Jen Cotton and Jessica Floeh made this super helpful walkthrough for converting your hand-drawn illustrations into vector format, useful for silkscreening, designing your own stationary/paper products, or laser cutting! They show you how to scan the file using Photoshop, then show a few different tracing options in Illustrator. More: 101: Adobe Illustrator
The sixth Food Design competition just announced their call to entries: Participation in the competition is free and is open to all those who want to put to test their abilities in projects linked to the theme of Food Design. Particularly architects, professionals, artists, craftsmen and designers creatives, high school students, university students and students […]
For those of you who have beat your head repeatedly against the archaic wall of finite system-only web fonts, relief is here. Tired of Arial? Bored with Times New Roman? Fatigued by Verdana? Insulted by Comic Sans? Me too. Typekit to the rescue! Typekit is a San Francisco web app company produced by Small Batch […]
This wooden puzzle from the Maker’s Market is a delight. The natural wood colors, the amazing detail, and the complex forms of mushrooms all contribute to a piece of challenging puzzle art. I think Xylocopa Design has created something that will capture the attention of mycology lovers and puzzle solvers everywhere.
I love a good juxtaposition of traditional and modern. And I love dishes. This exhibition of all star graffiti artists and their take on tea sets is yet another chance for me to love both at the same time. Within the graffiti context, All City intends to re-interpret some of the most classical Portuguese porcelain […]
This letterpress paper house kit brings out the little girl in me. I think I could probably spend an afternoon playing with this sweet setup! Or, if you wanted to be generous, it would be a fabulous housewarming gift. (Via Swiss Miss)
Comes perforated and in two aspect ratios for your convenience and customization! [via Core77] LampGustaf’s Stitch Lamp
