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Fact No. 5: My favorite color is yellow. Unfortunately I couldn’t find the source for this, because the link on Pinterest goes to a 404 on Etsy. Anyone know who made this lovely office letterpress? It’s so cheery. It would look great in my studio!
Here’s another delightful free font for you guys. It’s called Chunk and it would look oh so lovely in a nice editorial layout, don’t you think?
They’re finally here, and I’m still unhappy with the photographs. Anyone have any tips for photographing documents? I just have a simple point and shoot camera, but I’m forever having difficulty with the lighting, which is always not enough, but if I add a light source, the pictures yellow out too much. I also have trouble getting it to keep things like the text in focus because my camera wants to focus on the texture of the paper more than what’s on it. Other than my technical difficulties/being an inept photographer, I was happy with the process of making these announcements.
Monday’s suck and my weekend wasn’t much better. I’m seriously falling behind on getting stuff done lately. Let’s hope this week finds me getting caught back up. Here’s a pretty sweet papercraft portrait of Thom Yorke from the band Radiohead by Miguel Dias and it was done for a school project. Isn’t that impressive? You should look at his site, because there are some pretty cool in process shots of this illustration.
This was apparently made to be an award for Best Beast Maker in what I’m assuming is a design/illustration event in the Netherlands by artist Sigrid Spier. She has some other similar creations on her behance. Love the effect she’s getting by stacking the sheets of paper. I think these would be fun in a nursery.
This one was done by a studio called Bomboland for a contest by AirCanada. There is so much going on in this illustration and all of it is awesome. You can click the image to see more close up detail shots of this illustration or just browse around their website to see tons of papercraft illustrations they’ve done for various magazines.
Fact No. 4: Daisy by Marc Jacobs has been my perfume of choice for almost 5 years now. It smells great and I love the packaging. I also love the soft color in Katie’s illustration from Paperfashion.
One of my professors from college, who specializes in wedding paraphernalia sent me an amazing resource for paper recently. I have been on the fence between whether I should make my own envelopes by hand (and if so, where was I going to get quality paper in the right size to do so) or purchase them. I didn’t know if that was selling out because then I didn’t actually design or make the envelopes, all I did was pair one with my invite design. Then I found envelopments . They let you personalize every aspect down to the envelope liners and what folds you want. Unfortunately this isn’t a small scale “I’ll take 2 of those, please” operation. You have to apply to be able to order and you have to give them your Tax ID number. My professor recommended that I also look into getting a sole proprietor business license as well. It’s a little overwhelming but I can tell by the shining review and recommendation from my professor, as well as the high quality beautiful designs they have posted on their website, like the Rosalie & Jacob design, seen above, that utilizing what envelopments has to offer would do wonders for me and my fledgling business. Just wanted to pass on the resource for anyone who might find themselves in the same situation as me.
You guys know I love it when things are made from paper, but I actually don’t like when things are made from book paper. It seems… disrespectful almost. I love to read and I love books and I just couldn’t bring myself to cut one up, even a book I disliked. I can’t imagine what the author would think to see their words dissected and transformed into “art”. I don’t mean to belittle the work featured above. It’s a snake necklace by PaperStatement that was featured on the Etsy homepage. I just feel that this is an interesting jewelry piece that would be just as interesting, if not more, if it was made out of maybe colored paper, and not an unnamed book. Anybody else with me? or am I being too sensitive about the printed word?
Let us dance like children of the night. Anyone recognize that movie line? It’s from one of my favorite guilty pleasure movies. Anyway, I digress. Just wanted to share this lovely font nadia serif with you.
The website is in German, but you can view it translated if you’re using a web browser like Google Chrome. The font is free to download although they do ask that you send them a PDF or copy of projects you want to use it in.
ThePaperGnome has a new logo, and it’s made of paper! I like the direction it’s going in, but I want to make it again and try to get it a little cleaner, more uniform line weights and what not. What do you think?
Oh Monday, how do you always come so quickly? My weekend went past in a blink of an eye and now it’s back to work. I had such a hard time getting out of bed this morning and getting started for the day, so I apologize for the late posting. I’ve got some nice things to share with you today though, like these shadowbox paper illustrations by Helen Musselwhite. The little details like the house with little shutters that look like you could open and close them really make the piece for me.
I love being able to look at papercraft illustration and say to myself, “Wow, that’s paper.” But when it comes to paper sculptures like the one above by Calvin Nicholls, I find myself saying “Oh my God, that’s paper?!?!” Can you imagine how much time has to go into something like this? I’d like to see it in person to get a feel for how far it sticks out.
Last for today is this re-imagining of a cover of The Jungle by Upton Sinclair by Becca Charlier-Matthews. I have to say, I’ve never read this book but it’s on my list of books to read. All I know is that it has to do with meat-packing and it’s supposed to make you never want to eat meat again. Kudos to Becca for making even that subject matter look appetizing. That’s all I have for you today. I still feel like I need a kickstart to get going this week. Have you guys seen anything else worth noting recently?
