French animal collection

I got some late wonderful christmas gifts when we came back from South Africa, I thought I would share some of them. These are a bunch of lovely looking French animals that are staying with me now.

I think some of them will have to move into some nice frames eventually, it would be wasteful to just let them live in a drawer. Aren’t they just adorable?

dreamy dresses from Secret Squirrel

Found these beautiful dresses via this beautiful blog today, from Australian label Secret Squirrel. They’re all from the new collection called Art Class, and I want them all. 

This one is my absolute favorite, it is pure perfection.

floral interlude

Even though the temperature is not as bad as a few days ago, it’s still very much bleak winter outside. So apart from staying warm it’s vital to be surrounded by colours and the hope of spring. Hence this floral interlude of what I’ve brought home recently to perk myself up. This weekend I’m gonna have to get a new batch, I just can’t get enough of tulips!

Vintage Yates

I’m gonna kickstart the week with some excellent graphic design from Vintage Books, specifically a bunch of beautiful titles of Richard Yates. Their website desperately needs some new design and functions too, it is horrific in my opinion. But maybe I am just being a bit Monday-morning-grumpy?

I love love love these, so brilliantly simple and yet efficient. Simply perfect. It makes me wonder why I have never read Yates? Seems like a big mistake on my behalf, that surely must be rectified as soon as possible.

Work well done, Vintage, even with a bad website. You got me. You got me good.

The Decemberists art

It’s been a while since I did a post on the excellent graphic design of The Decemberists, so here’s a little catching up on that. Since I’ve got a thing for more geometrical shapes right now, these are the ones I love the most right now, and they are all available for purchase in their store. First one is by Nate Duval. 

Second one not credited.

Third one by Heads of State.  

Fourth one by B Methe.

Last one not credited. Hope you are enjoying them as much as I do!

Lisa Congdon knows winter

I suspected the mild winter we’ve been having up North was too much to hope for to last (although I “cheated” spending 5 weeks in South Africa ...), and now Winter is here. Winter with a capital W. The revenge of all mild temperatures and snow free sidewalks. It’s not Arctic temperatures down here in Stockholm though, it stays around -10 so far, but up north they have to handle temps down to -40. Somehow we manage, and try to see the positive side of things this time of year: at least it’s getting brighter with the snow. And also we are getting more minutes of light by the day.

I am trying to feel optimistic about that, but mostly that this work week is almost over. And in honour of my Northern heritage, and this cold season we have to survive every year, I want to share some lovely winter related artwork from brilliant illustrator Lisa Congdon. If you happen to stay in or be visiting Portland, OR, she’s got an art opening tonight at Land Gallery together with Trish Grantham.

Be sure to visit her Etsy shop too, there are some lovely deals there on prints and other goodies. When (and if) we get a bigger apartment, possibly somewhere (not too) far away in the future, I would love to get my hands on a few things from there to make some walls more beautiful.

I’m gonna go see First Aid Kit live tomorrow, and it sure will be fantastic. The rest of the time I will most likely spend drinking tea under a blanket. Stay warm and enjoy your weekends everyone!

Japanese vintage poster

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Searching for 1920’s graphic design inspiration for a book cover, I found these Japanese vintage posters instead. It’s not gonna help the book, but they got me in a good mood, which in turn will help me be inspired for the rest of the day! Ergo: win win. Enjoy the beauty!

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