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French Paper Sample Room

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010

Image from The French Paper Sample Room

French Paper is a cool company (and one of the oldest in the country) that manufactures different paper in the US using 100% Hydroelectric power… They have a really cool selection of patterned papers, and a diverse selection of other paper products for just about any kind of print job you could imagine.

The French Paper Sample Room is a curated Blog that features some super-awesome design and high-quality printing using French Paper paper. There is a fair bit of letterpress and silkscreen printing featured on the site, which is really awesome to see (anything creative AND hands on is good stuff if you ask me) Having lived in Kansas City and being able to see the awesome potential of letterpress printing (notably from the creative engine that is Hammerpress) it’s inspiring to see people from all over getting so creative.

Tags: letterpress, Links, paper, print resources
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“RICH, Inside & Out” Book Cover Concept

Friday, May 14th, 2010

Recently there was a design contest posted on globalgrind.com by icon Russel Simmons. The call for entries was to produce a book cover for his upcoming book “Rich Inside and Out, A Guide to Money and Happiness”. Two Images were provided as reference and some of the entries were posted as guidance.

I was up for the challenge, I love a well designed book cover, not to mention great illustration (though none was involved in this instance, and maybe there should have been… hmm). Now there has been, in the profession of Graphic Design, great disdain for contests and speculative work (i.e. work without a guarantee of compensation). And sadly I can no longer can fall back on student status as an excuse for taking part. The AIGA (Professional Association for Design) even has an official position on such work (namely, that it is a big huge no-no, and devalues all Design). But at this point in my life, I take what I can get, so if my time can be spent designing something at least potentially ‘real’, then so be it. Below is my entry…

Tags: book covers, Branding, branding and Identity, Links
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Home Sweet Home

Friday, May 14th, 2010

Was browsing the interwebs last night and came upon Home Sweet Home, a wonderful blog about living spaces. All of the content is submitted by users, and there is some great design involved. I would give up (metaphorically of course) some body bits to live in some of these places. The best part is that there is a tonne of DIY taking place. Sure there’s some nice furniture but most of the beauty involves re-purposing found items, and finding interesting ways to make use of limited space.