May 15th, 2012
Artist, Krista Charles, and her shop, XA Charles, were recently featured in Etsy’s daily newsletter, and I was instantly drawn to her unique “Matchbook Landscapes” series. She combines her “love of art, travel, and secondhand shopping through people’s collections of matchbooks” to create little matchbook masterpieces, the first of which were made using vintage matchbooks [...]
May 7th, 2012
I am completely taken with the work of designer and illustrator, Teagan White, a recent graduate of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Teagan already has an impressive client list – she’s done work for Nike, Wired Magazine, Target, Coca-Cola and many other businesses, large and small – and she also has a shop [...]
May 2nd, 2012
Oh. My. Goodness. I spotted the amazing work of paper artist, Chloé Fleury, recently over on The Jealous Curator, and to say that it was love at first sight is kind of an understatement. The French-born, San Francisco-based artist’s paper creations have such incredible detail that you could easily spend hours taking in each little [...]
April 30th, 2012
I always get excited when I spot paper goods that do double duty, and Card to Art brings something so unique to the “card as art print” arena. At first, their lovely letterpress cards appear to be fairly straightforward, but when you open the card you’ll find a die-cut rectangle which, when flipped to the [...]
April 18th, 2012
I am completely digging the vibrant, modern paper goodies from New Zealand’s Fortyfive Design. This fabulous female design trio get their creativity on in a studio that overlooks the beautiful Wellington Harbour and, while the work that they do is mostly commercial, their first love is self-directed greeting card and art print projects, which allow [...]