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There are so many reasons to celebrate this week. Our team finalized the details and signed the contract for our second Design*Sponge Book with Artisan (yay!), our very own Silka is getting married this weekend (double yay!) and one of my favorite artists, Debbie Carlos, just released a new set of prints and a gorgeous guest print by Breanna Musgrove of Scout and Catalogue. While Silka’s big day is the main reason I’m happy this week, I’m also loving these incredible new posters from Debbie and Breanna. The guest piece from Breanna is a gorgeous large-scale ode to marbling and the stone pieces from Debbie were inspired by stone slabs found on the streets of Mexico city. I love all of the swirling pattern happening here- it’s a great way to bring some detail to your walls without going crazy with an entire wallpapered pattern. Click here to check out both and pick up your own copies at Debbie’s online shop. Have a wonderful weekend and we’ll see you on Monday! xo, grace

Below is a summary of this week’s highlights:

• Fall Obsessions: The Eyes Have It, Max’s Fall Obsessions
• Must Read: Plaid At Home: 15 Ways to Bring The Pattern Inside, Inspired by Fall Fashion: 20 Pink Finds for the Home
• Biz Ladies: Fast Food Marketing for Your Biz
  
• Biz Ladies Profile: Jen Lee Koss and Kena Paranjape of BRIKA
  
• City Guide: Edmonton, Alberta
• Sneak Peeks: A South Carolina home filled with color and pattern, A Parisian Apartment with a Scandinavian Twist
  
• Living In: The Women
  
• In the Kitchen:
  
• Before & After: A Mismatched 1950s Bathroom Gets Simplified, A Kitchen is Totally Transformed with a Few Simple Steps
  
• DIY Projects: DIY Plaid Book Jacket, Fall Nail Art DIY with Jessica Washick
• Artwork: Clare Grill
  
• Misc.: Honeycomb Studio, Fair Isle for the Floor, 10 Fantastically Styled Coffee Tables, Last Gasp of Summer: Nautical Pillows, Swift and Roe, Wary Meyers Candles, 5 Must-Have Decorating Apps, Gem & Mineral 2014 Calendar, How to Never Again Lose Your Keys – The Landing Strip
  

For their September campaign, Charity: Water commissioned several designers to create a poster design inspired by India. 100% of the profits from the poster sales will go towards providing clean water for 100 villages in Orissa, India. You can check out all of the designs and support the cause right here.

It might be a tad early to start discussing 2014 calendars, but that doesn’t stop me from adding them to my wishlist. This beautiful watercolor calendar is from California’s Rocket Ink. From soft pastel minerals to bold gemstones illustrated in vibrant pinks, this 11″ x 14″ calendar is pretty enough to frame, but functional enough for everyday around-the-house use. Click here to check it out in more detail and to place an order ($28). xo, grace

I received this little guy in the mail from Projecteo and am loving him so far! Projecteo takes your Instagram pictures and displays them in a (mini) version of an old-school projector.

The Projecteo team does this by developing your Instagrams on to a single frame of 35mm Kodak film which they cut and set into a custom wheel. Each wheel holds nine images. My Projecteo is so stinking cute! I think I might have to give this guy a name;) Ideas?

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This fun packaging project was designed by Lacy Kuhn for Beehive Honey Squares, while a student at Western Washington University. For more from Lacy, check out her portfolio right here.

I’m loving the playful illustration style of Michéle Brummer Everett.

 

O Follow hoje ganha uma nova colaboradora, a Jessica Bueno! A Jessica trabalha com conteúdo, planejamento e gerência de projetos. Adora fotografia analógica, tatuagens, e cachorros – muitos cachorros, é mãe de seis! Em seu tempo livre adora recriar projetos e receitas do pinterest, que quase nunca dão certo. Seja bem vinda, Jessica!  

