Steve Harrington

I dig his illustration style ...And the detail in those screen prints, amazing! I really like the idea of cutting frame matte to integrate with the image too.

Buttons make me happy

How can it be, that no one has ever thought of this genius idea before? (or maybe I've been missing out) I love, love, love these alphabet buttons!
From the style files.

So Pretty

This caught my eye today on the Print and Pattern blog. I think I need to print some more tea towels soon!

Silja Gotz

A fantastic new illustrator to add to my bookmarks. I love how she mixes styles and mediums and makes everything seem perfectly matched together.

Samuel Francois

This is so unexpected and lovely!

Coffee Cuffs

I'm not a huge coffee drinker, but these may sway my opinion. The wooden cuff is from bentwood (they have some sweet belt buckles too) and the knit sleeve is from the Curiosity Shoppe.

p*phone

This made me think "Miami Vice" at first glance. Honestly, I miss the old phones...those tangled wires and fun colors, not to mention the rotary dials. Turns out this phone reduces radiation exposure to the head by around 95% as compared with direct use of a cell phone. Pretty boss.

Fantastic New Blog

Finding new blogs makes me smile...and bonus, this blogger is from MPLS! She's got a wonderful variety of all sorts of inspiring things, here are some of my favs. That owl gift wrap cracks me up.

kKarlstrom

I love her style...the frayed edging, loose threads and button strings are so perfectly imperfect. Love the white on white texture too.

Arcade Fire

I think I'm late to the YouTube game on this one, but better late than never. This video is fabuu.

The North Shore

We spent the weekend up north for Jamie's 30th birthday. It was uber relaxing...good to see the stars and listen to silence. We stopped in Duluth and found some vintage books with amazing illustrations and I picked up a handful of vintage buttons to add to the collection. On the way home we hit up Gooseberry Falls after nearly escaping from the six inches of snow that fell Saturday night. As fabulous as it was, I REALLY enjoyed my nice hot shower back in the city. Happy Birthday J! xoxo

ABC3D

I can't even begin to think about the hours that went into this book. So f*ing amazing! The interaction of the letterforms is brilliant. I watched the YouTube video twice...you know it's good.

Orange Beautiful

I love the typography on this book and card from Orange Beautiful. You can say a lot with a name!

i love this

I love simple posters. So clean and graphic... I'm also digging the black and silver combo lately.