Cloud9 Fabrics: Ed Emberley
Posted by Amy on Thursday April 19, 2012
I’ve been keeping abreast of Cloud9 fabrics for some time now, and I was thrilled to see that Ed Emberley’s amazing prints, bundled together in the Happy Drawing collection were among this year’s collection! Based on his first how-to-draw book, Drawing Book of Animals, all of the characters featured in the collection are true representations of the characters that he teaches how to draw!
These prints were designed to work with quilts – I just love the accompanying pattern of scribbles in key colors that adds enough texture while being neutral to the entire palette of the collection.
For more information on where to buy and to see the rest of Cloud9’s collections, head over to their website and see here for a list of books written by Ed.
Penguin threads: Jillian Tamaki
Posted by Amy on Wednesday April 11, 2012
From Penguin Threads comes a collection of classics, all embroidered to the hilt. The below are covers done by Jillian Tamaki and they are absolutely exquisite. These will be sculptural-embossed and are full wraparound images with french flaps (you can click here to go to Jillian’s site for images that can be enlarged). Black Beauty even won a Gold Medal from the Society of Illustrators in 2012!
You can purchase these over at Amazon, and another artist’s work that will soon grace the covers of the collection include Rachell Sumpter.
{All images from Jillian Tamaki}
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Pamplemouss
Posted by Amy on Tuesday April 10, 2012
I’ve been using the same pencil case since I was 15 – I kid you not. I pulled it out the other day and my friend from high school squealed and pointed at it excitedly (a little too excitedly, I thought). Turns out everyone remembers me and my big fat pencil case – it was used to house 4 tubes of Smarties chocolates before it was reincarnated as a pencil case by yours truly.
So while I’m still using old faithful, if I were ever looking for a new one (at this point I’m waiting for it to disintegrate into a heap of synthetics), I’ve got my eye on the ones from Pamplemouss. Darn you internetz for all the pencil case candy out there! *shakes fists*
LINK: Pamplemouss
UPDATE: I’ve gotten quite a few requests to unveil my pencil case! So for the curious, here it is!
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Building blocks
Posted by Amy on Friday March 30, 2012
The below images have been floating around the internet and I couldn’t resist adding them here for today! If you haven’t seen them and are struggling to decipher what these are, here’s a clue: Cartoon characters.
Produced by German advertising agency Jung von Matt, this was a print advertisement for Lego and I think they did a smashing job.
I love how the agency reduced the form of each cartoon family and stripped it down to a column of color. It’s interesting to see how much our brain needs to go on before we instinctively know who those characters are. And once we’re hit with that a-ha moment, our eyes and senses adjust themselves; dredging up memories of long forgotten characters.
Yes, it’s true – we’re inexplicably bound by pop culture.
Did you manage to guess the characters behind each image? I can imagine these lot would be more easily identified by those who were born in the early 80s, like I am! If not here’s your answer:
{From top to bottom: South Park, The Smurfs, The Simpsons , Lucky Luke and the Daltons, Asterix and Obelix, Donald Duck and Nephews, Bert and Ernie, and Ninja Turtles!}
Via Minimalissimo
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