Ruben Ireland é um artista britânico de 25 anos que mistura técnicas como ilustração, arte digital e manipulação de imagens. Entre seus materiais preferidos estão tinta acrílica, canetas, papéis sujos e até mesmo comida. Tudo isso sem deixar de recorrer a alguma tecnologia, como photoshop e a famosa wacom table.

Além da técnica, Ireland é reconhecido pelo seu estilo sombrio – quase assustador. Ele gosta de exagerar em alguns pontos de seu desenho, como olhos ou cabeças desproporcionalmente maiores, para que o espectador tenha a sensação de que seus personagens não pertencem ao nosso mundo e muito provavelmente tenham vindo do mundo dos sonhos.

Quase sempre retrata figuras femininas, adicionando elementos animais a suas personagems como chifres, asas de insetos, lobos e outros animais. Ele explica essa escolha com a expressão “animals associated with the darker side of the moon” (animais associados com o lado mais escuro da lua).

Para saber mais: Behance, Fanpage, Postagens no Tumblr.

Para ter em casa: Urban Arts (Brasil), Society6.

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Moda e comida pode sim ser uma boa mistura. Vide a série “Wearable Foods”  designer coreana Yeonju Sung que criou vestidos com frutas, verduras, carnes e outros alimentos, gerando assim diversas texturas e cores.

Olha só alguns trabalhos dela:

 Apetitosamente fashion

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Mirim Seo created this beautiful project while a student at Tyler School of Art. S.E.W., which stands for Saving Endangered Wildlife, is a game that teaches kids hand-sewing techniques while also learning about endangered species in the rainforest.

 

For the month of August, a series of guest posters will be filling in on DWL with daily posts. Today’s posts come to you from illustrator Lydia Nichols For more from Lydia, be sure to  follow her on Twitter and Dribble. Enjoy!

The first time I saw the work of Coles Phillips as an illustration undergraduate, everything I thought about illustration changed. Being in a very traditional painting-oriented program, I was used to feasting of beautiful works on art that were technically stunning, but sometimes lacked that little something to put it over the edge. Born in 1880, Phillips’ work felt fresh and contemporary in spite of being created nearly a hundred years prior. Best know for his “fadeaway girl,” Phillips’ mastery of negative space, use of pattern, and sophisticated color palette still stand the test of time.

His cleverness resulted in more than just beautiful imagery—it allowed magazines like Life to save money. At a time when full color was becoming all the rage—and quite the expensive—Phillips was creating equally alluring images using fairly limited palettes. I love when parameters can bring about such amazing solutions!

I’ve always liked that aspect of image making—it can be a visual challenge, a puzzle of shape, color, and space. Many have since followed in Phillips’ footsteps and I thought it would be fun to take a look at how these same principals are in use today.

 

STERLING HUNDLEY

Another personal long-time favorite, Sterling Hundley paints and composes his pieces in unexpected ways. There’s always another layer to his work or an unusual, forced perspective. It always takes a moment to realize what you’re seeing isn’t exactly what you thought it was.

 

MALIKA FAVRE

French “designer led” illustrator Malika Favre has a far more graphic approach. The way her shapes fit together is simply masterful!

 

JAMES BOAST

 

Like Favre, James Boast has bold, shape-driven style accentuated by subtle textures. This piece in particular exemplifies how little information actually needs to be shown in order to communicate an idea. It reads almost instantaneously even though we don’t actually see much of the soccer player’s body.

 

Roman Muradov

What I love about this piece is how nearly unexpected the “fadeaway” aspect is—Roman Muradov balances his shapes and colors in just such a way, you almost don’t even notice his excellent use of negative space.

 

For the month of August, a series of guest posters will be filling in on DWL with daily posts. Today’s posts come to you from Gerren Lamson of Creative Market. For more from Gerren, be sure to check out his shop and follow him on Twitter. Enjoy!

I’m a huge fan of both the Art Nouveau and Art Deco movements respectively. I love discovering visual inspiration gems from these movements because they usually exude a delicate balance between geometric structure and ornate, organic embellishment. Nouveau pieces lean towards the ornate side, and Deco pieces lean towards structural side. Both movements offer a rich pool of visual inspiration that could potentially inspire and inform our design work today.

