Check out these incredibly cool visual interpretations of punctuation from Punc’t: Putting Punctuation in its Place. (Above: Slash, Semi-Colin, Colin)
Every year during this joyous season (National Poetry Month, of course), poets.org offers a free poetry poster designed by a graphic artist. I am particularly in love with the 2006 poster (above), but I order my free poster every year no matter the design.
“April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of dead land.” -TS Eliot
(Old posters can be purchased for $5 unless they are sold out, but they can always be clicked on and printed, so at least you can have a postcard or paper-sized rendition.) PS: If you want free printable posters with complete poems, click here.
This graphic designer seems to make a business card every time he changes locations. In fact, he recognizes his own obsessive card creation habits (okay, there are only four, but still) because he lists his reasons for creating each card (such as “people assuming I’m in the navy,” top left). (more…)
I love Esty, and I love these hand cut-out donut stickers with little faces on a splash of frosting. (more…)
The French Paper Company makes handfuls of colorful paper that would make any scrapbooker / cardmaker / colorliker jealous. I especially like the cool designs in the Pop-Ink Patter-Paper line. (They’ve got plenty of bright & neutral plain papers, too.) (more…)
KNOCK KNOCK is a new(ish) design company that makes both funny and useful pads, stickies, folders, & more. I happen to think the pads are a great example of design at its best: organized, functional, and aesthetically pleasing.
As a former psych student and a mental illness knowledge bank, I happen to love the “Mood Tracker” pad (above). In fact, why not throw some good design and humor into shitty situations? I know the pad is glib, but shrinks often have patients with depression or bipolar disorder track their moods, but usually on a crappy, black and white, poorly designed charts copied from the middle of a textbook. Knock Knock’s well-designed, simple, colorful and easy-to-read pads show that pretty things can also be useful and useful things don’t have to be ugly. (more…)
100 for $3
or 500 for $9 ***
DELARGE offers printable stickers (made to print on specific Avery paper sizes, a very convenient feature), downloadable posters, fonts, and wallpaper all for free. It’s a more urban feel than I usually go for in my graphic selections, but it’s well done and I don’t know about you, but I once spent two days trying to track down some classic “HELLO my name is” stickers from places like Staples, but it was DELARGE who offered up the goods in the end. (more…)
Whether or not MPBooks knew of the pun when creating their Novella Series, these little books really do show off The Art — graphically speaking — of the Novella. Each book contains only three colors (one of them very bright, the other two being black and white), one font (all caps), and no games, these novellas mean what they say and say what they mean. How perfect to select such a straightforward cover for such a (well, compared to the novel) short form. ($9 on Amazon.com or the MPBooks website)
