minakani is the parisian designing duo of cécile figuette & frédéric bonnin. they recently released a beautiful series of wallpaper that have been acting as my desktop wallpaper for days. i love the hand-drawn feel of them, and the whimsical way those giant birds fill the wall (above). it’s delightful to see the way wallpapers…
lisa rupp is a fantastic surface pattern designed who recently launched a new portfolio website full of beautiful illustrations. i’m always taken with her colorful floral patterns, but i’m also loving her new downloadable calendars. if you want to receive the free downloadable calendar you can sign up for lisa’s newsletter on her site and…
good morning! i didn’t get a chance to talk about sarah’s guest posts from yesterday so i wanted to add them in with her content from today. yesterday, in case you missed it (or couldn’t get the site to load), sarah posted a great roundup of artists’ sketchbooks. i discovered some new artists i didn’t…
When it comes to hand-drawn letters, I can’t forget to mention calligraphers: Jenna Hein Betsy Dunlap: blog | site (betsy’s one of the partners at hello handmade) Maybelle Imasa-Stukuls Crystal Kluge: portfolio | blog Danae Hernandez: etsy shop Katy from Kis for Calligraphy
today’s design guides are all about sunny florida, so today we’re wrapping things up with a guide to palm beach and west palm beach written by lorrie browne of my design secrets. lorrie’s guide includes museums, shops, restaurants and some great local haunts so i hope you’ll enjoy lorrie’s guide! [thanks to lorrie for her…
well, today we’re still going through some growing pains with the new server, but i hope to have all the kinks worked out by the end of the week. so thank you for putting up with the slow loading until we find the right sized package to handle traffic. i thought we had enough, but…
lizzie thomas is a newly graduated paper artist based in brighton. her incredible paper cutting and woodwork is inspired by the use of wood and paper in japanese spiritual life. lizzie sent over some of her current work and i was totally blown away so i couldn’t resist sharing these pieces today. want to see…
caroline saul is an up-and-coming design/maker from the uk who works primarly with recycled plastic milk bottles to create this colorful sculptural vessels. she recycles the milk bottles to create new sheets of plastic that she then uses to create her pieces. i love how delicate everything looks, but knowing that it’s actually made from…
on cold days like today i always love soft, faded photographs- they remind me of summer and warm afternoons reading in the park. these photos are from matt schwartz of she hit pause studios and are available on matt’s e-commerce site for $65 right here. [via d*s reader, rose. thanks, rose!]
yesterday my friend bryan was in town and we spent the better part of the afternoon watching seriously immature youtube videos like the cinnamon challenge and kittens book. but then he pointed me in the direction of this incredible stop motion video by israeli artist, oren lavi. whether you listen with or without sound, this…
One of the best places to find hand-drawn type is inside an artist’s sketchbook. Here’s a few snoop through: from the do not leave unattended project book by it’s cover has a collection of sketch books, including these pages by chad kouri Jahan Gerrard Ted McGrath CLICK HERE to see the rest of the sketchbooks…
when i first emailed tonje holand of the stationery line darling clementine little did i know what a great home she had – in fact so awesome that it was recently featured in the sunday supplement of norway’s national newspaper. luckily tonje and photographer nina ruud/dagbladet were willing to share the images with us. you…
portland, oregon has some of the best shops around. one of those is LIFE + LIMB, an indoor plant and modern home accessories shop run by graphic design trained molly quan. luckily for those of us not in portland, molly just opened an online shop, but today is all about her home. i’m just bummed…
as an avid traveler myself, it made me smile do hear wedding and event coordinator wanwisa posner describe her home as “modern meets well-traveled eclecticism.” i love the way she and her husband have incorporated mementos from foreign places as a reminder of their travels into their daily living. “we like clean and modern lines…
one of the many sad things about domino closing is that content due for later issues won’t be appearing. i realized this weekend that my last under $100 column for domino’s website won’t be running so i decided to code it to run here instead. no use in not sharing fun budget-friendly design, right? so…
today i’m excited to welcome sarah miller to the d*s guest blog! sarah is a cincinnati based designer and professor of digital design at the university of cincinnati. she has her own design business, miller cormier, but also runs a fabulous blog called oatmeal & cinnamon. this week sarah will be posting about some of…
I thought I would start by sharing a list of artists, illustrators, designers, etc who use hand-lettering in one form or another in their work. There are so many to choose from, I can’t possibly mention everyone, so I picked the ones I thought you (the d*s readers) would like: Marian Bantjes Robert Ryan Jessica…
Before I get started on this (super-duper exciting opportunity to) guest blog, I wanted to introduce myself. I’m a Cincinnati based designer and an adjunct professor in digital design at the University of Cincinnati. Last spring when I was starting-up my design business, Miller Cormier, I wanted a place to collect and store some research…
i’m under the weather today so i’m going to head out a bit early and get some rest so i can come back monday with a clear head. right now it feels like the top half of my brain is living on a cloud somewhere far away from the rest of me. but i wanted…
