i love tiny vices

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eric carl <3

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Charley Harper Shoessss

And look at the colorrrr!!!



Before you get too excited though...
They cost 600 dollas.


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not music.

Saw this book online,
reminded me stylistically of your thesis book for some reason even though it is way diff.
love it anyway.

Did you knowww

that Old Navy is carrying a Charley Harper Line for the holidays?!!




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Lovely illustrator

I feel like there are a million illustrators with styles similar to this,
but for whatever reason, Somefield's work still stands out for me.




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some of the most awesome info graphics you'll see in your life.

Here's a link to more.

It also includes translations of some of the sweet descriptions...

"The illustration also shows a series of sack-like organs for storing lava, oil, coal and uranium (like Godzilla), as well as balloon-like organs in the legs that can blast air through the bottoms of the feet"

ryu itadani

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Tadanori Yokoo

How was I not familiar with him already?!?!
So awesome!!!

Honestly the only word I can think of to describe his style is epic.







he's the guy that did this previously mentioned poster!...


More images here.
Also check out the blog it's from.
Pretty great!

Charley Harper prints

via apartment therapy

hire her, like now! duh.

Sooo, my humble roommate decided to do some major updatege of her portfolio site and not tell me...
Lucky for her I am a creeper and saw it.

So ya, everyone should check out her amazing work!!!







these are my top 3 favs!

She also gets the award for best homepage ever. really.

o hai

so I just moved all of my gmail into the macs mail thing and I came across a lot of random things that only god knows why I have emailed them to myself.

things such as this...


juss thought i'd share that...

I need to get a life...

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Sister Corita

I am sure you have probably seen this on Design Observer or heard about her, but I wanted to post about one of my heroes, Sister Corita Kent.

She was born in Iowa and entered the sisterhood in the Immaculate Heart community in Los Angeles at age 18. The Catholic church was going through some changes and things were a bit more liberal, so the sisters and brothers of the community were artists and activists and such as well. Sister Corita was an artist who created amazing screenprinted posters that while infused with her faith, broached larger topics like love and peace (no doubt the community around her loved this being california in the 60s.) Her Ten Rules for the art department at Immaculate Heart College have been passed around by many in the creative community. There is alot of truth in what she says, (she seems to have been what many teachers try to be today), and it is a cool piece in itself. She broke away from the Sisterhood to move to Boston to be a full-time artist and continued to create her amazing pieces.

I find it surprising that I never heard her name mentioned in my design history classes (at Parsons, no less!) as we learned about Seymour Chwast and Victor Moscoso. Granted one started pushpin and the other had a large influence over the psychedelic scene, but so did she and is just as respected by those who know her work. Maybe I am just ignorant of her influence prior to being told of her by a few teachers. Maybe I slept through/skipped the week Alvin Grossman said something about her or was daydreaming when she was brought up in history of graphic design, but its a shame that she isn't mentioned on par with other designer/illustrators. Julie Ault put together her mongraph "Come Alive! The Spirited Art of Sister Corita" which several teachers have shown me in studio class. Maybe she is discussed in illustration history classes, I am not sure. There needs to be a big show of her work in the near future, as I have seen her work being talked about for awhile now, and if the Whitney can put on a show of psychadelic art, then she should get some larger recognition. Even if you despise the idea of god, or even moreso the Catholic idea of god, the work is powerful & beautiful enough to appreciate.

Design Observer article and slideshow on Sister Corita

Wikipedia article on Sister Corita

Corita Art Center

Amazon: Come Alive!

Sister Corita's Ten Rules

It goes to show you that not everything is going to be fed to you in the proper class at school and the more you explore the more you find.

Jim The Illustrator

Also, Jim Stoten (Jim the Illustrator) is a British, illustrator, from England.  Just in case you missed it, I used repetition to hammer that one home.  He was did the cover and an insert in Amelia's Magazine a few seasons/issues ago and he has a style that reflects both Frog and Toad as well as Yellow Submarine but is his own as well.  He has done work for bands, editiorial, as well as advertising.  The best part of his website is his sketchbook, which is set up as a linear story and is really cool to flip through on his website (jimtheillustrator.co.uk).  You can also dowload one of his books for free on the site.