tiny pencil letter art

This is by far one of the most perfect pictures I've seen in a long time! This is miniature art at its very best, made by American carpenter Dalton Ghetti. Apparently he's been doing this incredible handiwork for 25 years, and this piece alone with the alphabet pens took about 2,5 years, and he doesn't use a magnifying glass! I'm so mighty impressed I'm at a loss for words. I wish I could buy these pens in a frame, and I would never stop looking at them, just being mesmerized by their incredible beauty. Unfortunately Mr Ghetti has of yet never sold anything, just given things away to friends. So I guess I have to become his friend then, if that's what it takes.

I really love art that looks deceivingly simple at first glance, but at a closer look reveals complete magic in the well crafted details. I love being surprised, and I very much love when someone thinks about me finding something like this, knows I'm gonna like it and sends me a link. That's why I married the someone who sent this to me. Read more about the genius carver here.

particularly pretty penguins pt. 1

Ever since I can remember starting to appreciate book covers Penguin has been one of my absolute favorites. Their amazing sense of style is simply immaculate, and I cannot get enough of it. It could in fact be that they're partly responsible for me wanting to work in publishing in the first place, cos I so wanted to be a part of creating something desirable from the outside in. Today I discovered this great batch of special edition classics they've published in association with (RED), where 50% of the profits will go towards helping eliminate AIDS in Africa. A very good thing indeed, and I'm tempted to ordering the lot to be honest, and hang them on the wall cos they are so incredibly beautiful! Seriously, breathtaking! Being a big fan of red and black and white is of course one of the reasons I like them so much, but add the calligraphy and unusual fonts and handwriting and letter illustration to that, and I'm one happy girl just looking at them, again and again and again. Of course the titles are not too bad either, but I've already got most of them in other editions, so if I was to get any of these I guess I'd donate the old ones for charity first. Or keep them in case I want to re-read them one day, and I've nailed the new ones to the wall as art!

































Last year I got three Penguin book cover design books, and I love just flickering through them for inspiration, there's so much to choose from. There's the odd not so great cover in there too, which is almost a relief, cos pure perfection is hard to handle in my book. No pun intended. I also think that the Penguin logo is probably the best logo in the world. In the future, if I should move somewhere else and not work for Leopard anymore, and I'm not moving to San Fransisco to work at McSweeney's, getting a job at Penguin would rate pretty high for sure. Oh, the dreams, the dreams. Where would we be without them? Well, if I had followed the advice of the students counsler in my high school, I'd be working in the steel factory in Oxelösund right now. Do I have to add I'm happy I don't?

someone brilliant to brighten your day

Staffan Larsson is one of the most talented and imaginative artists around right now, in my humble opinion. If I was the creative president of the world, he would be seen all over the place! Right now he can be seen in places like this and this. I think his pictures are very musical, that's part of the appeal for me, since I'm a music maniac. And I don't just mean the fact that he incorporates musical instruments in the pictures sometimes, it's just something about the flow and use of colour and details that are so well composed in my eyes. I love pictures that I can look at forever and still find new things.


And sometimes he draws dresses that I want to wear and dance in. And write music to.
Incorporating wonderfully whimsical letters in pictures of course tickles my fancy every time.
To add up: Staffan Larsson is amazing and everybody should know his work. Pronto.

font me, please

Okay, I'll admit I say "this is one of my favorite things" or "I love this more than anything" A LOT, but please don't hold it against me. Letters have always been one of the things I've been most enthusiastic about in life. I would say since I was about 5-6 years old, and became aware of longhand writing, particularly my grandmother's. It was the most beautiful writing I'd ever seen, and I made her teach me how to write my name like that. That was the beginning of a life long obsession with handwriting. Later on I started to appreciate fonts too, and as much as I love vintage clothes, I also prefer vintage letters. Today I've found this amazing place, where all the fonts are from: House Industries. I'm awestruck, really. I wish I had lots and lots of money to spend on fonts, and that I could wear them as clothes.





ps. I would also really like to meet these Rodeo Clowns from Sweden? Where are they?