My friends are talented

Wow, busy week! Sorry for the lack of consistency lately. I want to share a way cool video recently created by one of my friends! Sandra Amstutz created this dreamy, magical video called "All The People Here." I highly suggest watching it!


All The People Here from Sandra Amstutz on Vimeo.

Letterpress Obession

Have you figured out that my newest obsession is letterpressed anything? Here are some handmade business cards made by Sophie Gallo from her home office. I'm just drooling over her equipment, it's all the things I want for my future life as a designer. She letterpressed the front of her cards then screen printed and Gocco Printed the back. Pretty nifty stuff.

Here is a video of her using her letterpress:


I found this here.

Width Tool

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...

Oil and Water

The BP oil spill is something that hits close to home with me. I'm compelled by the art that has come out of this awful disaster. It has inspired so many beautiful pieces. Here is another one! This one is done by Happiness Brussels, and all of the benefits of this project go to the Oil Spill and Coast Restoration Efforts. You can find the site dedicated to these posters here. I've posted a video to show the process of how they are actually using oil collected from the beaches to create these posters.


OIL & WATER DO NOT MIX from Happiness Brussels on Vimeo.
Here is the final product.

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.