My in-laws gave me an Amazon gift card for my birthday (yeah, they rock). I planned to spend it on some kind of paper craft book, but everything out there was too specific, or childish, or boring. Then yesterday A. pointed me towards Papercraft: Design and Art with Paper and I freaked out a little. Actually, I should say that A. Pointed me toward this post on Daily Icon, which has a lot of amazing images from inside the book. It’s not due to come out until September 9th, but you can … Read more »
Yasmine may not actually be a posting a print a day lately, but she is CRANKIN’ on this magazine. Published monthly? Seriously? I know it’s a pdf publication but that’s still ambitious. I wonder how long she can keep it up. I probably would have folded by now.
Issue 2 is a little heavy on the vintage-inspired photography, but it also has some neat features, like interviews with two 15-year-old artists (one of whom is a Biz Miss in Liberia — go Lovetta!) and a funny article … Read more »
It’s been way too long since I posted last, I know. We adopted a dog last week and it’s craft fair season again, so what little work I’ve been able to accomplish has gone exclusively towards getting ready for last weekend’s Indie Mart, and this coming weekend’s Unique Los Angeles. Still, I’m able to read the interwebs a little during meals, and yesterday at lunch I read Hugh MacLeod’s “How to Be Creative” manifesto, also called “Ignore Everybody” in its … Read more »
I discovered an interesting site today called “design glut.” The intertubes led me first to their store (they had a pork chop bank), but I was intrigued by the following description near the top of the page: “Our webzine is an inspirational resource for entrepreneurs.” More accurately, their webzine is a series of interviews with successful designers. More inspirational than resource, I’d say, but good breakfast reading nonetheless.
It does make me a little upset and covetous to read entries where the founding … Read more »
