Last week I received my invite to Pinterest and i’ve been pinning ever since. I have 4 boards at the moment – “Cool Typography“, “Surface Patter Design“, “Website Design Inspiration” and “VW Vans“. Click on the links and have a peek!
It’s great for finding inspiration as you can pin things in groups and peruse them all at once. I’m pinning on a daily basis and finding loads of cool things to post!
Here are a few images from my boards.
You can see my full Pinterest profile here. Enjoy!
My 12 Days of Christmas posts were blogged about on Top Left Design’s site over December. You can read the full post here.
Thanks Top Left Design!
I’m loving the 7th edition of their calendar this year.
Noa Bembibre started it in January 2006, and is the brains behind the phrases, design and typesetting.
The calendar is printed on uncoated stock, in 4 colour printing. It also includes a cool black ribbon binding, which gives it a very retro feel.
Take a look at the calendars archive page for great phrases and typography. You can also place orders on the website.
(All images taken from the “Cats Let Nothing Darken Their Roar” website)
I first saw Jenny’s work back in March this year. I loved her embroidery badges and cards and decided to blog about her work. You can read the full post here. After the post, I’ve keep up to date with her latest creations on her Facebook page and “Not on the Highstreet.com“.
It was this week that I spotted her delightful festive badges created using appliqué and patterned fabric. I think Jenny’s Christmas pudding and stocking badge designs are my favourites!
You can see more of Jenny’s work on:
http://www.jennyarnott.co.uk
http://www.notonthehighstreet.com/jennya…
http://www.folksy.com/shops/jennyarnott
http://www.jennyarnott.blogspot.com
http://www.twitter.com/jenny_arnott
(All images from Jenny Arnott Textiles Not on the Highstreet.com shop)
WitShop design and produce beautiful homewares, cards and gifts. The company is based in Leeds and places a huge emphasis on high quality manufacturing, design and materials. Each gift is hand-finished and they use a range of techniques to create their products.
I particularly love the hand-illustrated “Christmas Birds” and “Veg Soup” recipe cards.
Their website is full of fun gift ideas so go and have a gander soon!
Melanie Mikecz is a freelance illustrator based in San Francisco. She specialises in mixed media illustration using techniques such as sketching, painting, drawing, scanning, and “Photoshopping”.
Here illustrations have lots of colour and textures and include great characterisations! Here are some of my favourite festive illustrations that Melanie has produced.
All Melanie’s prints are available to buy on her Etsy shop. As well as illustrations she also produces abstract art too.
(All images taken from Melanie Mikecz’s Etsy page)
Wrap is a magazine which dedicates its pages to all things design and illustration. The magazine launched back in 2010, and is stocked in various retailers around the world.
In each issue they choose talented illustrators to contribute to the magazine. Each piece of work is printed in large scale, and the magazine has been specifically designed so that each sheet can be detached and used a cool wrapping paper.
The magazine also features interviews with the designers, articles related to the theme of the magazine and much more.
Below are a selection of Christmas wrap packs and illustration which feature in issue 3.
Christmas wrapping paper’s by Ben Javens, Iker Spozio and Andrew Groves
Christmas wrapping paper’s by Ben Javens, Andrew Groves, Tom Clohosy Cole and Donna Wilson
Check out Wrap’s website for pervious issues, their blog and online shop.
I’m loving Jimjam’s cards this year. They’re fun, stylish and use lots of stitch embroidery. My favourite are the assorted fabric Christmas trees below. The simple shapes and subtle embellishments, whether it be beads, spotty fabric or silver cotton trunks, create colourful compositions on the felt and hessian backgrounds.
As well as creating wonderful Christmas cards JimJam Designs also make cards for all occasions. You can see more on their Facebook page and buy cards online at their Folksy shop.
(All images taken from Jimjam Designs Facebook page)
Sophie Elm is the ceramic designer and illustrator behind the work of Jeff Josephine Designs. We studied together on our foundation course and once finished, we then tootled on our separate ways to University. It was only in our final year that we bumped into one another again at D&AD.
Sophie’s work has developed since then, and she is now producing lots of illustrated ceramic wear such as tiles, cups and necklaces. As well as this, she has also illustrated 2 books, creates screen printed fabric designs, greeting cards and exhibits her work around the UK.
In this post I want to talk about her ceramic heart necklaces. They come in all kinds of patterns and no two are ever the same as she paints these by hand. They’d make perfect gifts, and I think they’d look great as Christmas tree decorations.
Take a look at some of Sophie’ designs below.
You can see more of Sophie’s work on her Facebook page which she keeps regularly up to date with her new work, forthcoming exhibitions and fairs she is taking part in. You can also browse her Etsy shop here too.
(All images taken from Jeff Josephine Design’s Facebook page and Etsy shop)
If you saw my blog post in the summer which featured Kirsty’s work, you may be familiar with her gorgeous drift wood greeting cards and handmade wall and celling hangings.
Below is a selection of her Christmas card range made from tiny pieces of wood, twigs, beads and fabric. The small pieces of drift wood, once carefully fitted together, create wonderful naive shapes which resemble robins, reindeers and Christmas puds.
As well as her Christmas cards, she has also been busy creating hanging decorations for the tree and fireplace. Here is a selection of her poker dot penguins, perched robins and patchwork Christmas trees.
This is just a snippet of some of the great work Kirsty’s produced. You can see much more on her website and blog. Why not also have a browse on her online shop and see if there are any presents to be had for family and friends!
(All images take from Kirsty Elson’s Facebook page or Blog)
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