Weather or not...

Ladies and gentlemen: the prettiest weather site you ever did see.

This site uses images of weather crafted out of paper and lightbulbs when providing your forecast. Yes, please!

Happy holidays!

Happy Holidays! from callie on Vimeo.

Tangible Design

I'm having fun playing with Issuu.

Check out my thesis book, Tangible Design. And check out HOW Magazine's March 2011 issue to see some spreads from the book in the International Design Awards!

Open publication - Free publishing - More thesis

P.S. If you're reading this in Google Reader or a similar RSS feed, you might have to click through to see the embedded book. Click on the embedded image to view fullscreen!

Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes

In this freezing cold weather (complete with a little bit of snowfall), these snowflakes (made with paper and scissors, like the ones we made in elementary school) remind me of the nice parts of winter. How pretty are they? I think attempting a much more basic version is going on my project list.

Dana Tanamashi

If you haven't seen her work yet, Dana Tanamashi makes really great hand-drawn typography with chalk. Fittingly, she currently works for Louise Fili (one of my design heroes I've mentioned many a time around here).

A stitch in time

Chez Sucre Chez makes some charming little embroideries.



*this last one is for one klg.

Jon Contino

I'm liking the lettering work of Jon Contino.

Spencerian Script

I've been MIA lately due to a lot of thesis-related late nights, but here's a draft sketch of my name in Spencerian. More finalized version to come soon.

Peeps Show

Check out the Washington Post's Peep diorama contest. There are some awesome entries that must have taken forever to make. I especially like all the little details, like the clever posters on the wall in the second entry below ("Creating a Masterpeeps," which resembles a figure drawing class).

PercusiveArt

Beautiful paper art by Charles Clary. Hand-cut paper, I should add.




(via Fubiz)

Letterforms in progress

I'm taking a class on letterforms with the amazingly awesome Tony Dispigna. This week, we had to make ligatures for at least 6 different sets of initials, so I did a bunch of sketching in my sketchbook before drawing out my final chosen forms. I showed Tony some of my sketches, and here's what he did to one of the pages:

In case you can't tell, he wrote "CRAP!" across the whole thing, then circled one and wrote "great!"...and then signed his "work of art." Amazing.

Anyway, here's what came out of this exercise—for now just a pencil sketch, but I'll put it into Illustrator soon:

The world is flat

I love maps, and I'm drooling over this one by You Me and the Royal We. It even comes with push pins—200 black ones to mark where you've been, 1 red one for "headquarters," and 1 blue one for "next target."



(via Unruly Things)

Clemens Kogler

You should stop what you're doing and watch Austrian artist Clemens Kogler's awesome videos. He uses lots of hand-crafted techniques and ends up with a look unlike most motion graphics I've seen before. Take a minute to visit his site and I swear you won't regret it.

Rethink

This book and accompanying video by Rory O'Sullivan are utterly amazing. The video promotes the Rethink Scholarship at Langara College, and it's incredibly creative and well executed. Check it out below.

Rethink Scholarship at Langara 2010 Call for Entries from Rory O'Sullivan on Vimeo.

(via Kitsune Noir)

Joe Sundwall

Holy beautiful. Hand-drawn type by Joe Sundwall, who worked with Herb Lubalin. Wouldn't it be wonderful to stumble upon these in your office, as Flickr user actualidea did?

Which way to the Band-Aids?

Wow. Talk about handmade. Karen O'Leary made these map cutouts of Paris and New York...and I don't even want to think about how long they took her (or how many cuts she received while making them).



(via Swissmiss)