Good, fun art & design!
If you are in the US, I hope you are outside somewhere looking up at the sky this fourth of July!
This print, called Grande Finale, is basically sold out over at 20×200, a web-site that brings art to little people like you & me (the smallest size is printed in a set of 200 and costs only $20, hence the web-site’s name). Also, they usually have new prints every week.
Happy fireworks!
Stickers and Donuts is taking a little break for Fourth of July, but I’ll be back full-force at the end of the next week with delightful and lovely things. Thought I can’t promise I won’t post from the road.
So, happy fourth! Check out Urban Outfitter’s campaign blog, which is stocked full of beautiful election & political graphics like the one above from Scott Hansen at ISO50. All proceeds from the purchase of the above print go to Obama’s campaign.
I immediately starred this post from SwissMiss when I saw it in Google Reader earlier this week. Then, it came up again at Nylon’s blog, and now, I can no longer resist a re-posting.
Fernando Brizio has created “renewable clothing” for a show on “design in a fast-changing society.” Not only are these pieces different every time you wear them, but they actually encourage you to make an (organized) mess of yourself.
“By placing colored felt-tip pens in the pockets of the dress its appearance changes over time. Within an hour to one and a half hours the colored ink bleeds into the fabric and creates a one-off design for each occasion. The owner can then clean the dress and color it in a different way for each time they wear it” (designboom.com).
I found the above and below images as I was reading an article about the declining birth rate in Europe and America in the New York Times (yes, I have a wide range of interests…).
They’re by Edward Del Rosario, a Brooklyn-based artist whose trademark seems to be scenes of distance and loneliness. Some of his paintings are a little scary and make me want to run for cover in something cuter, but I really do like these two from the NY Times.
The other night I had a dream that The Sartorialist took a picture of me. I was very excited, but then I realized I was wearing an ugly outfit, and I got worried that he’d post it as an example of what not to wear. Sometimes, I am sad at The Sartorialist because almost every photographed female is skinny and I think all sizes of people can put together smashing outfits!
But mostly, I go to The Satorialist for sexy men. Yes, I said it. I like guys who can put together outfits. Esp with bright colors. Forget George Clooney! Okay, I take that back. I love George Clooney. And he wears nice suits. But these well-dressed men range from adorable to hot, don’t they?
I suppose I am jealous of the men & women of The Satorialist, because I can put together some eye-catching outfits, but they just never seem very professional, at least compared to these guys!
So, I just got the newest issue of PRINT magazine in my mailbox (which is totally dedicated to typography, yay), and on page 14 I found TypeIsArt.com. (You know, so if I’m tired of Bembo’s Zoo, making fonts free online, and creating word clouds, then I have something else to do.) Type is Art states that:
“All letterforms are composed of 21 distinct parts. Most commonly these parts combine to form the characters of our alphabet. Type is Art allows for the experimentation of forms beyond this typical character set.”
You can see these “distinct parts” on the above poster from the Type is Art web-page.
Anyway, the best part of Type is Art is that you can create your own art online, for free! You can twist and turn letters and make them bigger and smaller. Most importantly, you can waste hours of what should be “work time.” And, really, that’s what the internet is for, isn’t it?
Click more to see my own Type is Art creation!
Fruits, veggies, and sweets with faces sit on these colorful cards, ready to remind you of your favorite receipe! Look at that donut in purple! These little dudes are $6 at My Zoetrope’s Etsy Store. How’s that for Donut of the Week?!
Cherryflava recently posted about Ikea’s “out of the box” advertising methods. How cool is this?
This “box” was placed in Brookyln and filled with furniture (elegently placed, of course, despite the small space… most of us NYC-ites like to say we “live in a box”) for Ikea’s grand opening.
Cherryflava also shows off another Ikea stunt where balconies were made to look like boxes for storage.
Since I’m having a typographically-oriented day, I’ll just add that the August edition of PRINT Magazine is dedicated to type and form.
I especially like this article, availible online, called “Good Type Gone Bad” about typography meant for one thing being used (unsuccessfully) for something totally different.
I cannot stop playing on Wordle, a site that lets you use delicious tags or text to create an artsy word cloud like one above made with my delicious tags (in fact, you can put in anyone’s delicious user name to create a word cloud). The more times a word appears, the bigger it is (look how big the word “design” is!). You can change the font, colors, orientation of text, etc.
The site is free, and you don’t even need to sign up!
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Roar! Check out Bembo’s Zoo for an ABC’s worth of animals made out of the letters that spell their name! I guess I’m on a typography kick today.
(A lion above and a turtle after the jump, but visit the web-site for the full effect of the letters moving around to create the animal!) Read the rest of this entry »
Photo: Mark Renders/Getty Images, from NY Daily News
The NY Daily News has a great collection of photos from this weekend’s annual sea sculpture contest in Belgium.
Stickers & Donuts is going to post a cool, crafty, pretty, or yummy donut EVERY WEEK! Aren’t you looking forward to that?!
The Donut(s) of the Week are from Yellow Label. They’re colorful, you can chew on them (if you are a baby, preferably) and because they are knit, they are zero calories! If donuts aren’t your thing, you can always get some knit cookies.
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This week on the Storque’s News from the Craft + Style Blogosphere, A Print-a-Day’s terrariums were mentioned (Stickers & Donuts was mentioned last week concerning our Renegade Craft Fair Prints post!).
Anyway, back to terrariums. Aren’t these cute? I also love A Print-a-Day’s downloads section. I’m definitely going to be coming back for more!
Check out this article from the New York Times about designing your own font online! The best part? The service, run by font giant FontShop, is FREE (to create and use as an actual font on your Mac or PC) and you can look at tons of cool, new creations in the gallery. As soon as I use it, I’ll be sure to post a comprehensive review!
Not ready to make your own font? Download free fonts at one of my favorite font web-pages, or brush up (ie learns lots of things you never knew) on your typography skills with these fun, detail-oriented lessons on quite a pretty little web-site. If you are a typography nut like me, you can also check out all of the Stickers & Donuts posts related to typography.
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