Ornaments

18, originally uploaded by peacay.

There's a fantastic collection of printer's ornaments if you follow the link above. Thanks to Richard for posting them originally, in between all the chicken excitement.

Dr Strangelove

I was reminded today of one of my favourite sets of opening titles. Beautiful and very fitting.

Sweetie Birds

Sweetie birds, originally uploaded by shoobydoo.

Lovely.

Jon Burgerman's Colouring Cube

Hay Day 1 Proper, originally uploaded by Jon_Burgerman.

Hay in the rain vs. colouring in = no contest.

Shintaro Ohata

Shintaro Ohata, originally uploaded by pingmag.

Spotted this today. Beautiful. I like the image of all the hustle and bustle around her too, and how it emphasizes how lost in her own world she is.

American Photography 1900-1960

Walker Evans, Subway Passengers, New York, 1938.

I went to a really interesting lecture last night at The British Museum. It drew largely on the incredible, and very accessible, FSA archive. It highlighted how influential a few photographers in particular have been to contemporary photography and photojournalism, including Dorothea Lange, Helen Levitt, Alfred Stieglitz and of course Walker Evans. They're all worth a good look.


Walker Evans, Hale County, Alabama 1936.


Alfred Stieglitz, The Steerage, 1907.


Helen Levitt, New York, 1940.


Dorothea Lange, Woman of the High Plains “If You Die, You’re Dead–That’s All.” Texas Panhandle, 1938.

Laura Cooperman

Researching something totally unrelated for work, I just came across this great blog. Lots of interesting thing, including Laura Cooperman's incredible work. Painstakingly perfect paper-cuts. Her portfolio's really interesting, well worth a look.

Rob Ryan

Rob Ryan's been busy lately. Not only does he have some GORGEOUS new prints for sale like Can We Shall We, above, (click here for a larger view) he's also exhibiting in Tatty Devine's Brick Lane space from the 25th April til the 1st of June. Hooray!

Sailor in a Cup

sailor in a cup, originally uploaded by Camilla E.

Camilla Engman has been posting the progress of her collaboration with Karin Eriksson on Flickr and her lovely blog, and I had to show you this little sailor. I think he's wonderful, and a beautiful hopeful colour to lift the melancholy feeling. Apparently there's also a heart in the bottom of the cup which Camilla says he is "looking for... or maybe he has lost it.".

Cecil Beaton

Cecil_Beaton, originally uploaded by hello.vickibrown.

I came across this quote in my sketchbook today. He's quite poetic in his utter disgust at ordinariness.

Marimekko for H&M

Can't wait to get my mitts on some of this patterny goodness. The H&M website seemed to be down this morning, but there's some images on The Cut and nitro:licious.

Helen Dardik

I found Helen Dardik's blog and portfolio site today via Print Pattern, and it's fantastic! I can't believe I hadn't seen it before. She has a really exciting style and great use of colour and hand-drawn typography - see the bits I pinched from her website above.