If you like monochromatic interiors and furnishings as much as I do, I believe that you’ll appreciate this recommendation. Melanie Mikecz, otherwise known as Two Ems, creates prints which would add a colourful pop to any wall, any room. HER STORY: Melanie Mikecz likes to consider herself a designer slash starving artist. So that means she only starves half the time (Just . . .
Wobbly Type
Jelly is delicious to gobble, a treat enjoyed by both children and adults. Well, I'm assuming that most adults still like jelly - how can you think that the colourful, sweet, half-food half-liquid food is anything but great? Well now apparently you can also make typography with the rainbow treat. m-inspira, a pair of designers from Valencia in Spain, recently created gelatin letters as one of . . .
Type in Flowers
Who doesn't love good typography... UK Designer Petra Blahova created her own typeface by freezing colourful flowers and fruits into alphabetical ice cubes in a series titled "My Garden". If only our gardens looked a little more like this. “I like to play with experimental typography...you can create typography from anything” - Petra Each bit of botany was arranged to perfectly fit the . . .
Love Letters
Apparently I've become quite the design-nerd since starting work at my agency. Perhaps that is true, as I found this proposal kinda cute. San Francisco-based designer Will Geddess recently proposed to his girlfriend through the use of typographic posters. Titled 'love letters', 19 posters were created by Geddess and his fellow graphic designer, illustrator and tattoo artist friends. Together, . . .
Fishy Business
Awesome packaging is awesome. Okay, that is probably one of the most redundant statements I have made. But really, packaging does make all the difference. Those of you who have bought fresh fish know those off-white papery packets that get slimy in your grocery bags and seem impossible to close once you tear off that barcoded sticker. Or the clingwrapped polystyrene tray which has the tendency to . . .