Art Nouveau (1880 — 1910) was a reaction to academic art through the use of organic forms, curved lines, and unity with the natural environment. Advocates of Art Nouveau described it as a ‘total style’ and a ‘way of life’ — and people embraced it by bringing this decorative style into their households and supporting it in the fine arts as well.

Art Deco (1925 — 1940) was revealed during (and named after) the Internationale des Arts Decoratifs held in Paris in 1925. It can be summarized as applied decoration to geometric, streamline structure, and contains within it the idea of decadence and opulence in both visuals and lifestyle.

Why Art Nouveau & Art Deco?
In sharing a quick round-up of inspiring images of these art movements, I’m very curious as to what it may look like for designers to revive and retrofit some of the creative thinking from these periods in response to the minimal, modern design aesthetic that’s prevalent right now. And, while I’m leaning heavily towards print and illustration samples below, there is a lot of inspiration to gather from architecture, jewelry, furniture and other art mediums too. Go exploring!

ART NOUVEAU Inspiration

Théophile Steinlen

Hector Guimard

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Alphonse Mucha

Walter Crane

Louis Majorelle

ART DECO Inspiration

George Barbier

Works Progress Administration (WPA ~ Various Artists)

Various Architecture

John Gabriel Beckman

Need resources to design in these styles?
Creative Market has a growing number of design assets that could help you sprinkle these distinct visual styles into your work. Currently, we’ve got some sweet resources for the Art Deco style.

Art Deco Backgrounds and Frames

Decode Font Family

Art Deco Badges

Warsawa Deco Font

Art Deco Seamless Patterns

The Bandoengsche

 

 

 

On occasion as a blogger I get to review products and have the incredible chance to write articles for other websites. A few months ago I was given the opportunity to do a review for a new site called, Eyeist over on photo.net. I had never heard of Eyeist before but after my thirty minute interactive session with the founder, Allegra Wilde I was blown away. Did you know that if you are a budding  photographer you can have your work reviewed and critiqued by top players in the world of photography? I had no clue...I loved the process and came away with this thirty image portfolio and an armload of ideas on how to improve my work. I wanted to share this one with you guys because it was just that good! You can read my full experience over on photo.net (here)! 

I know many of you are photographers - what are things that you have done to improve your skill and eye for capturing beauty, would you ever consider getting an online review of your work?

Gosta de ler? Preparamos uma lista com alguns links legais para você se inspirar com as palavras!

- Confeitaria Mag: A Confeitaria é uma revista independente sobre literatura, comportamento, artes e cultura, formada por um coletivo de autores de lugares, formações e interesses diversos, mas com um denominador em comum: o amor pela linguagem e pela comunicação, especialmente a escrita.

-Já Matei por Menos: Juliana Cunha é repórter e tradutora freelancer. Ela tem o blog Já Matei por Menos desde 2007, escreve textos para Folha de S.Paulo, Revista Piauí e já colaborou com outros veículos, além de ter 2 ótimos livros publicados.

-Revista Bula: Filmes, livros, música, cultura. Tudo isso e muito mais, você vai encontrar na Revista Bula que traz assuntos ótimos sobre literatura e jornalismo cultural.

-Loja de Histórias: Pedro Fonseca já apareceu algumas vezes por aqui. Ele é autor da Loja de Histórias: você envia uma foto e ele escreve um texto, ficcional, sobre a sua imagem, criando uma linda história.

-A Pattern a Day: A Ana fala (e como fala bem!) em seu blog sobre tudo o que ela ama. O assunto pode ser gastronomia, design, estilo, viagens, emoções. Tudo sempre acompanhado de ótimos e sensíveis textos.

-Obvious: Arte, arquitectura, música, fotografia, cinema, design ou qualquer outro assunto para um olhar mais demorado.

