Tails from the Vault

New owl buttons. I created two designs for the button show and publication that goes along with the Tails from the Vault show at the U of L Art Gallery.

This show was curated from the enormous art collection by the Trap\door ARC Board (which includes me.) I also helped put together the publication with Brenna Kanski and Chai Duncan.
We concentrated on contemporary imagery of animals found in the collection. I'm pretty excited to show the world what we found. Imagine giant stuffed dogs with apartment buildings and speakers in their bellies, giant paintings of cats, flocked bunny prints! Awesome!

The publication is very whimsical. If you purchase a Trap\door membership at the show, you will receive a free copy. An amazing deal!!!

Post Failure - Font Maybe

Four days in - already off the posting everyday band wagon... Ugh. Insomnia followed by falling asleep in the middle of the day does not for good blogging make. I'm going to pretend the last two days didn't happen.

Here is a link to an interesting quiz: What FONT Are You?

Apparently, I'M COURIER.

Supposedly because I'm "unconventional." Well yes, I guess I am but I'm not a huge fan of courier. Maybe because its too obvious and I associate it with handmade punk zines. And don't get me wrong, I LOVE handmade zines but I think I'm trying to project a classier font these days.

Quiz link was found on the Objectified film site.

Alarm Dance

Multiples - Rune Guneriussen

Rune Guneriussen takes photos of mutiples of common place furnishings in the wilderness. I find her imagery whimsical and would love to be walking in the forest and stumble into this scene. Oh and I would be wearing a red cloak.

I think I stumbled onto this via Apartment Therapy.

1,000 True Fans

This article by Kevin Kelly intrigued me. From boing boing.

Tricot Machine

The lovely Emily tipped me on this amazing video by Quebec group Tricot (Knitting) Machine. I'm sure I've watched it a dozen times. I want a knitting machine now. Desperately.

From Yarn-A-Go-Go!

Type Animals

Jeremy Pettis has created a fonts for 26 animals based on their characteristics. OH my gosh!

Hint from Drawn!

Walking Street Machine Puppets

More wondrous French creations have been circulating the blogosphere. I wish we had some wooly mammoths running in the streets here in Alberta. This elephant is from Les Machines de l'Ile. I really can't get enough of these circus street puppets.

2006 in Paris I saw an exhibition of La Machine and Royal de Luxe. This is a a link to an English website for those who can not read french.

I was prompted by boing boing.

New Favorite Blog

This blog is full of some of the most gorgeous stuff. I'm going to spend weeks exploring all the links and luscious pictures. Print & Pattern

Discovered via Whip Up!

More Adhesive Beauty

Flickr has a new Mid Century Modern - Sticker, Label & Stamp Club. This image is apparently from a polish matchbox. I would have taken up smoking to carry these around.

Directed to design loveliness by Drawn!

Design Advice Posters

Advice to Sink in Slowly:
The University College Falmouth (UCF) asked graduates to create posters with advice for first years. The project has grown and there are some awesome posters with some awesome advice (not just for first years.) Some people have such excellent ideas. I'd buy them all.

Words Are Not Enough by Ellie Cryer (Her portfolio site is luscious!)

As seen on Drawn!