By: nicole,
on 12/11/2015
By: nicole,
on 6/25/2015
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| aoi kokeshi FOR SALE |
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| midori kokeshi FOR SALE |
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| akai kokeshi SOLD |
By: KatherineS,
on 6/15/2015
Early summer in London is heralded by the Chelsea Flower Show. This year, the winner of the Best Fresh Garden was the Dark Matter Garden, an extraordinary design by Howard Miller. Dark matter is invisible and thought to constitute much of the universe, but can only be observed through the distortion of light rays, an effect represented in the garden by a lattice of bent steel rods and lines of bamboo, swaying in the wind.
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By: nicole,
on 7/24/2014
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By: nicole,
on 6/12/2014
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| Aoi Kokeshi ©the enchanted easel 2014 |
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| four kokeshi series ©the enchanted easel 2014 |
By: nicole,
on 5/29/2014
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| kiiro kokeshi ©the enchanted easel 2014 |
By: nicole,
on 5/27/2014
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| kirro kokeshi ©the enchanted easel 2014 |
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| {...because perfection always has a place in my life! ;)} |
By: nicole,
on 5/14/2014
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| "akai kokeshi" ©the enchanted easel 2014 |
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| was going to just attach a pic of chris, but i was trying to be fair to the rest of the guys...;) |
By: nicole,
on 5/13/2014
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| akai kokeshi ©the enchanted easel 2014 on this little beauty this week! |
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By: nicole,
on 5/9/2014
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By: wizardhere,
on 12/13/2012
By: Neil Gaiman,
on 5/6/2012
Do you prefer a book that makes you laugh or makes you cry? One that teaches you something or one that distracts you?
Yes.
Wait, do you think those things are exclusive? That books can only be one or the other? I would rather read a book with all of those things in it: a laughing, crying, educating, distractin0 Comments on An extremely exciting week as of 1/1/1900Add a Comment
By: John,
on 5/13/2011
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Bamboo Stylus — A premium digital pen for the iPad, Bamboo Stylus delivers a high-end look, natural, weighted feel of a real pen, to give you capabilities for drawing, sketching and note taking on an iPad.
I think this is a good thing. (Though I think Wacom could have shown better artwork and used a nicer font.)
Pino Tovaglia book - The rule that corrects emotion
In addition to this blog, I own a small design bookstore. As a bookseller, I find it hard to find publishers that consistently produce quality titles. Italian publisher Edizioni Corraini is one of a few publishers that I look forward to their new releases each year. If you own or have seen any Bruno Munari books, you are most likely familiar with their work. They have reproduced dozens of Munari’s books, many of which I own in my personal collection. In addition to the Munari collection, they have produced books on or by Martí Guixé, Enzo Mari, Aoi Huber-Kono (Max Huber’s wife),Taro Miura, Albe Steiner and many others. With this in mind, I was delighted when I received an email from them mentioning that they had been reading Grain Edit and that they would like to send a package my way.
I will cover the contents of the package in several posts. The first being the Pino Tavaglia book seen above.
1960s, 1970s, BOOKS, graphic design, italy, logos, posters, reviews, Typography
Stedelijk Museum program / poster c1970 - Wim Crouwel - designer
Total Design was responsible for designing many of the catalogs/ programs for the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The program above was created by Wim Crouwel and Jolijn van de Wouw (of Total Design) for an exhibition in 1970. The program folds out to a full size poster that reveals a huge letter “A” and the number “7″ which stands for Atelier 7. Atelier translates to “work shop” in English so, this might be referencing a gallery number or possibly the name of the exhibition. On the other side of the poster, it lists the artists and their artwork featured in the gallery.
1970s, dutch, netherlands, out of print, posters, Typography, Wim crouwel
1960s IBM 7094 poster - Designed by Clarence Lee
Clarence Lee graduated from Yale in 1958 and went on to work for the uber graphic designer Lester Beall. In 1962 Clarence left Beall’s firm to work for IBM. During his time at IBM he designed the poster above for the IBM 7094 Data Processing System. The 7094 was released in 1962 and was built for large-scale scientific computing.