-Ansiamente: Carmen Guerreiro é jornalista e fala sobre suas ansiedades no seu blog, o Ansiamente. Com seus textos, quer também estimular reflexões. Sua causa não é a paz mundial. É o bom senso universal – mais utópico ainda, hein?

- Think Olga: Juliana de Faria é jornalista. Com o tempo, descobriu que gostava mais de falar sobre a mulher que veste a roupa do que sobre a roupa que veste a mulher. O seu blog Think Olga é dedicado a elevar o nível da discussão sobre feminilidade nos dias de hoje.

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I think Melbourne smells like coffee.
There is even a coffee expo. I got involved in it too – Me and two more artists had to decorate the coffee machines for an upcoming auction. If you know anyone planning to open a cafe in Australia – tell them to come and have a look on those Italian (of course!) machines.
This was one of the sketches – coffee monster, but together with the client we came up with another idea.

After that there was some stencil cutting.

And spray painting in the basement.

And more stencils.

And markers.

The result! Well, it is jut front panel, hope to get the picture of the whole machine.

And the monster? It became a greeting card!

“Um projeto que preenchesse a lacuna entre as grandes câmeras com grande qualidade de imagem e câmeras de smartphones com qualidade / controle limitado.” Essa foi a ideia que o  designer sueco Vincent Sall se baseou para criar a câmera-conceito “Leica X3 Monocle”.

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Everybody who knows me knows how much I love to throw parties. Like, love. And by party, I don’t mean sissy Lindsay Lohan-style. When I throw a party, I go hard. Really hard. Like, paper invitations, cheese plates, and crudités kind of hard. Sometimes there’s even a theme—I don’t mess around. This is why, when I stumbled upon Yellow Owl Workshop’s booth at this year’s National Stationery Show, I fell head-over-heels for their new paper party kits. These little all-in-ones have everything: invites, envelopes, favor bags, and stickers that double as seals for the envelopes and favor bags. With kits for everyday parties and special holidays, the awesome folks at Yellow Owl have taken the guesswork out of planning, so you can focus on what’s really important: getting down. Check out all of the kits and links to purchase them after the jump! —Max

Above image: The Rainbow Heart Kit and The Animal Holiday Kit

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For the month of August, a series of guest posters will be filling in on DWL with daily posts. Today’s posts come to you from Lindsay Stetson Thompson of MStetson. For more from Lindsay, be sure to follow her on Twitter. Enjoy!

Island Grown Schools is a Martha’s Vineyard-based non-profit and a farm-to-school program. Bluerock Design Co. created an approachable, yet established logo with the carrot icon rooted deep within the community and non-profit’s names. The project includes the stationery package and merchandise (totes, aprons, hats, and apparel) in addition to an annual report and the website design and development.

  

For the month of August, a series of guest posters will be fill­ing in on DWL with daily posts. This week’s posts come to you from the tal­ented folks of Studio 254: designer and illus­tra­tor Will Bryant, illus­tra­tor and edu­ca­tor Kate Bingaman-Burt,  designer Clifton Burt, designer Tina Snow Le and artist, designer and edu­ca­tor Jason Sturgill. Enjoy!

Vintage children’s books are a constant source of inspiration for me. I love discovering the works of sometimes overlooked illustrators.

Dahlov Ipcar is one of those people for me.

I discovered her work at a thrift store through her book “The Cat at Night”. I especially love my original scholastic paperback version with the saturated colors on the construction like paper.

 

I predict that she will see a similar wave of attention that Charley Harper received after it was long overdue.

