Leigh Bagley creates some of most fun and vibrant geometric prints I’ve seen. The Edinburgh-based artist has a keen eye when it comes to color choices that he uses in his limited edition prints and greeting cards. The repetitive patterns and hues that he implements make my modern art-loving heart really happy.
As an owner of a newly purchased iPad, I’m continually amazed at all the things you can download and do with it. My newest pastime is reading newspapers, magazines, and anything else I can get my hands on. The tablet brings an exciting new level to the digital publishing platform that wasn’t there even a short time ago.
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For artists like Bristol, England-based Paul Tysall, it completely changes the game by making the possibility of creating a graphic novel solely for the tablet. He began to develop the story of Das Geheimnis in the fall of 2011 and with the help of Mag+, an app publishing platform for tablets, his story will soon be told using this new technology.
Tysall answered some questions for us about the process of making his upcoming graphic novel Das Geheimnis and his artistic process.
I don’t know about you but we here at Design Milk are suckers for good fonts and this one is no exception. Hungarian designer Martzi Hegedus created the Frustro typeface that was inspired by the Penrose triangle. The Penrose triangle is what’s called an impossible object, or described by the mathematician that it’s named for as “impossibility in its purest form.” M.C. Escher used it a bunch in his work.
Multi-faceted Brazilian artist and designer Matheus Dacosta took matters into his own hands to create his latest business cards. His goal was to create an artistic card that unified his work in visual arts, design, and photography. The results – an original business card featuring custom artwork.
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Damien Hirst – Xylosidase, © Damien Hirst
s[edition] is a relatively new website that sells limited edition digital art (still and video) that you can download and enjoy on your iPad, smartphone, laptop, or TV. They have a collection of contemporary artists to choose from and the prices are reasonable (starting at $8), especially since you will own that digital copy forever.
There are always plenty of reasons to say thank you and now you can do it in a less Hallmarky kind of way. Here are 30 (yes 30!) of my favorite modern thank you cards:
The Retro Dot letterpress card from Night Owl Paper Goods brings one of my favorite color combinations together: turquoise and red. The eco-friendly card is printed on 100% cotton paper made from the textile industry’s recovered fibers.
Jerome Daksiewicz of NOMO Design has created a series of screenprinted posters featuring airport runways. He’s already created LAX, ORD, MSP, JFK, ATL and SFO, with more coming soon.
Designer Anton Repponen made my dream iPhone interface, which he calls iOS ’86. I wish with my whole heart that this could become reality.
Karte Design Fabrik is back with six new card collections, two of which have tickled our fancy — the Herringbone and Stripetown collections. We previously featured Karte Design Fabriks’ Scandinavian-inspired holiday collection and I love these new collections even more. Liz Mckeown has given these classic patterns a new updated and modern twist. All cards are designed and made in Berlin, Germany and come with a thick, flecked brown envelope.
In collaboration with Blank Plank, designer Karim Rashid created the limited edition Fluke Art Plank Skateboard. Blank Plank is a collaboration of street culture and art in which they seek out four artists per season to create limited edition artwork for them. Rashid lends his designer magic to the project with his signature bright colors and striking pattern. The skateboard is reasonably priced at $60 and only 100 of this design are being made.
