microphotographs

totally neat images (this here's a Dune Mouche) curated by SFMOMA (via Wired). There's a quality to them that is something between drawing and photography...and gel transfer?

lovely package indeed

there's something about those overly intricate mint tins (altoids, newman's own, etc) that make me stop in my tracks and share them with y'all.

(from lovely package via notcot)

Turn on your sound and TYPE

Part of Amy Papaelias' amazing bank of experimental typography:

http://www.sonotype.com/

Your favorite stops in the blogosphere

Jillian Temaki has written a great post (via drawn.ca) about idea generation. Among other things, she advises young grasshoppers (ie. the rest of us) to:

BE INTERESTED. Consume media. Participate in culture. Read books, go to movies, the news, fashion magazines, stupid blogs, etc. Browse the bookstore just for the hell of it.

It's no secret that I'm (mostly) a pop-culture-know-nothing. In the spirit of remembering that art and design should not be produced in an intellectual bubble, keeping in mind consuming (pop) culture is as important as creating it, and that above all art and design is a response to our surroundings, I want to ask you what your favorite blogs/culture gathering things are. Art+design related, tech, pure pop culture, literary, whatever, I want to hear it.

And c'mon, don't be too cool to admit it - I read perezhilton too!

vote today!

i would like encourage you all to vote today, so, uhh, i've drawn you a picture?

last minute info: www.voteforenvironment.ca

beautiful losers

Hand-drawing a tesselated pattern is apparently not a superhuman feat

For all you pattern junkies out there, I've found a tutorial on how to draw your own, as intricatley as you want, and still have the patterns tesselate. I know my eyes went as wide as saucers (sorry, too much Mad Men these days) when I found this - here you go. Thanks to Julia Rothman at Design*Sponge.