During the late 1950s - early 1960s, Paul Rand, Charles Eames ,Marcel Breuer and Eliot Noyes were involved in design work for IBM. It would be interesting to find out if Clarence had any interaction with these designers.
electronics, graphic design, IBM, out of print, posters, USA
Poster for Telefunken c1965
The piece above is one of a series of posters that paris based designer Jacques Nathan Garamond produced for Telefunken. I just wish I could cut out that Telefunken logo. It kind of kills the vibe of this poster. You have all these round edges on the type and the reel to reel player and theres this crazy sharp edge ninja star with lightning bolts.
During the 1950-1960s Garamond began deconstructing objects into geometric shapes. This is evident in the print above as well as his poster work for Air France. I’ll try to scan in some of the Air France posters when I get a chance.
1960s, electronics, France, out of print, posters
Silkscreen Print for a Drama magazine sponsored show at Nonesuch Gallery
Cool design work from Wyeth Hansen (Casual Aesthetics). His website includes t-shirts, posters, type faces as well some motion design. I’m loving the type work above.
(Via Wrong distance)
contemporary, graphic design, illustration, posters, Typography, USA
By: Julie Fortenberry,
on 2/22/2008
from bobstaake.com (by way of martinklasch.blogspot.com --Thanks, P-E!)
By: John,
on 2/20/2008
This book just got launched a few days ago: Picture This! Posters of social movements in Québec (1966 - 2007) There are a whopping 659 posters featured, and 44 of them are featured on the publisher’s website. There are accompanying essays etc, all addressing “Québec’s social history and political imagination”. If you click through, they have included a table of contents and media files of press they have received on various radio stations and so on. I’d link directly, but they unfortunately designed their website in frames (blah!) I haven’t seen the book personally yet, but I’m willing to bet it’s an excellent documentation of evolution in poster/street art aesthetics.
Cumulus Press seems to have more than one title of interest to us here. While you’re there, check out the book Extraction! Comix Reportage.
Israel -the land of the Bible Tourism posters by Jean David (L) c1954 (r) 195?
produced for the State of Israel Tourist Centre
My Knowledge of Jean David (Sometimes referred to as Jan David) is limited. However, what work I’ve seen from him has been nothing less that stellar. Just look at the posters above. I could easily see someone slanging these at a Flatstock poster convention. Dang, I totally nerd out when I see this stuff. Its just so good.
Looks like the whale is riding a boat of waves. Meanwhile, Jonah is relaxing after downing a keg of Vitamen C. Just look at all that orange!
1950s, graphic design, israel, Mid century, modern, out of print, posters, tourism, travel
By: Claire Louise Milne,
on 2/11/2008
Back view of the heart pin
Silver sheep charm necklace, created by Allison Wells, Papersnake Jewellery
Assorted vintage buttons, Lucie Davies, Button Me Up
I also bought this blue bamboo fabric from Karyn and it's been whipped up into curtains that are now gracing the sliding doors that are in our kitchen at the back of the house. And they're everything I hoped they would be.
Poster by John Foster / fuszion
Great posters for a better cause.
Donated by designers and artists around the globe, posters sold at the So-Cal Fire Poster Project raise funds for victims of the wildfires that devastated Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and San Diego Counties. All proceeds will be given to the Salvation Army, for the 2007 California Wildfire fund.
Posters by: Paul Frank / Park La Fun, Hatch Design,Wink, Modern Dog, Micah Smith, John Foster / fuszion, Josh Higgins / Mike Carnevale, Robert Palmer, Barretto & Co., Frank Chimero, Buchanan Design, Lanny Sommese, Jason Gomez, Madeleine, Ryan Russell Design, Chaz Russo/The Graphic Soul, Nick McPherson, MiresBall, Bernie Tiano and Shepard Fairey.
Get some here
charity, contemporary, graphic design, posters
My first introduction to Wink Design was four or five years ago when their packaging for Sunmilk was making the rounds in the design magazines and annuals. Since then, I’ve tried to keep an eye on their work. What has impressed me the most about Wink has been their ability to consistently produce top notch work.
contemporary, graphic design, interviews, posters
In this card designed by mr.mannun, business ties are flying in the wind as this beast rips down a small patch of Christmas trees all while holding a flock of fudgesicle shaped birds. This is great! One of my favorite finds on Flickr. My top pick in the genre of groucy card design.
You can browse the rest of mr.mannun’s design / illustration work on Flickr. He also has a few poster samples on Gig posters.com
cards, contemporary, graphic design, illustration, posters, USA
Glad you saw it. A truly great thing :D