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Scott Campbell is a graphic designer, illustrator, print maker and currently working and living in New Orleans. One of my favorite works of his was created for the New Orleans Issue of GOOD Magazine back in 2010. Scott created a beautiful series of illustrations highlighting Brad Pitt’s “Make It Right” program (you can read the article here).
“Is the ‘Make It Right’ program’s high-design, low-income green housing project what the Lower 9th Ward needs?”
HandpaintedType is a project helping to preserve the work of Indian street painters by digitizing their alphabets.
Many are being driven out of business by shops printing vinyl signs, putting this beautiful craft at risk. Hanif Kureshi is working to turn some of the painters’ work into fonts. Half of the money from the sale of each font goes back to the painter, the other half goes to fund the project.
One of the fonts, Painter Umesh (the first shown below), is even available for free. There is also a gallery of hand painted signs on the site.
Two Paperdolls is a letterpress and design house located in Wayne, Pa. that has some truly beautiful work. They provide everything from wedding invitations to business cards and website designs for all of your custom printing, letterpress and design needs.
I can’t stop thinking about how incredible this idea is, especially when the music industry is going digital. As the digital generation goes on, we don’t really touch music anymore. And I always feel sad when I see a beautiful cover on a vinyl or CD in a record store and yet never buy it. So, this play button idea really hits me: it’s a button, which you can pin it on your shirt, your purse, your whatever; but it also plays music. And more importantly, it’s collectable. Who doesn’t like buttons?
Your in luck, it’s not just an idea anymore. It’s now live, you can buy them here.
If you liked playing with your food as a kid, you’ll love Carl Warner’s photographs.
The UK artist creates incredible images of landscapes out of food. It’s amazing how realistic some of his scenes look, until you realize those trees are made of broccoli!
He does commissioned pieces, but many of his works are personal projects. Warner creates them all by hand, with only minor Photoshopping. He has also recently released a book, Carl Warner’s Food Landscapes.
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Foundry Co is a creative branding agency and the collaborative effort of Paul Wilkes and Scott Hill. Rooted in the art of creating beautiful things and founded in 2009, Foundry Collective blends strong senses of style in both modern and vintage aspects, applying a fresh approach to projects across the globe. In short, it is Foundry’s mission to provide beautiful, engaging aesthetics paired with relevant messages. While the agency found its beginnings in Oklahoma City, Scott currently resides in Denver and Paul in Dallas. You can read more about the agency here.
Noma Bar does amazing work with negative space. I love how his illustrations, at first, appear as a single bold image. Then as you look a little closer, another image appears. He is able to convey complex messages in his deceptively simple-looking pieces. His book Negative Space is a beautiful collection of his work. He also just did a show at the London Design Festival with a huge dog-shaped cutting machine that allowed people to cut their own pieces of his work, which he then signed as part of a limited edition series.
Jon Ashcroft is a creative director/illustrator/Rable-Rouser living and working in Phoenix. His specialties include editorial illustration, non-profit/small business branding, publication design and making things look cool. Jon has developed a very unique style of texture work making his pieces easily recognizable. His use of color is exceptional as well.
Mary Kate McDevitt creates beautiful hand lettering. She is a freelance illustrator and artist living in Portland. Various pieces of her work have been floating around the internet for the last few weeks. And for good reason. She has done commissioned work for several companies in addition to personal projects. She also has an Etsy shop where she sells most of her lettering pieces as cards and prints along with her Mini Goals Chalkboards.
Love these paper-cut city maps by Famille Summerbelle. You can buy prints, home accessories and wall papers in their online shop!
