August 2, 2012
One of my guilty addictions: The weather. Raureif, a design consultancy based in Berlin, has just released an amazing app that’s getting quite a lot of press, and rightfully so—Partly Cloudy may be the most beautiful and unconventional weather app ever made. It reconfigures the visual language we are used to in identifying weather, and makes it more precise and beautiful. Totally worth it.
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July 19, 2012
Axel von Friesen and Petter Törnqvist make up the Swedish design studio 1:2:3. Their projects range from video to books to paintings (as evidenced by the beautiful one pictured above). Spend some time on their site to get the full effect.
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June 27, 2012
Let’s get this giveaway extravaganza kicked off right, shall we!?
Brainstorm – ‘Planets Poster’
The amazing duo Brainstorm from Portsmouth, who recently teamed up with another amazing duo we all know so well, has generously donated one of their kickass screen prints! The print is signed & stamped by Brainstorm and at 16 x 20 it will fit most standard frames.
Carolin Harris – Stick Stack
Our very own (we’re lucky to have one!) Carolin Harris has graciously offered her latest screenprinted poster ‘Stick Stack’. This poster is rad, people. (Pro tip: rollover Carolin’s author tag on her posts to see a sneak peak of her printing the poster!)
Bound Custom Journals – Designer Camouflage Journal
Finally, another good citizen of OK Greatland, Michael Faber & his team at Bound Custom Journals has donated one of their limited edition journals. Details from Michael: A Bound “Uncustom” Journal from the folks at http://boundforanything.com. The Designer Camouflage edition is a short-run (only about 30 made) of memo notebooks with alternating dot grid and lined pages within. And we’ll throw in a sticker. And maybe some other Bound loot, too. YOU NEVER KNOW.
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A HUGE THANKS goes out to everyone that donated to our first giveaway pack. Y’all are about as awesome as a bloomin’ onion.
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TO ENTER TO WIN TO BECOME HAPPY
You may enter all three giveaway contests using three different methods. If you enter using all three methods below, you will be entered into this giveaway a total of three times. That’s math & that’s awesome.
UPDATE – Please enter via twitter & facebook while we fix our dang commenting system. Thank you! Commenting is back up & running!
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Submissions close for Giveaway #1 on Wednesday, July 4th.
Good luck & remember Giveaway #2 kicks off tomorrow!
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June 20, 2012
Derrick Castle is a talented illustrator from Nashville TN. I stumbled across Derrick’s work on dribbble and really liked his tattoo infused illustration style. Wood block carvings are tight. You can get your hands on his prints at his etsy store or wear his art at big cartel.
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June 19, 2012
Excellent geometric illustrations in the personal portfolio of Spanish designer/illustrator Maria Corte. I love the idea of being so free flowing within such a structured style.
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June 15, 2012
A/ I really need everyone on the East Coast to go see this.
B/ “Co-organized by Andrew Blauvelt of the Walker Art Center and Ellen Lupton of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Graphic Design—Now in Production is the single largest exhibition of contemporary graphic design to take place in the United States in over 15 years.”
C/ Imagine being tasked (BY THE WALKER!!) to create an identity system and exhibit space for this. No big deal right?
Project Projects does it, again. They continue to create beautiful, meaningful, time-sensitive but also timeless work that strikes by simplicity and conceptual strength, by printed matter and exhibition design. Just incredible (and rad).
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June 4, 2012
This past Friday was special for all of us here in Portsmouth, NH. It marked the first opening of the Seed & Pulp show for Store Gallery at 3S Artspace. Guest curated by my main man, Dylan Haigh – it brought together printmakers from around the world to show off the hand-touched medium. It took us (note: when I use the word “us” I really mean Dylan and the fantastic group of super fine volunteers, board members and partners at 3S – I just did a mediocre job of adding my unwanted opinion here and there) a couple of months of blood, sweat and freak outs to get this off the ground and ready for the First Friday Art walk in town.
To our delight and surprise, people (over 600 of them) really came out in full force to see the new space and the work. We opened at 5pm and had a continuos stream of people walking in and out, purchased prints in hand. I think one of the biggest successes of the night was the fact that people had a chance to really hang. They could walk through and look at everything on the walls and then sit outside and chat about art, Portsmouth, music, 3S, summertime, whatever. I’ve been to a fair share of art openings and my biggest complaint is always the fact that I get all dressed up and when I get there, I walk in and walk out which – all in all, takes only about 15 minutes. It’s often the art that has me bored or the discouraging fact that I can’t actually purchase anything and bring it home. A printmaking show with more accessible prices (most were in the range of $25-$75) solves that problem for sure.
For me, it was a great shift in perspective. Portsmouth is small town on the scale of my own life experience. Seed & Pulp reminded me that even in a small town, you can’t know everything and everyone. You can always learn something from and be inspired by someone new. There were so many cool looking people that I had never seen in town before! So many lucite eye glasses that I wanted! Seed & Pulp gave us all a night to think and talk about really important things like art, community and…corpse paint. Really, at one point I do remember Dylan’s mom telling us that her favorite piece was Caitlin Gallupe’s “Winter Solstice Pizza Party” (see below) and Dylan tried to explain that the face paint wasn’t KISS related. See, everyone got a valuable education. More importantly, they came, they bought, they got excited. That’s really all we could have hoped for.
If you don’t live in New England, don’t worry. What hasn’t already sold out is still available for purchase online at the 3S store.
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June 1, 2012
Deutsche & Japaner produce an amazing array of beautifully conceptual and immaculately executed work. Posters, books, records, online, editorial, products—RAD. I’m a little green with envy (it’s a happy green, don’t worry).
Great clients + great designers + in my homecountry. YAY DEUTSCHLAND!
Happy Friday, friends. Read the rest of this entry »
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May 25, 2012
Illustrator and owner of Birdcage Bottom Books J.T. Yost and I go waaaaay back. We spent many-a-night in Austin belting out songs of woe as part of Earl Bible and His Stories (yeah that’s right, a myspace link… you love it) back in ’99, and drank whiskey out of mayonnaise jars while busting out rhymes as part of acclaimed freestyle rap ensemble Fresh Animals. These days, JT is hard at work cranking out comics, screen printing, painting, and being a dad. And just this week he announced his Kickstarter-backed project DIGESTATE: A Food and Eating Themed Comic Anthology.
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May 17, 2012
A short post today, but that’s only because I think these posters from Portugal’s Atelier Martino & Jaña deserve the spotlight. So good.
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