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sculpture by olga ziemska

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installations by cornelia konrads

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Getting a peek into an artist’s sketchbook is oftentimes like getting to a glimpse into his or her mind. Filled with unfinished pieces, doodles, and ideas, they often act as a portrait of their creator—or a look into their own imagined worlds. Stephanie Graegin, a Brooklyn-based children’s illustrator, is no stranger to different worlds: her work often depicts a fantasy realm in which animals speak like people and take part in the many of the same activities (like riding the subway!). Stylistically, her illustrations are not just fantastical, but cute as a button, with purposeful pencil strokes and a warm autumnal palette. Her sketchbooks, filled with tiny pencil-drawn vignettes, carry much of the same picture-perfection as her finished works. Each drawing seems to have been crafted with the same consideration and the same amount of love, so much so that the characters inhabiting them appear ready to spring to life on the page. Check out the rest of Stephanie’s sketchbook pages and her own words about sketchbook keeping after the jump! —Max

Above image: A sampling of Stephanie’s work.

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For the month of August, a series of guest posters will be filling in on DWL with daily posts. This week’s posts come to you from the talented folks of Studio 254: designer and illustrator Will Bryant, illustrator and educator Kate Bingaman-Burt,  designer Clifton Burt, designer Tina Snow Le and artist, designer and educator Jason Sturgill. Enjoy!

Clara von Zweigberk makes really lovely things. Seriously. Her wonderful color palette splashes across projects through art direction, set design, and product design. I especially enjoy her work for HAY.

Recém formada em comunicação social e design gráfico, Rachel Krueger criou uma série de posters inspirados em algumas famosas frases das animações da Pixar. A coleção de suas favoritas viraram lindas ilustrações tipográficas. Demais!

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In line with the treehouse post earlier this week, I found a little treehouse gem located in Burlingame, California… not too far from where I live. The treehouse is available to rent here. Oh my goodness… so so lovely!

I can just imagine sitting here with my morning tea and oats (while reading blogs, of course!).

photos by alex amend. found via tiny houses swoon

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“Eu vejo a vida como algo a ser curioso sobre, não algo que eu preciso de respostas para…”

O autor da frase acima é o artista e entertainer conhecido pela alcunha de Peter Pink, que ganhou notabilidade mundo afora graças a seus vegetais pra lá de desinibidos e atrevidos.

O que começou como uma bem humorada intervenção em frente a uma loja do McDonald’s, virou uma série que aborda questões sociais, legados históricos ou mesmo filosofias existencialistas – sempre do ponto de vista de batatas ou pepinos de óculos escuros.

Um aspecto intrigante do projeto é a sua natureza efêmera: a comida está viva, afinal seu estado é de constante e consistente mudança, o que reforça a sua relação com a humanidade.

Alberto Seveso, ilustrador e designer gráfico italiano, já apareceu em nosso post no Blog da Coral, com suas fotografias hipnotizadoras em altíssima velocidade, que captavam o momento exato quando a tinta despejada caia na água.

Hoje é a vez de Mark Mawsom, fotógrafo internacional famoso por suas imagens sobre moda e estilo de vida, sua série intitulada Aqueous, o fez ganhar todos os holofotes nos últimos tempos.

As fotografias são tão coloridas e impressionantes que foram projetadas nas paredes do Palácio de Buckingham no show de Paul McCartney durante o Jubileu da Rainha. Mark é representado por várias galerias e seu trabalho pessoal está em muitas coleções particulares em todo o mundo. Reconhecimento totalmente merecido, não? Lindo!

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Já ouviram falar do Kite? O Kite Mosquito Patch é um projeto que está sendo financiado por meio de crowdfunding no site indiegogo, prestes a ser lançado no mercado. O adesivo é extremamente poderoso e possui uma composição atóxica que permite que as pessoas “passem” desapercebidas pelos mosquitos em até 48 horas.

Isso significa que dengue, malária e outras doenças causadas através de picadas, podem ser diminuídas (e até extintas) por um simples patch. A ideia é ir além,  e com o financiamento, fornecer o Kite para países em desenvolvimento. Além do produto ser simples e genial, tem um design colorido e funcional. Adoramos!

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I’m loving this beautiful series by Cosmosnail that depicts solitude in various environments. Get a closer look at the Alone series on Behance.

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