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.
London-based graphic designer Konrad Bednarski has created a few new vector fonts. Check them out!
Remember Aaron Wood’s social media propaganda posters that went crazy viral?
Well, he’s at it again with some new propaganda posters about some of my favorite things: chocolate, cheese, bacon and zombies!
Ok, here they are… the absolute best of the best, crème de la crème, most popular posts of the year. If you read only ONE post on Design Milk, this is it!
Jumpfrompaper handbags
Up-and-coming Taiwanese designers Chay Su and Rika Lin certainly have a bag full of tricks, literally. These may look like posters, but they’re actually three-dimensional, fully-functioning bags.
Our most popular Art posts this year tend toward the graphic in style, with clever shout outs to the social media realm as well as references to the historical. We’ve also included the crafty, like the insanely intricate cutting of leaves, the kitschy (hello My Little Pony), and some good, old-fashioned mixed media work. More than anything else, we find it’s a sense of humor that binds them.
The Positive Posters
Bisgràfic studio and The Positive Posters collaborated on a series of prints handsomely broadcasting optimistic phrases that can be downloaded from your own computer. There are iPhone and iPad wallpapers too.
Swedish designers Marit Lissdaniels and Angelica Utterberg are the creative minds behind Little Studio, a company that makes graphic prints, pillowcases, trays, and cutting boards. The duo is inspired by how children view the world and the way they think outside the box where, as they say, “a triangle could just be a triangle – but it can also be a mountain.” Their happy and colorful designs are playful enough for children but will work equally as well for adults.
Emily Dumas is a graphic designer that runs Flowers in May, a design company north of Boston. She has a series of fun and colorful prints that feature collective graphic illustrations of a particular theme. Each 11 x 14″ design is printed on high quality archival paper and is signed by Dumas.
This Typodarium desktop or wall tear-off calendar is amazing. It features 366 different typefaces from 252 designers that live in 32 different countries. Each page features all of the information about that particular typeface design and where it can be licensed. The calendar can be purchased from Slanted.
Officemilano, a small design firm located in Milan, Italy, teamed with Paolo Frello to design this collection of Quote Notebooks for Ogami, the first trademark of the Cartorama Group. The primary colors with plain black text along with the geometric shapes are eye-catching. Each notebook features a quote and has a simple, yet bold look with an overall vintage feel.
