Birdy iPhone Wallpapers

If I were more technologically inclined and had an iPhone, I’d be all over these fabulously designed birdy wallpapers over at Lumadessa:

Via Design*Sponge.

Wordshop Wednesday: 26 Olive Street!

Welcome to the vintage brilliance of 26 Olive Street. Their old-school offerings and fabulously composed polaroid-style photos make me giddy (to an annoying degree, I’m sure). I bet they’ll have the same effect on you.

Here’s why:

(all images borrowed from their Etsy shop)

For more great images, check out 26 Olive Street’s Flickr page and their blog. Oh, and you can get all their updates by following them on Twitter HERE.

Uppercase: A Magazine for the Creative and Curious

Issue 3 of Uppercase Magazine comes out on October 1st!

If you haven’t already done so, I strongly encourage you to purchase an issue or an annual subscription to this fabulous periodical, which is chock-full of brilliant design and infinite inspiration. And the best part is: we the readers often make up the creative content! There are lots of “calls for submission” for everyone to get involved and possibly be published in a future issue.

The following are some Uppercase Magazine-related images from their website to whet your design appetite even further and propel you to subscribe:

Kate Bingaman-Burt’s illustrated version:

Felt & Wire Shop!

From FeltAndWire.com

In honor of Felt & Wire’s launch of their new online shop, I thought I’d go ahead and post some images of their fantastic double-sided wrapping paper, containing plenty of great type-related images.

Enjoy, and go visit the Felt & Wire Shop!

Get updated on all things Felt & Wire by following them on Twitter HERE.

Jessica Hische’s Daily Drop Caps

{I am so in love with Jessica Hische, I felt compelled to copy this post from my other blog}

eautiful initials by typographer, designer, and illustrator Jessica Hische, who has a newly minted Daily Drop Caps project, whereby “each day (or at least each WORK day), a new hand-crafted decorative initial cap will be posted for your enjoyment and for the beautification of blog posts everywhere.” Jessica provides the HTML code to copy/paste directly into your blog posts to take advantage of her letterific creations!

Daily Drop Caps thus far, magnified:

I am in love with these, by the way. Which you could probably guess considering all of the illuminated initials I’ve used throughout my blog posts since my blog’s inception last year. I guess you could say that Jessica Hische is kind of my hero. Visit her blog HERE.

Peter Blake’s alphabet series…

Peter Blake’s alphabet series over at Paul Stolper:

W is for Words

and E is for Eggs

Thanks to the fabulous and newly formed Friends of Type for introducing me via Twitter. Everyone go over and check out Friends of Type immediately! But be prepared: much drooling will ensue.

Paper paper paper

Today I learned that Megan Fox has a paper phobia and, thus, despises paper. I always knew that my distaste for her was warranted. Even before I saw those wretched previews for that wretched movie, Jennifer’s Body.

HOW CAN YOU HATE PAPER?!? Which makes me question whether or not she ever really graduated high school. Or junior high. Or any other school, for that matter. Because I’m pretty sure schools harbor LOTS of paper. Sometimes even collected and bound in things called BOOKS.

Anyway.

Here are the paper patterns I selected for the family tree I’m making for a friend. Cover your eyes, Megan Fox.

Papers courtesy of Paper Source, A.C. Moore, and Megan Fox’s nightmares.

Shot of the family tree, currently in progress:

More leaves to add, and then, obviously, the names.

Excitement!

French Friday: The Poster Designs of A.M. Cassandre

Perhaps most widely known for his Dubonnet poster, Adolphe-Mouron (A.M.) Cassandre is one of France’s most preeminent and influential commercial poster artists.

Cassandre’s advertising agency, Alliance Graphique, also established a number of new typefaces, such as Bifur (1929):

For these and other Cassandre images, visit HERE and HERE.