ACU Craft Fair

Hi friends! Yesterday was such a busy day! A lot of the time I usually spend in the evenings to blog I spent yesterday making these fun decorative poof balls to sell at the ACU Craft Fair tomorrow! I will post a picture of them a little later. For now, here is the flier I made for the fair with all of the info about the fair! If you are in Abilene, you should come! There are always a lot of really great things available for purchase!

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So I was doing a good job for a while about not lusting over CS5, and then I saw this.



omg. i love illustrator cs5 from Jessica Hische on Vimeo.
Drools...

Beautiful Things

Here are a few things that I have tagged as "beautiful" in my RSS feed lately:

1, 2, 3, 4

The Exquisite Book

This has been floating around the blog world quite a bit. It took me seeing it on about 3 different blogs to actually investigate what it is and I'm glad I did! It's a book based on a Surrealist game (I'm just shocked to even hear myself talking about the Surrealists) called the Exquisite Corpse. Basically they asked 100 artists to participate in the making of this book. They gave the first artist a prompt and they drew, the next artist only looked at the page right before his/hers and drew the next scene, each scene shares a horizon line and that's what ties each chapter together! I want this on my book shelf one day. Here are some images and a video promoting it!

 

The Exquisite Book from ALSO on Vimeo.

Legos and Letterpress!

Recently I'm completely obsessed with Letterpress work thanks to a couple of projects I did recently that pushed me into exploring the style. It's gotten to the point where I've considered working at a print shop that uses lots of letterpress right out of school, it just seems so cool! Here's some letterpress done with legos done by Physical Fiction.

Fun stuff here people! Maybe one day I will letterpress!

I found this at swissmiss!

Salt and Pepper Shakers!

While doing research for a new project I was assigned today, I stumbled over these awesomely cute salt and pepper shakers by Jonathan Adler on the Dieline. My great Granny used to collect Salt and Pepper shakers, it's something my mom reminds me of every time we see a unique pair, so I always wonder if these would just be a great addition to her collection! Check them out.

I mean seriously these things are so cute and so elegant and the packaging is awesome (hence the feature on the Dieline). You can find these and several other cuties here!