Print of the Day > MisNopales

Happy Día de los Muertos for this weekend... wishing I was in Mexico!

Mariachi Calaveras - Limited edition Gocco serigraph

Uppercase magazine > novel posters

Anyone looking for a weekend project?! this is a fun one. Though picking my favourite novel might take all weekend! Extremely loud and Incredibly close is definately up there... along with What I loved... and In the skin of a Lion... and The people of paper... yep, this could definately take all weekend!

Moon Rocks Magazine // Issue 5

hooray... another issue of Moon rocks entered the world today! This time it is the Sea issue - a salty beaker full of short fiction, illustration and stunning photography. Features an interview with the not-so-spritely marathon river swimmer Martin Strel who recently swam the amazon in 90 days with no nets and only his son in a little dingy alongside him! crazy nut-nut!

The moonrocks troupe have outdone themselves with a bigger and better than ever before issue... looking forward to scouring its pages in depth over the weekend... go find it here

Jan Reymonds // book arches

Stumbled on Jan Reymonds' amazing book sculptures while trundling through flickr.

The majority of these are part of "24 heures du livre" in Romainmôtier, Switzerland. Jan uses unsold books from the annual bookfair to create these magical arches and hanging sculptures at the nearby Romainmôtier Abbey Church. As far as I can tell there is a new one each year... next time i'm in that lovely part of the world i'm going to hunt them out! To read more about the installations go here (beautiful photos all by TimTom)

bookophile lights

loving these lights from margarita and ludwig over on Design Sponge today... perfect library glow bugs!

Maaret // promises like piecrust

I have fallen a bit in love with these collages by design student, Maaret of Visual Notes. They are inspired by the song 'promises like piecrust' (carla bruni) Dont' they look like they're alive still ... just going about their own cute lil thing (the crying dog brings a twitch to my eye)?!

Mariscal // Design Museum Exhibition

I don't know alot about Spanish designer Mariscal (yet) but his exhibition at the Design Museum in London looks so bright and fun and can't wait to go see it/play in it this weekend... He is responsible for the Barcelona Olympic mascot and also recognise him from this cookbook cover too... but his wealth of work looks to be spilling over the edges with character in this space so am hoping to discover many more treasures. There is a blog all about the exhibition and some great images of the setting up of it too... & aren't all these letters brilliant...

Print of the Day > Marcus Walters

'Ship' - a 3 colour screenprint

Satsuma Press // packaging

Always on the lookout for ways to use my Japanese masking tape... these wrapped up Satsuma Press calenders are dressed almost as beautifully as whats inside! She has used glassline paper sealed down one full edge.

(all photos by Satsuma Press)

Royal buffet // garlands

... if whimsy was a paper decoration... these would be it!

Beautiful garlands are the treasures made by Mollie Greene (of royal buffet) are for sale here

bird bags

This made me all warm and fuzzy on a frosty mondee morning... so beautiful!
(found via Frankie)

Pretty Mail calligraphy

I'm not usually a huge fan of calligraphy... but this little assortment has changed my mind... sort of has a modern twist (and lots of lovely swirls and swooshes)

Mag Nation arrives in Sydney

Today I was really excited to find out that a wonderful-looking MagNation shop has opened in Newtown, Sydney... can't wait to visit (in fact i think i'd quite like to go and live in it for a few days!!)

Print of the Day > 2nd Coming

'Splash of New York'

Tealight towers

these tealight covers by A Little Hut are beauties....

Blog World Wednesday > my daily reads

Sometimes the enormity of the blog world boggles my mind... there are so many wide eyed and talented people all over the place finding and posting up inspiring things or creating great new work. I find the list of blogs I'm admiring gets larger with every week and I feel as though soon it will fill all my days! I thought I should celebrate this...

So, stay tuned next week (and every wednesday thereafter) for inspiring links to other worlds and a few words from the mouth of the creator. To start off though I thought i'd show a few of my favourite daily peeks.

Mint ::: written by Durham (US) based print designer, Ellie Snow. Filled with lots of great print design, stationary, fashion, photography and some of her own lovely work from Hello Tenfold too.
Black Eiffel ::: written by Rachel, a designer and photographer from the USA. Filled with Interior design and decorations, Letterpress and stationary, Fashion and Photography.
and of course Design Sponge*::: (The very first blog I ever read I think) Grace and her team of creative folk always give us good things... DIY projects, City design guides, Sneek peeks into houses, guest posts and loads more... but you probably already knew that?!

Dolci Odille // wedding invitations

Dolci Odille's stationary is some of the most fun, adorable and creative I have seen yet. Their projects have popped up individually around the web and i've admired them many times before but didn't realise it was all the handiwork of just one husband and wife team! Then this morning Black Eiffel showcased some of their wedding decorations and I finally found their website... what a treat for a rainy thursday morning.

Their own wedding stationary
(& go have a look at the wonderful white paper pompoms)

Free wedding stationary

Dolci Odille's blog is full of fun too and see their work here
(all beautiful photography by Our Labour of Love)

Photography at Hello Tenfold

Hello Tenfold is the stationary shop run by the creator one of my favourite design refuges, Mint. Ellie has just added all these beautiful photos to her shop... I want to go there... to that place with the wild flowers and dreamy skies!

Print of the Day > Ink & Spindle

Abit cheaty but today's print is actually fabric... but isn't it lovely!!
'Rooftops in Olive'

Lillianna Pereira // Collages

American artist & designer Lillianna Pereira makes THE most beautiful collages... lots of them !! It's easy to tell she has been influenced by books and stories. See more on her flickr set here

Calender season (part 2)

Following on from part one... here are some more desk adornments for 2010:

Orange Beautiful perpetual calender

Kitty Rogers teeny tiny calender

Blanca Gomez calenderYaelfran printable calender

Ink & Wit letterpress calender

Alicia Bock - Paris: a love story calender