling a city bus. 

So not exactly a design post, I have to show off how freaky the state of Minnesota is. In the course of about a day we recieved and average of over 17 inches in the Twin Cities. Some parts of Minnesota reached over 20. Add 30 mile per hour winds and you get drifts that partially covered doors, cars, and most of the roads.

 Images via wcco news

Even our Metrodome suffered. The roof caved in.....

Yep, the white stuff you see on the field is snow. Looks like the Vikings won't be playing here on Monday.

Want to see it cave in?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAyLX2hY7E0


So what I have learned from this event is that Minnesotans, while they can be passive-aggressive, will come out of their cozy homes with their shovels and help you shovel your car out. It's also important to own a wool hat and scarf, a sturdy shovel and a pair of long johns. The upside of this is that I live in a climate where because everything freezes over to a white hell, I never come across large bugs or snakes.

Packaging Love

Lollia

http://www.lollialife.com



Voluspa

Honey Jar Labels

Love how these images turned out!!!

Project: Non-Profit Revamped

The Non-Profit campaign was a major undertaking and I'm sure far from over. I wanted the pieces to have an urban edge, but a little grit and earthiness to them as well. I choose brown and green as the main colors for their obvious relation to nature and added the orange and blue for contrast and for that edge. The advertisements were for an event that our garden was a part of (yes, this is a real community garden). The pieces were a postcard, poster, a promotional seed packet and a member newsletter.

 Postcard Front

 Poster

Newsletter

Seed Packet

No Coast Craft O Rama 2010

This poster designed by Sara Lintner of Too Many Suitors  is gorgeous! I'm really bumed that I had to turn it down this year but I couldn't be happier that my good friend Kelly of Table Tin will have a table!

Swatch Books

We just did a project where we were to design a series of three related paper swatch book covers. The theme was plants and the typography was to work with any supporting images.

I have to first show some gorgeous swatch books that French Paper has put together...

My three covers:

In a paper store I saw a stamp that looked like a very intricate flower. Upon closer inspection I saw it was actually a doily.  I thought this was a brilliant way to create an abstract image of a flower and then play around with size and placement. I scanned three different doilys and then did a live trace in Illustrator. There is no transparency on these, but you still get an illusion of this with the optical blending of colors. 

A Logo in the Making

As one of our last assignments, we were to create a personal logo and identity. This has been in the back of my mind for quite awhile but when it came time to start I was hitting a brick wall. What did I want to identify me? What is my personal style?

A logo should:

• Look as good in black in white as it does in color
• Look good when it's very small. Tiny details get lost.
• Be seductive - it should hold attention
• Have contrast
• Represent the business, person, whoever. It should fit the client.

So the first round of digital roughs:

I really didn't like....... So onto round 2.....

Ok, better, but still not there. The shape in the last row was starting to intrigue me. What would it be like solid?

Ok, now for the first time that day I wasn't swearing up a storm. This was getting much better.

Ta Da!!!!!