Material Archive

ACME DeLuxe Ice-Cream Bricks

This is a real store sign! Unfortunately, it's sits on what is now an antique store on Queen West, next to Local Kitchen where I had dinner tonight.

Honestly, the concept of an "ice cream brick" store named "ACME DeLuxe" seems too good to be true – it's right out of a Bugs Bunny cartoon...  :-)

Reminded of my love for Parra today:

Just ordered this print as I have loved it for ages.

Am a fan of huge Parra's work and hope to collaborate with him one day on the right project.

Bernard Maisner : Master Calligrapher

Talking Tradition on Nowness.com.

A Brief History of Title Design

From Art of the Title

Lovin' Wayne White

(aw cmon)

(no you cmon)



(boo fucking hoo)

See more of Wayne's work here.

Vintage Labels

Found here.

Vanity Fair: A new edition

Love the combination of pink and green. More here.

Ork does Toronto's 178 neighbourhoods

  


 


Yay! How wonderful that the lovely and talented Jenny Beorkrem has designed one of her fabulous Ork posters for and of Toronto.

After placing my order for a hard copy to frame, I took the liberty of highlighting all of the areas I've called home over the years – it's kind of neat to see it all mapped out like this.

Below is my favourite Ork overall simply for it's great composition.


 

Beware of Artists...

Pilot Handwriting: My font – as taken by my webcam!

Try it out here.

Letterheady: vintage stationery from famous peeps

1979

1923



1955


See more here. Via SM

Ha:

By Jo-Anne Balcaen

Barcelona Diaries: ChocoLate Orgániko

 

So in addition to shoes, and eating out, I really splurged on good chocolate. ChocoLate Orgániko is another example of an excellent brand creating wonderful and unexpected flavour combinations like Lemon & Red Pepper chocolate, Orange and Cardamom and dark chocolate sprinkled with coarse salt from Ibiza, amongst others. Of course, the lovely packaging doesn't hurt either!

Barcelona Diaries: Chocolat Factory

 

 

I brought back a bunch of Chocolat Factory products for my staff and colleagues at work – the chocolates taste as good as the packaging looks. Wish we had a location here in the Big Smoke.

Lizzie Hunter turns SPAM in to art

 
Illustrator and hand-lettering artist Linzie Hunter used her annoying SPAM emails to inspire a series of charming typographic posters – see more here.

Arianna Orland Retro Remix Posters

Buy them at Paper Jam Press

Art Directors Club Tees

Yup.

Buy them here.

Wonderful Design Resource: Counter-Print

 

In their own words: "Counter-print.co.uk is dedicated to the promotion and sale of Art and Design related material. Often out of print or hard to find, we aim to celebrate both forgotten gems as well as those heralded designers that we all admire."

Charming Vintage Business Cards

I gasped when I saw these – such a nerdy graphic designer thing to do but I think even those not in the "biz" can appreciate how charming these are. Look at the penmanship and the amazing little boat illustration! It appears that people used to just pick a precut card and paper style and have their names either stamped or hand lettered on to each with simply the town they were from or a title. There was only one card that had a year which was 1876. Personally, I can't imagine not being thrilled with the title of Cheese Maker or Confectioner. Maybe I should change my card to "Consumer of all things Confection and Cheese Related." Sounds good no? It's dead-on accurate at least.  ;-)

This amazing collection can be seen in detail on Flickr as posted by Ink Ling.

Martelli Pasta Packaging

I saw this pasta at St.Lawrence Market this past weekend – isn't it great? Fellow designers know I love yellow, so it's no surprise that it caught my eye. The combination of the bright crinkly yellow paper (with a great hand-feel), the charming script type and hand-drawn pasta shapes are lovely and give it a real handmade quality which is perfectly consistent with their brand story. Martelli is a family owned and operated business in Tuscany.  (image via Fudies)

Neat!

Dessert & Typography

Just liked the look of this. Found here.

Renaissance Man Jeff Rogers

So much amazing work to look at by Jeff Rogers.

Great movie title stills collection

 This site has an impressive collection of film credit stills. Have a look here.

Ok, nice try...

Some fun with words by WeMakeWords. I crafted two lines for you:

Lovely Pudding Packaging

By designer Yvonne Nieweth