blackbird letterpress

excellent idea - printing on a moleskin notebook. note to self. made by blackbird letterpress, based out of Baton Rouge.

april heat.

"And yet this has been just the right kind of warm spell. The warmth seems fragile, easily dispelled by the night. It lacks the ingrown, acrid tang of the heat that feels like August come early, the kind that embeds itself in the asphalt and drifts down the subway steps and piles up in stale corners all across the city. The breeze rises in the late afternoon, and that’s that."

-- April Heat editorial, NY Times

it's a beautiful day

hooray!

via: gothamist

the wizard of oz

it basically took every ounce of restraint for me to not post all of the images from illustrated in full colour throughout 's post on these wizard of oz drawings.  the book they came from "was published as part of Splendour book series in 1958 by the publishers W.H.Allen London."  what a find!  and he only paid £1!  so insanly jealous.  my four-year-old self is so so so excited.

r. nichols

another find at powerHouse Books. these cut paper cards by r. nichols are super sweet and he has a million different designs. i'm partial to the nyc-themed ones (of couse) but there's one for every day, mood, or party.

tall cow

i love these cards from tall cow. they have a ton of hand printed greeting cards which are super cute and pretty simple, design wise. plus, the color palette is gorgeous. i think they're screenprinted, but some of them could easily be linocuts, which makes me think about my own work - they're really in line with the silhouette sytle i like.

i found these cards when i was shopping at powerHouse Books in brooklyn. very cool store.

i think i agree.

via: graphichug

street sign message

this was an image on gothamist a couple months ago; i think it's outside a shop somewhere in manhattan. i like that it's handpainted and a little imperfect, and the message, of course.

desmond and the tutus

anyone that knows me is already sick of me talking about how much i loved my visit to south africa. my wonderful friends there introduced me to desmond and the tutus, a rocky-indie-pop-ish band. they're exactly my style, and i think if we met in real life we'd probably be best friends. i'm also obsessed with their album cover and the posters/flyers they've made recently. i don't know who designs them, but i'm working on finding out!

sarah a. king

recently i'm super into bikes (i just bought one) and i've always been way into new york. i find it comforting the way that everyone has their own small things that make this city their own. sarah king's amazing illustration combines the two. also, her other typography work is out of control.

more of sarah's work.
via: Kate Pruitt

well said.

oftentimes i read something that i might want to make into a print later (going along with my budding interest in letterpress). so im starting a section called "well said" where i store these quotes or passages. this is one of those, taken from an article on renaming streets in NYC:

"But in 1903, a city councilman told The New York Times that a proposal to rename the Bowery...had gone nowhere because soldiers and sailors would get lost looking for the famous party zone. 'The efficiency of the Army and Navy will be impaired,' the councilman lamented. 'Change the flag of the country, but don’t change the name of the Bowery.' "

as an east village resident, i must agree.

Via: New York Times

Live What You Love

I just bought this print off Etsy and I love love love it. Recently I've been getting really into lettterpress and this small print was just what I needed. Made with love by Hikirik Studio, straight out of Brooklyn.

hello, liz.

I have an endless amount of pictures that I've seen somewhere, loved, and saved as an image file with no record of where they're from. Hence, this blog; an effort to spring clean and to have a pretty place to display them all. Hopefully it will help me figure out what to do with them all and help me make some pretty things as well.

I imagine that this blog will be a mash up of all these images; old things, new things, things I like today but may hate tomorrow, beautifully designed apartments, photos from trips I've taken (around the world and around the block), some etsy designers I've fallen for, doodles, and hey, maybe some of my own artwork thrown in. Who knows!